My favorite piece of recorded music is a live version of When a Blind Man Cries that begins with Barber's Adagio for Strings (Played by Jon Lord or an actual orchestra?). If you haven't heard that version, you really are missing out on a musical masterpiece.
This song, I thought, was about loneliness. Ian Gillan uses the metaphor of himself being a blind man; not necessarily shut himself off from the rest of the world, but shut off by others for being blind.
Gillan does mention this in Child in time, as die kleine Hexe mentioned. As I said, I believe the blind man to be a symbol of isolation and loneliness at the cruelty of the world.
My favorite piece of recorded music is a live version of When a Blind Man Cries that begins with Barber's Adagio for Strings (Played by Jon Lord or an actual orchestra?). If you haven't heard that version, you really are missing out on a musical masterpiece.
This song, I thought, was about loneliness. Ian Gillan uses the metaphor of himself being a blind man; not necessarily shut himself off from the rest of the world, but shut off by others for being blind.
Gillan does mention this in Child in time, as die kleine Hexe mentioned. As I said, I believe the blind man to be a symbol of isolation and loneliness at the cruelty of the world.