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The Waterboys – “The Whole Of The Moon” (1985)
En helt enastående singel från det skotska bandet med Mike Scott i spetsen.
I en intervju med Songfacts har han berättat om bakgrunden:
”I wrote the song when I was 26 years old, and I was discovering that there was so much more than I had ever known. There was so much more to learn than I’d even been hinted at in the culture I’d grown up in. I had a strong sense of wonderment about that, and I realized there were people who had vastly more information in their imaginations and experiences than I had. And so that’s what inspired that song.”
Mike säger också att den inte handlar om en speciell person, trots rykten om att den handlar om alla från C.S Lewis till Prince.
Det är gruppens basist, Anthony Thistlethwaite, som gör det explosiva saxsolot.
“I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon”
Jorgens spellistor 