"So, in your impulsive compulsive disorder response, the names on their foreheads are a new song that they could only learn?"
Pay attention -> a song AS IT WERE a new song = it appears like a new one, but it is not, it's just a lost one, it would seem? (message). -------------- They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundredandforty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.
