Background... http://www.songfacts.com/detail.p

Background...

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1131

.......and images....are everything. Ken Burns used the song over the credits of "The Vietnam War" episode "Things Fall Part".

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/e...episode-6/

And the title of that episode comes, of course, from.....

https://www.shmoop.com/things-fall-apart/epigraph.html

And to the regret of the board moderator and its theme, the following lyrics did not make it into the final cut:

Quote:

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Paul - Eindhoven, Netherlands

Listening to Glenn Hughes version of this song and loving it. In it's original and various interpretations it has a dreamy-trippy kind of fairy tale quality.

Eb - Fl Keys, Fl

She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love [see note, left, about this verse + its opening]
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed

~ these are the missing verses that we not recorded because they were advised that they wouldn't get air time if the song was too long.
Suzen - Calgary, AB, Canada

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