Into The Mystic ~ Van Morrison - Music Mondays

Number four on my Amazon playlist is Van Morrison's Into the Mystic. This song is number four because the theme fits nicely with the Airstream Song before it, both in the theme and the way the music makes you feel. Like you want to just run free and be a gypsy of sorts. The mystical side to it fits nicely with the song that follows it If You Ever Did Believe.

I really don't know how to explain or to describe this song to someone that has never heard it other than to listen to it is to feel as if you are part of something else. Something magical and beautiful. It's just such a bewitching song musically and lyrically.

It's interesting to try to find history on a song that you like and see how it came into being or was received when it was first released. Especially if it's an older song. A quick google search brings up a Wiki page for the song. I found the following bit interesting.

"Morrison remarked on the song and how its use of homophones lent it alternate meanings:

"'Into the Mystic' is another one like 'Madame Joy' and 'Brown Eyed Girl'. Originally I wrote it as 'Into the Misty'. But later I thought that it had something of an ethereal feeling to it so I called it 'Into the Mystic'. That song is kind of funny because when it came time to send the lyrics in WB Music, I couldn't figure out what to send them. Because really the song has two sets of lyrics. For example, there's 'I was born before the wind' and 'I was borne before the wind', and also 'Also younger than the son, Ere the bonny boat was one' and 'All so younger than the son, Ere the bonny boat was won' ... I guess the song is just about being part of the universe."[2]"

How different would the song have been if it was called by another name, or the lyrics although same are changed by simply changing the spelling, and thus the meaning.

As someone that loves the ocean, the lyrics "smell the sea and feel the sky, Let your soul and Spirit fly" just call out to me. You long sometimes to break away from your every day life of going to work and coming home, wash, rinse and repeat and just let go and see what happens and what will be if you just wander about doing whatever comes up.

What songs do you have on your play list that move you in a spiritual way of sorts? That call to your soul and makes you feel like you could just stop and change your life on a whim?