A moment where, if only for a split second, things make absolute perfect sense. I know I said it already but hope you have a great Labor Day weekend! And I hope sometime in the near future you have one of these moments.
Now I'm going to enjoy the video over and over again.
Ever had a song speak to you? Ever feel like you were going along just fine, only to be stopped in your tracks and diverted down another path? A walk down memory lane, maybe? Yeah. If it's at all possible, I love the song more. So you can imagine my surprise that one of my all-time favorite songs happens to be about a romantic encounter.and a maritime disaster.and mentions my name in it. This ambivalence is underscored by frequent allusions to nausea."-The text is excerpted from Tim de Lisle's Lives of the Great Songs. The hero is a callow juvenile, far happier with a book than risking the emotional bruising of relationships. The song's recurring metaphor is of maritime disaster, and a parallel is drawn between romantic conquest and the allure and peril of the sea. The whiter shade of pale is what one looks like after drowning. Personally, I think this song is about the sinking of the Titanic. As he becomes more drunk, his impressions of his unfamiliar partner become confused by stray thoughts, fragments of childhood reading and his own faint-hearted aspirations. General CommentFirst off, most Procol Harum lyrics have something to do with the sea. A nervous seducer sustains his courage with alcohol. "The song explores what it means to be wrecked, in more than one sense of the word. Then I spent about an hour sifting through random yahoo! answers to find a reputable source for the meaning of the song. what on earth do these crazy lyrics mean? I've included the lyrics from azlyrics here so you can take a look: As I started writing, my mind started wandering. I set up with an all Annie Lennox playlist and, of course, A Whiter Shade of Pale linked up first.
They dont actually mean anything, of course. This morning I was in need of some new music to write to. Half a century on, listeners still debate the meaning of the cryptic, overblown lyrics to A Whiter Shade of Pale. A song might be both a blessing and a curse, especially for those who penned and perform it, and no-one knows that better than PROCOL HARUM who stormed onto the music map just before the Summer of Love with A Whiter Shade Of. As you may know (if you've been reading my blog since last April), I'm obsessed with anything, everything Titanic and have been since I was little. A Whiter Shade Of Pale One of the greatest rock enigmas gets dissected but not entirely deciphered as befits a legend. A Whiter Shade of Pale (the Annie Lennox version) has always been one of my favorite songs.