Monday, April 25, 2011

A Whiter Shade of Pale

My isong is by Procol Harum, and was made in early 1967, which was soon to be called "the Summer of Love" and when hippies and psychedelia were at thier highest (haha, thats an accidental pun).  The meaning of the lyrics to my song are very complex.  The first few lines are about dancing somewhere, and then doing cartwheels, but it says they are on solid ground, but the the narrator is feeling seasick, which is one of the many paradoxes in this song.  The rest of the next lines eem to have ro correlation or meaning.  Finally the chorus seems to have the most meaning, and makes sense.  It goes, the miller told his tale, and her face just first ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale, so the millers story scared the girl, and her face turned even whiter than thought possible.  The rest of the song lyrics also seem to make no apparent sense and don't seem to have any specific order.  These lyrics also have the same randomness as in the first part of the song, so I think the lyrics are just nonsense lyrics, similar to The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol in Alice in Wonderland.  The band members probably did this on purpose, because this was a time where young people were rebelling against the norm, and tried to break from the establishment by having lyrics that make no sense, but still had a popular song. 

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