I just found this site while looking for the lyrics to this song. Very cool! This is my first post...
I suppose I should preface this by mentioning that this is probably my favorite Zombies' song. I love the sentiments expressed, the composition, arrangements, the liberal use of mellotron and the vocals are sublime.
I guess my feelings are similar to those of Durang0 in the mentioning of the nature of ideals.
To me, in more specific terms, I think it also alludes to the nature of what Maslow described as "peak experiences". In his book Religious Aspects of Peak-Experiences (1970), he mentions: "feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision, the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before, the feeling of great ecstasy and wonder and awe, and the loss of placing in time and space".
We can all probably recall moments when an experience seemed to be perfect...a time when it seemed our place in the universe was that of harmonious and total integration. Unsurprisingly, for the composers of this song, certain musics provided this sensation.
Often, we'll go to that same place, listen to that same piece of music, et al, and try to duplicate and recapture that moment of transcendence and find that generally, it can't be done.
However, it doesn't mean that there aren't other equally exquisite moments waiting for us...I hope.
I just found this site while looking for the lyrics to this song. Very cool! This is my first post...
I suppose I should preface this by mentioning that this is probably my favorite Zombies' song. I love the sentiments expressed, the composition, arrangements, the liberal use of mellotron and the vocals are sublime.
I guess my feelings are similar to those of Durang0 in the mentioning of the nature of ideals.
To me, in more specific terms, I think it also alludes to the nature of what Maslow described as "peak experiences". In his book Religious Aspects of Peak-Experiences (1970), he mentions: "feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision, the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before, the feeling of great ecstasy and wonder and awe, and the loss of placing in time and space".
We can all probably recall moments when an experience seemed to be perfect...a time when it seemed our place in the universe was that of harmonious and total integration. Unsurprisingly, for the composers of this song, certain musics provided this sensation.
Often, we'll go to that same place, listen to that same piece of music, et al, and try to duplicate and recapture that moment of transcendence and find that generally, it can't be done.
However, it doesn't mean that there aren't other equally exquisite moments waiting for us...I hope.