when looking at this song you need to take it in the context of the album as a whole. Days of Future Passed, is an album that charts a mans life across a day. Additionally, you'll find listening to the entire album that the spoken stanza at the end of the song is only a part a poem spoken in the opening song of the album, a mere reprise (more on this later). In the process of talking of a man's life they finally reach the end, the "night", the white satin spoken of is not a bed sheet as some might think, it is in fact the lining of the coffin in which we lay at the end of life, an ending that goes on "never reaching an end". This song is actually the long lament of a man looking back on his life, regretting things he didn't do, chances he didn't take, particularly of never making known his love for woman he once knew. Now, back to that bit about the spoken lament at the end, the final five lines are the same that start the album, symbolizing that our endings are the same as our beginings, or to put it another way, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust". For anyone who only knows the song, I recommend that at least once in your life, you take the time to take it all in, in full context of the entire album start to finish. It helps to put it all in perspective.
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may have been the authors’.
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may have been the authors’.
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! (The “nights” would be the perpetual darkness from within the grave.) The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may...
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! (The “nights” would be the perpetual darkness from within the grave.) The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may have been the authors’.
when looking at this song you need to take it in the context of the album as a whole. Days of Future Passed, is an album that charts a mans life across a day. Additionally, you'll find listening to the entire album that the spoken stanza at the end of the song is only a part a poem spoken in the opening song of the album, a mere reprise (more on this later). In the process of talking of a man's life they finally reach the end, the "night", the white satin spoken of is not a bed sheet as some might think, it is in fact the lining of the coffin in which we lay at the end of life, an ending that goes on "never reaching an end". This song is actually the long lament of a man looking back on his life, regretting things he didn't do, chances he didn't take, particularly of never making known his love for woman he once knew. Now, back to that bit about the spoken lament at the end, the final five lines are the same that start the album, symbolizing that our endings are the same as our beginings, or to put it another way, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust". For anyone who only knows the song, I recommend that at least once in your life, you take the time to take it all in, in full context of the entire album start to finish. It helps to put it all in perspective.
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may have been the authors’.
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may have been the authors’.
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! (The “nights” would be the perpetual darkness from within the grave.) The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may...
@xsailor367 Nice write up. Another contributor pointed out that the writer of this song actually mentioned it was satin sheets for a bed that inspired this story (given to him by a lover). But I like the interpretation of the satin lining of a coffin better! (The “nights” would be the perpetual darkness from within the grave.) The fact is that any interpretation is a two-way process and it doesn’t necessarily mean the authors intention outweighs the value of the listeners or readers interpretation. What is on the page matters most, and from that standpoint, your version trumps what may have been the authors’.