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@[Major:48051] Valor Agreed! And while waiting for our leaders to do something about Putin, about the climate crisis, about razor wire cutting down refugees at the border, about gun massacres in schools… I definitely relate.
With all the partisan hate and dissension over green M&M’s, drag queens and Disney unfortunately the best we can do is not make it worse |
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| Traffic – John Barleycorn Lyrics
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@[sepultura1987:46386] well put! You included most of what I was going to write, plus a couple added details. Very interesting, thanks for the info! |
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| Traffic – John Barleycorn Lyrics
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@[DemonsWrath:46385] that’s the point. The imagery does indeed sound like medieval torture - it’s both a reference to the time the original was written and man’s inability to conquer it. |
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@[ImNeilYoung:46384] I didn’t know that. As a recovering alcoholic who had a lot of problems with booze, I don’t doubt him. Thanks much for the info! |
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| The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin Lyrics
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@[Derf:26072] Its not just you, and its no coincidence. Le Morte de Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory has a line that is almost identical to the album Days of Future Past, and there is a knight on the bottom of the album cover. It was a play on words and intended to invoke that image. It got most of us,whether admitted or not ;) |
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| The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin Lyrics
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@[dgkfhjlffjfjhlfhja:26071] Ditto you racist twit! You don’t have the intelligence or insight to interpret anything like this. All you know is hate and your skewed belief in your own supremacy |
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| The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin Lyrics
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FYI I did find this from actual history:
The Knights in White Satin were an order of warrior monks who first organized in the 11th Century to protest the rough undergarments of the time. Shunning the coarse wool habits and hair shirts of other monastic orders, the Knights went on pilgrimages and Holy Crusades, never reaching the end. They traveled bedecked in white satin, green silks, and Chantilly lace but then this comfort-seeking order fell on hard times. Enemies such as the Knights Templar and the Saracens realized their swords and spears would easily pierce the effeminate robes of the Knights in White Satin so by the end of the 13th Century they were all but extinct. Only later were the Knights to return, with a renewed and more sinister existence in the United States in the early years of the 20th Century before once again vanishing from history.
Could be the inspiration? |
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| The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin Lyrics
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@[DanielHolbrook:26069] I agree with Lynxmuzic. Please get help, reach out to someone. Talk to one of us.
Even if you’re screwing around for attention you still need help! |
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| The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I agree Nights is a play on words and brings to mind Knights - that imagery is intentional. As mitch11573 points out there is the image of the knight on the lower part of the cover. Plus the album name Days of Future Past is very close to a line from Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur.
As for the meaning it seems obvious it is pain from unrequited love. I believe the satin sheets symbolize his memories of their nights together which he cannot get out of his mind. But it could be the lining of a casket as he contemplates his suicide. |
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