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Crystal Lyrics
do you always trust your first initial feeling
special knowledge holds truth...bears believing
i turned around and the water was closing all around like a glove
like the love that had finally, finally found me
CHORUS:
then i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
drove me through the mountains
through the crystal like and clear water fountain
drove me like a magnet
to the sea
to the sea
how the faces of love have changed, i'm turning the pages
and i have changed, oh but you, you remain ageless
(repeat chorus)
special knowledge holds truth...bears believing
like the love that had finally, finally found me
then i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
drove me through the mountains
through the crystal like and clear water fountain
drove me like a magnet
to the sea
to the sea
and i have changed, oh but you, you remain ageless
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I just get this awesome picture from Stevie's lyrics.."I turned around and the water was closing all around me like a glove, like the love that had finally found me." Gah, just imagine that.
I agree, it is quite an underrated song. Don't you just love Christine's snythesizer piece at the end?
christine?
christine?
Christine McVie, John's wife. And yes, the synth is excellent.
Christine McVie, John's wife. And yes, the synth is excellent.
When I hear this it seems to be about the end of a love relationship from long ago that still meant a lot the narrator.
I have to add my own vote of awesomeness for the imagery in the lines:
"I turned around and the water was closing all around Like a glove Like the love that had finally found me"
To me the image of water closing all around is one of impending disaster - that you're about to be engulfed by waves or floods...and then saying like a glove - meaning that the heartbreak fits him like a glove, as did seemingly this love that had finally found him...only to end, sadly.
The lines:
"How the faces of love have changed turning the pages And I have changed, oh, but you, you remain ageless"
..also speak to this interpretation quite strongly - the faces of love changing meaning moving on and becoming involved with different lovers as time passes. I have changed and you remain ageless is talking about how a memory of somebody doesn't age, even though we do.
Being driven through a "crystal-like and clear-water fountain" and the whole "then I knew" speaks to a kind of clarity and realization about the relationship...and "through the mountains" can be interpreted as through difficult and rocky terrain emotionally, finally "to the sea" which as rivers all flow to the sea is generally a sense of finality and resolution.
It's a pretty sad song in that light...espcially when you can relate to it, as I'm sure most people of a certain age probably can...?
An underrated song, to be sure.
fits so well in practical magic...it gives you the feelings of being content. beautiful song
It's a beautiful love song. He knew from the start that love was present. She never waivered in her love for him. Eventually he made it back to her (he's turned many a page) and he is now a content believer. Gosh that sounds corny but, HEY, it's beautiful.
Underrated indeed. This is without a doubt my favourite song on the album.
It's one of Stevie's best songs she's ever written. And it is about her father and she wrote it for him after his tough but lucky heart operation - that what she said in an interview. And she added also that every time she wrote a letter to him she finished it with line "you remain ageless".