Given that the song was recorded at Shangri-La Studios in southern California, I think some folks feel it's about that specific place. To me, it's a statement made to a soul mate- that night is their heaven, and should they never have another, what they do have will sustain them. I think it is about the passage of time, the wheel of heaven turns without end, and so does their love. To me 'tonight your beauty burns into my memory' ranks right on up there with 'kiss you through the bars of a rhyme'. I also think ' I think my heart would break in two- I kiss your cheek and keep my self from waking you'. A master of lyrical revelations.
Given that the song was recorded at Shangri-La Studios in southern California, I think some folks feel it's about that specific place. To me, it's a statement made to a soul mate- that night is their heaven, and should they never have another, what they do have will sustain them. I think it is about the passage of time, the wheel of heaven turns without end, and so does their love. To me 'tonight your beauty burns into my memory' ranks right on up there with 'kiss you through the bars of a rhyme'. I also think ' I think my heart would break in two- I kiss your cheek and keep my self from waking you'. A master of lyrical revelations.