"Starless and Bible Black" is, as theosarkouda writes, a quotation from Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood"....
"It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."
Under Milk Wood is set in the fictional Welsh town of Llareggub. Although it appears to be almost, but not quite, a plausibly Welsh place name, the fact that it's reverse-spelled "Buggerall" is not irrelevant.
Songwriters will sometimes assemble words simply because seem to fit together. Apart from missing the point, interpreters of those lyrics achieve precisely that.
They've probably done the same thing to writers before Dylan Thomas, and they certainly persist today.
"Starless and Bible Black" is, as theosarkouda writes, a quotation from Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood"....
"It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."
Under Milk Wood is set in the fictional Welsh town of Llareggub. Although it appears to be almost, but not quite, a plausibly Welsh place name, the fact that it's reverse-spelled "Buggerall" is not irrelevant. Songwriters will sometimes assemble words simply because seem to fit together. Apart from missing the point, interpreters of those lyrics achieve precisely that.
They've probably done the same thing to writers before Dylan Thomas, and they certainly persist today.