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Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away Lyrics
So down and down and down and down
And down and down we go
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua
World is so very dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear and man is full of cheer.
That man is full of cheer
I could hear that man is full of cheer
Lord thank you
And down and down we go
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua
World is so very dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear and man is full of cheer.
I could hear that man is full of cheer
Lord thank you
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all together an amazing song. beautiful really.. especially that one guitar part, which i think personally is the most beautiful sound ever.. spanning precisely ten seconds (from 0:46 to 0:56)
amazing.. long live Jimi.
my favorite part lasts from 3:55 to 4:13. it reminds me a lot of the game Tenchu for some reason.
lyrics are wrong, it goes "i can hear Atlantis full of cheer"
This is weird, on my copy of the cd this was still part of 1983, anyway, the combination of the two make one of my favorite songs ever.
hey hobart, the same thing happenned to me, on my CD this is together with 1983. this song is just weird noises and guitar feedback (the 'seagull' sound). very strange indeed....
On electric ladyland, this part is on 1983.. ( A Merman I Should Turn To Be ) I think this part is what Jimi ( and Catherina ) reached after they walked away. The song (nr. 12 on electric ladyland ) that comes after this is beatuful. After you heared this music, it is very relaxing, the sounds of the sea. Jimi uses the sea a lot in his lyrics, I think it meant a state of peace in his mind, for him.
atlantis full of cheer is the lyric from 1983...(a merman should i turn to be).
although i've always felt that this song was sort of a continuation of the prior.
and... it's the albatross
well, sometimes, artists put songs on albums that go together, this song and 1983 go together, this song finishes off 1983, in 1983 he is about to go under the sea, and this is him being under the sea, living at peace. the same for rainy day dream away, and still raining still dreaming.
Don't listen to this song! It makes you heavy daydreaming and floating...... Seductive. So beautiful. Makes me sad that reality isn't like that at the end...
"I can hear Atlantis full of cheer"