Angelsea

General CommentCat Stevens is not one to burden listeners with unnecessary obscurity. Angelsea is a straightforward tribute and love song to the Earth's ocean. The masterstroke of this song lies in its celestial opening which instantly notes how the waters of our planet are unique, precious and spiritual. Verses that follow celebrate specific aspects of the seas that inspire and cradle life. This song is an underrated wonder. There is no other like it. I do wish some lyric site would lay out the chorus of this song. It's likely a syncopated fa-la-la, but my brain tries to hear words whenever I listen to this. P.S. Just love the drum work in Angelsea.

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General CommentFunny song, but good. Reminds me of mythology for some reason.

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General CommentEver since I was 16 and first heard this song, it was the song I always felt would describe my feelings of the woman of my dreams.

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Song MeaningQuantum Mechanics 101.
"Seven evening stars" = solar system.
"dance thru the window of her universal house"= the threshold of universal consciousness.
"her voice a crystal echo" = all matter and energy are waiting vibrations.
"So patiently awaiting for your ears to behold" = to become real only when they are observed.
"She ripples on the water" = waves of probabilities
"Leaves diamonds on the shore" = create reality
"Fish from every distance watch her ocean cellar door" = for all living things
"A mistress to magicians" = is quantum entanglement a magic trick?
"and a dancer to the gods"= or gods entertainment?
"Her clothes are made of rainbows" = photons refracting thru a prism
"20,000 tears shine thru the spaces
of her golden ochre hair" = molecules in time and space
"My conscience will follow you forever if you meet me everywhere" = consciousness is everywhere.

Therefore,
Angelsea = a celebration of universal consciousness.
Among his first use of the "electron" synthesizer.
The rhythmic oscillation of electrons is what holds this song together.
Amazing!

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General Commenther cloths are made of rainbows(rainbows have tiers of color. red orange yellow green blue violet,, )
and 20,000 tiers shine threw the spaces of her golden ocer hair(her cloths are made of 20,000 tiers of rainbow)(her hair is a golden ochre color kind of reddish gold)

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General Commenti actually asked him candidly when my friend interviewed him on texas radio kzew back in the 70's maybe 60's

but i was shot in the head and i cant remember now.. maybe it will come to me. a terrible wast
let me guess..

She moves like and angel


And seven evening stars


Dance through the window


Of her universal house

He voice a crystal echo
"her voice as being a crystal echo,, lies humming in you soul when y ou are not consciously aware of its actual existence there in your soul..
but it is there in your soul and it is not bothering you. but you somehow subconsciously know its there and you treasurer it's existence and endeavor to perpetuate it,, to perpetuate the existence of the thought of actually perceiving "her voice" which is a "crystal echo">

Lies humming in your soul

<( this voice of her's is actually a beautiful sound that you have waited to hear all your life perhaps maybe even some congenital manifestation inhabited from Adam and eve or something maybe since the time of the verry creation of man by god)..>


So patiently awaiting
For your ears to behold



She ripples on the water


Leaves diamonds on the shore


And fish from every distance


Watch her ocean cellar door


Her breath a warm fire
In every lovers heart




A mistress to magicians


And a dancer to the gods
And a dancer to the gods


Her clothes are made of rainbows


And twenty thousand tears
< the rainbow cloths she wears ,, actually have 20,000 actual layers(tears) of these actual rainbows..(not tears t hat you cry, but like tears on a Terraced farm,, like levels on a slope( to prevent the land from washing away from the erosion cause by rain to unimproved farm land) >

Shine through the spaces
Of her golden ochre hair
anyway, the hair must be very long extending to her feet and the light from the rainbows that the "dress constructed of rainbows" emits, can be seen threw the spaces between the locks of her super beautiful colored hair" (rendering an effect i guess)>

Ooh my babe I want you


And on my life I swear


My conscience will I follow you forever
If you meet me everywhere


Yes if you if you meet me everywhere


(i love this song too cat is so dynamic.. his melody and strumming style and lyrics are very good, arguably the best and one of the best and such pure thoughts)

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