General Comment I love this song. It will always be one of my favourites. When I was 11 I heard the song on the radio, and even though I knew I hadn't heard it before in my life, it sounded strangely familiar. I told my mom and she gave me this really funny look.
I asked her why and she told me that when she was pregnant with me she played that song ALOT. My first piece of music I ever heard. And I was in the womb. No Replies Log in to reply. There was an error. Love the song anyway :] butterflykiss84 on September 12, Link. I found this song about a woman witnessing the death of her Lover and mourning his loss.
I see you in heaven one day TinyTim on December 21, Link. General Comment "Caught in the middle of " just signified a crowd of people. The only reason is the number is because it rhymes with the next line! I don't know if any of you have the extended version, but it makes a lot more sense if you have. A lot of people think its a tribute to John Lennon. No one quite knows if thats true. I suppose its just whatever you make of it.
In the '80s, Oldfield was prolific in his output with his most popular song being another haunting song called Moonlight Shadow. Tubular Bells is more commonly known as the theme to The Exorcist. As creepy as it was, the single edited down from its minute! It was Oldfield's only charting song in the U.
Oldfield had a worldwide hit in with Moonlight Shadow that hit No. While Englishman Mike Oldfield is the key musician, he's barely in the video. Moonlight Shadow was inspired by the death of Harry Houdini and the attempts of his wife to communicate with him after his death.
I stay, I pray See you in heaven one day. Four a. I watched your vision forming, Carried away by a moonlight shadow. Stars move slowly in a silvery night, Far away on the other side. Will you come to talk to me this night, But she couldn't find how to push through. Far away on the other side.
Caught in the middle of a hundred and five. The night was heavy and the air was alive, But she couldn't find how to push through. Carried away by a moonlight shadow In this song, it refers to a man, who was difficult to see in the night because he just looked like a dark shadow.
This man killed him, so he was "carried away by a moonlight shadow". There were many people around the two men fighting people, he says.
She saw they were fighting but she couldn't get near them because, although she tried to push people to pass, she couldn't, so "she couldn't find [out] how to push through". She saw his vision forming, so after he died, she could see him as an image coming out of the mist. The song is inspired in the film "Houdini", where they were trying to contact Houdini after he died, so this song is talking about that, the moment when she sees his ghost before her.
Oldfield was finally asked about its meaning in an interview for his web site in "Well, it was a hundred and five people, just signifying a large amount of people, and presumably it was a hundred and five rather than a hundred and four or whatever because "five" rhymed with the next line! Moonlight Shadow Lyrics The last that ever she saw him, carried away by a moonlight shadow He passed on worried and wanting,carried away by a moonlight shadow Lost in a river last Saturday night, far away on the other side He was caught in the middle of a desperate Submit Your Interpretation.
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