This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Magnu horse with golden mane
I want your help yet once again
Walk not the Earth but fly through space
As lightning flash or thunder's race
Swift as the arrow from the bow
Come to me so that no one can know,
Sunbeams are my shafts to kill,
All men who dare imagine ill
Deceit that fears the light of day
Fly from the glory of my ray
Good minds open and take new light
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
A burning brand was seen to fall,
It lit the darkness of the hall
The flying hoof beats circling in,
Come to me and let us spin
Sunbeams are my shafts to kill,
All men who dare imagine ill
Deceit that fears the light of day
Fly from the glory of my ray
Good minds open and take new light
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
(repeat)
I want your help yet once again
Walk not the Earth but fly through space
As lightning flash or thunder's race
Swift as the arrow from the bow
Come to me so that no one can know,
Sunbeams are my shafts to kill,
All men who dare imagine ill
Deceit that fears the light of day
Fly from the glory of my ray
Good minds open and take new light
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
A burning brand was seen to fall,
It lit the darkness of the hall
The flying hoof beats circling in,
Come to me and let us spin
Sunbeams are my shafts to kill,
All men who dare imagine ill
Deceit that fears the light of day
Fly from the glory of my ray
Good minds open and take new light
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
Until we diminish by the reign of night
(repeat)
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Magnu Lyrics as written by Robert Newton Calvert Dave Brock
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Sam bennallick fancy seeing you here remember me? from deviant art this is great good pic btw of 'davy'. Hawkwind smash all other bands
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Sounds like a warrior calling his battle horse. That's what I'll always hear when I listen to it anyway.
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This entire album is a psychadelic experience, overshadowed by the great works of Pink Floyd, but excellence in its own right. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out what the album is about.
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I'd have to disagree, for me Hawkwind at their best are a head above Pink Floyd. The 'Warrior on the Edge of Time' album is one of my all-time favourites.
This actually is referring to the frequency of light from the sun. "Magnu, horse of golden mane," refers to the sun; fast as light the voice beckons the sun to send him it's power that he might smite the men of darkness who fear the power of the light. It talks here about those "dark" beings who usurp the pure light of the sun and polute it with their evil intent of keeping we humans as slaves, far removed from our birthright of glorious lordship over this planet, and third dimensional realm.
Lyrics are drawn from "Hymn of Apollo" (1820) by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The first six lines are identical (so near as not to quibble) to a magical incantation used to summon a magical horse found in a Slavic folktale published in the 19th century, called "The History Of Prince Slugobyl; Or, The Invisible Knight"
“Magu (sic), Horse with Golden Mane, I want your help yet once again, Walk not the earth but fly through space As lightnings flash or thunders race. Swift as the arrow from the bow, Come quick, yet so that none can know.”
gutenberg.org/files/25555/25555-h/25555-h.htm
Just found this reading folktales last night :-D Since Brock wrote this one, I'm guessing Moorcock ain't the only one who riffed off folktales