What are you listening to.................RIGHT NOW!!!

I'm felling a little Mellow Joe tonight as I have just raided our hidden Christmas supply of Baileys that was pon pain of death never to be touched. It's gorgeous over a block of ice and warms the cockles of your heart just like our LeeSA. The Tempo is smashed at the 2.15 mark.



 
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Last one from me tonight .. Quality personified.

At the 1:29 mark Steve Hackett’s electric guitar wails and the rest of the band bring up the intensity. At this point there is less than one minute until the song segues into the album’s finale with the song It. The desperation in Gabriel’s vocal is nearly heartbreaking. Steve Hackett’s guitar adds to the melancholy felt during this end portion. It almost sounds like his guitar is weeping. Phil Collins is at the top of his game here and throughout The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Not content to just display his considerable skills on the drums, Phil always had a musical approach to the drums. His drumming is not merely keeping the time, his playing elevates the somber mood of the song.

“It” is the general puzzle of the album. The implication for what ‘it’ means is enlightenment. The cave referred to in “In The Cage” is a reference to Plato’s The Allegory Of The Cave which is a story about enlightenment. Once Rael rides the rapids out of the cave, he realizes that he is John (the personification of Rael’s good side) and becomes enlightened. Something to note about the lyrics is that there are 32 descriptions of ‘it’. This is a reference to the chamber of 22 doors in which there were was a maze of 32 doors with only one leading out. However, it was revealed by Lilywhite Lilith in the song of the same name that none of the obvious doors lead out. She goes down a passage to the waiting room. This may be an implication to read between the lines for the real answer.


In the rapids/ It.

 
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