Its as if the moonchild has been released from his/her prison and met a sun-child/sun. The dreamy, far out, spacy music sort of matches the mellow mood of this song and perhaps also provides to the theme of loneliness.įinally "In the Court of the Crimson King." The first line of this song is "The rusted chains of PRISON MOONS is SHATTERED by the SUN". The sun child seems sort of bright, far away, like some sort of enlightened person the moonchild just wants to meet. Then the song's refrain is that the moonchild- the darkness-shrouded lonely child- is waiting for a Sun child. But I think they tell of "moon child" doing all these things in their loneliness like "talking to the trees" and "dreaming in the shadow of a willow" and "playing hide and seek with the ghosts of dawn." All of these activities are dark and moody and sad and seem to invoke a feeling of loneliness. I'll come back to "epitaph" as I think it is the hardest to connect to this theme of loneliness but the line "will no one lay the laurel wreath when silence drowns the screams" i think might imply loneliness, as silence, dreaded by the lonely man, drowns out his screams although screams are usually louder than silence (sort of hard to explain).Īnyways, Moonchild is a very imagery-filled song telling about a "moon-child." To the listener the first time, perhaps the lyrics sound like nonsense. So far the album seems to be reflecting on loneliness and the burdens it brings upon people. the wind cannot hear." The narrator is speaking sadly because no one listens to him, as if he has no friends. I talk to the wind also speaks of a person who is lonely. The discordant/heavy music matches this theme. I have not analyzed the lyrics much on this song but Shizoid Personality Disorder is a personality disorder that is "characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, sometimes sexually apathetic, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, and emotional coldness." With this interpretation, the song clearly points towards a person who is disconnected and lonely, perhaps sad. The album starts out with 21st Century Shizoid Man. Personally, tonight I had the idea that perhaps this song and the whole album are based on the theme of Loneliness. All interpretations of the song are correct if that is what they speak to the listener, regardless of what peter sinfield actually meant for them to me. I think CrimsonKarl's post connecting the song to the emperor of rome and pointing out the colors is a good post. Undoubtedly this song and the whole album has some beautiful imagery of medieval stuff and that time period among other things. I think some of your guys opinions are really good.
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