Strange Meeting

Can anyone say,,, genius? The lyrics to this song speak for themselves. I only wish that one day I might be able to express myself in such a poetic and musically intertwined way.

I totally agree, this song is incredibly poetic. There's a lot of melancholy but it never gets depressing. I think it's interesting how he describes his memories. He remembers the look she gave him, the night breeze in his face och tracing the foam in the water, but he doesn't remember what she said. That seems to be true of a lot of memories, you remember feelings, sounds, smells och looks, but it's often hard to recall what you were talking about.

Wonderful - one of my favourites. Nick Drake is a poet in every sense of the word.

incredible.

In the new recording or this song, featured on the Family Tree album, Drake actually speaks about the song.

I think that what makes him such a wonderful poet is the fact that his lyrics are always so unpretentious, just pure inspired poetry, moved by the simple desire of creating something beautiful. He didn't even think of himself as a poet.

"Strange Meeting" is the title of a Wilfred Owen poem about an infantryman who has a dream in which he meets a man he has killed. I don't see much of a connection, but Nick would very likely have read the poem. Of course, the name may have older antecedents that i don't know.

He covered this song, very well indeed, but did not write it (and he tell us this in the bootleg album "Family Tree"). Thing is there is NO info on the net about who wrote the original. Can someone who knows please post this.