van morrison astral weeks record store day

This song to me, is about him questioning life, love, and how differences can often alter life's path. as to question does she love him so much that she would put him on replay? Like an old record she loves too much to throw away. would she still do it all the same? Would she come find him? Would she even want to? Would she kiss his eyes and love him for the man he is? Or would life be different? Would she lay him down in silence, in a soothing calm, to be reborn to come back into her life over and over for internity. and how if he got into the very depths of her thoughts, where all the peculiarities of life that could alter her genuine train of thought were gone. It was the same year that saw The Beatles (or the 'White Album') and the first album by The Doors. It’s a jazzy pop record that slips in and out of time signatures with little regard for what was then cool or hip. My interpretation of the Astral Weeks is pretty simple to grasp though. Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is an anomaly in 1968.

The chord structure of the song is quite repetitive (and I believe that enforces his lyrics even more), but the complexivity of the words is what makes the song so beautifully poetic and eternal. Ain't nothing but a stranger in this world

Van morrison astral weeks record store day