This song is getting me thrilled. It's surely a massive masterpiece and that's why I'm so frustrated that I don't know what he actually meant writing this. As far as I'm concerned he wrote if after the journey through Soviet Union, being in Warsaw just a while (don't know how long though) on his way back to England. So it may have been the things he saw in USSR that moved him, you know, like for example Siberia landscapes, or things he saw both in there and in Poland, I mean, the way people lived at that moment, the way they were treated and so on. Because when is comes to music it's sure that it's based on the song of the Polish folk choir which he heard on a CD that he bought during his stay in Warsaw. Anyway, the origin of the lyrics will remain a secret forever I guess.
This song is getting me thrilled. It's surely a massive masterpiece and that's why I'm so frustrated that I don't know what he actually meant writing this. As far as I'm concerned he wrote if after the journey through Soviet Union, being in Warsaw just a while (don't know how long though) on his way back to England. So it may have been the things he saw in USSR that moved him, you know, like for example Siberia landscapes, or things he saw both in there and in Poland, I mean, the way people lived at that moment, the way they were treated and so on. Because when is comes to music it's sure that it's based on the song of the Polish folk choir which he heard on a CD that he bought during his stay in Warsaw. Anyway, the origin of the lyrics will remain a secret forever I guess.