On the cd Dark Side of the Moon after Time, in the same track is another song: Breathe reprise. The last lines of Time are:
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say
Then the music doesn't stop but continues in the numder: Breathe(reprise):
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
The tune is exactly like Breathe. But why is it in the same track? Anyone knows?
Breathe (reprise) ?
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My original pressing of ye olde vinyl, Breath (reprise) is listed as a seperate track - and I have always treated it as such. In modern days (films are in colour now) a CD player displays the track number - giving the impression that the reprise is the same track.
My first editon pressing of DSOTM displayed them as one track (I put it down to sloppy mastering). Each subsequent CD edition doesn't seem to have corrected this mistake.
I believe that Time and Breathe(reprise) are two different tracks entirely.
Previous posts just indicate Breath(reprise) position in the album's concept.
In the olden days, we had to lift the stylus to the correct position (visually by looking for wide shiny bands on the record) - hard to do with one with no real visible gaps
Sorry for being old(ish) - I can't help being a vinyl junkie/audiophile.
My first editon pressing of DSOTM displayed them as one track (I put it down to sloppy mastering). Each subsequent CD edition doesn't seem to have corrected this mistake.
I believe that Time and Breathe(reprise) are two different tracks entirely.
Previous posts just indicate Breath(reprise) position in the album's concept.
In the olden days, we had to lift the stylus to the correct position (visually by looking for wide shiny bands on the record) - hard to do with one with no real visible gaps
Sorry for being old(ish) - I can't help being a vinyl junkie/audiophile.
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Was that an idea introduced for the CD? Its just that the album was finished when Storm presented them with the artwork options so the band probably hadnt even thought of spectrums until they saw the classic image we all know and love today, and if they had thought about spectrums then they would have probably been thinking in terms of 7 colours not 6 as Storm actually missed a colour out by mistake (or so he says anyway) so it doesnt seem to tie in, and Breathe reprise was there from the very first performance before the album had been properly shaped so I can only guess that its there as a means of circulation as someone else suggested, or it might be some really straight forward thing like the band thought that it sounded really good and worked???. It all gets so confusing, can anyone shed any...erm....light (sorry) on this?David Smith wrote:Sorry to spoil this conversation but it's cause they wanted to use 6 colours of the spectrum to contain lyrics but couldn't exactly do it with 3 songs being instrumental.
Mystery solved
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Oh, sorry, i misread the question.
I dunno why it goes back to breathe, i guess it's to contrast the message of the reprise with the original breath's message. One's about living a life where you conform e.t.c while the reprise is about choosing how you live, this shown because the character decided to ignore religion.
I dunno why it goes back to breathe, i guess it's to contrast the message of the reprise with the original breath's message. One's about living a life where you conform e.t.c while the reprise is about choosing how you live, this shown because the character decided to ignore religion.
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"Far away across the fields, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken agic spells"
Iron bells being associated with religion, the faithful being the people who go to the church or where ever and the softly spoken magic spells being what they are told. The narrator ignores riligon so that's why he calls them softly spoken magic spells.
And don't just take my word for it, Roger said that in Uncut this month.
Iron bells being associated with religion, the faithful being the people who go to the church or where ever and the softly spoken magic spells being what they are told. The narrator ignores riligon so that's why he calls them softly spoken magic spells.
And don't just take my word for it, Roger said that in Uncut this month.
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