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Twilight Double Leader Lyrics
Get down now and roll around me
Get down now and be my queen
Get down now and roll around me
Chinese dance around the queen.
Twilight double leader
Comin' home to feed her
Charioteer - already been here
Determination structure.
Have you heard about your brothers and your sisters
Livin' in the mountains...free from the city life.
You can feel it in the streetime
Hunin' for the lifeline
Twilight all around you - around & around you
You can make it in the nighttime.
And if you're lost midway - third of the week
She gonna find the right way to get to you.
Twilight double leader
Comin' home to please her
Walkin' on the water..disappearing daughter
Citadel redeemer.
Ain't got time to hang around - movin' slow...
I just got to go
I just got to go
I just got to go.
Get down now and be my queen
Get down now and roll around me
Chinese dance around the queen.
Comin' home to feed her
Charioteer - already been here
Determination structure.
Livin' in the mountains...free from the city life.
Hunin' for the lifeline
Twilight all around you - around & around you
You can make it in the nighttime.
She gonna find the right way to get to you.
Comin' home to please her
Walkin' on the water..disappearing daughter
Citadel redeemer.
I just got to go
I just got to go
I just got to go.
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Double Leader...? Airplane was into 'Jeffersonian' ideals: Liberty, revolution. Varieties of political and esoteric suggestions eventually turned up in many Paul Kantner songs.
"Twilight" refers to a time without the light of Sun or Moon- when our vision is uniquely gentle, and the Earth itself seems luminous.
Contrasting this, 'Double Leader' likely refers to a Jungian or Confucian ideal of esoteric marriage, the monarchy of King and Queen- ie, a balance of elements!
No wonder this song is so powerful.
"Get down now,& Roll around me, be my queen" suggests possibilities of dynamic play within the royal marriage (or more specifically 'rolling': American blues slang for intercourse)
some of the remaining lyrics offer a counterpoint familiar to Airplane fans: First we hear a reference to ancient colors or events- then a reference to change, a vast sense of time eroding previous empires. Hints of a similar politically-oriented contrasts appear in many of Airplane's earlier songs, particularly "When the Earth Moves Again"
but then . . .
In Surrealistic Pillow's liner-notes discussion of the process of writing "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds", Marty Balin is quoted as having included interesting word combinations found in commercial publications such as newspapers.
and "Double Leaders" are used in game-fishing- it's a style of rigging (ie knotting) lures
so, a "Double Leader" is also both a euphonious and a previously extant term