Barclay James Harvest

Nova Lepidoptera

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Silver, drifting on high
Deep range star lords
Rebel land of black night
Float by your stars.

Mistress of fear see me towards always
Nova bright shine far beyond all time.

Beings of the fourth kind
Night time wanderers
Ring world timeless in ice
Deep inside gods

Mistress of fear see me towards always
Secret mood of corridors in hyberspace
Nova bright shine far beyond the barriers of time
Take me through the laser beams
The moving sands of Mars to see

Silver, drifting on high
Deep range star lords
Rebel land of black night
Float by your stars.

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songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012

Galadriel

Suicide?

In Memory Of The Martyrs

After The Day

In My Life

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by betch252

2y ago

No comments? This is one of the greatest songs ever written. The tune is ethereal and borders on the sublime or magical. The morse code at the beginning spells out UFO and, the lyrics are pasted together titles from John Lee’s book shelf full of sci fi books.

He’d employ the same trick on their more famous “Titles” using titles from Beatles tracks to create a new song.

My Dad had a huge record collection which included everything BJH ever did. One day, I wanted to “discover” a new band to listen to and this was pre-web so, I ran a bath, selected an album at random, lowered the needle on the b-side and got in the bath. The idea was that I’d have to listen to the entire side so I might find something cool whereas, if I’d been able to stop it then I might do so and miss a hidden gem somewhere later on the album.

Imagine my sheer delight when Nova Lepidoptera slowly faded into my consciousness. The beauty took me away.

I DID get out of the bath but only to set the needle back to the start of this track and listen again.

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