At first listen, I thought it was just a song with medieval fantasy themes. But after watching their live TV performance of it, I think it could be a little deeper.
The Merlin actor poses like he's casting a spell and there is a fake web around his hands. Perhaps it's just how the costumers were able to represent magic emanating from his hands. But there is the expression "cast a web of lies".
I am also tying this interpretation to the themes in The Beginning, with Merlin representing the establishment. The idea that we have become too comfortable while Merlin casts his spells. I am perhaps leaning on the Twain representation of Merlin as a farce or manipulator.
Likely this song is just going with the album theme of dreaming. But The Beginning doesn't seem to fit that idea so neatly--likely a social sub narrative is in play, was popular at the time, like what Jethro Tull used to do.
At first listen, I thought it was just a song with medieval fantasy themes. But after watching their live TV performance of it, I think it could be a little deeper.
The Merlin actor poses like he's casting a spell and there is a fake web around his hands. Perhaps it's just how the costumers were able to represent magic emanating from his hands. But there is the expression "cast a web of lies".
I am also tying this interpretation to the themes in The Beginning, with Merlin representing the establishment. The idea that we have become too comfortable while Merlin casts his spells. I am perhaps leaning on the Twain representation of Merlin as a farce or manipulator.
Likely this song is just going with the album theme of dreaming. But The Beginning doesn't seem to fit that idea so neatly--likely a social sub narrative is in play, was popular at the time, like what Jethro Tull used to do.