Daily Cascade

As I Try to Decipher a Song

Prompt:
Knights In White Satin By The Moody Blues.
Write about this song in your Blog entry today.

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Such mystery! I can't even imagine a knight in white satin. If I saw one, I'd probably run away from him immediately.

So, since I very much like its drooling music but can't force my imagination on it, I think there must be something autobiographical about this song, with deeply personal experiences or emotions tied to it. Off the top of my head, I'm guessing the themes of the song could be longing, love, or loss. (As usual?) The knight might be the songwriter's inner world, or psyche, maybe.

I can also sense a feeling of nostalgia for a mythical past that could only exist in the songwriter's mind, referring to an ideal lost world or age where heroes roamed and love was the strongest force in life.

Yet, after viewing the lyrics of the song, the reference to Galileo and the stars made me feel confused. Then, I thought, possibly, the referral was to the Renaissance and its humanistic ideals. Such ideals might refer to what is scientific as well as what is mystical. I don't know how this has anything to do with the songwriter's psyche, but each to his own, in this matter.

I, therefore, am daring to say that this songwriter had difficult relationship struggles, and he wrote this song as if a confessional.

And confessional though it might be, the song's melody soars splendidly and through it, the songwriter's vulnerability and inner world is implied beautifully and suggestively.


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Edited to Add: Now this song is playing inside my head and I can't get rid of it!