A whiter shade of pale

[Yvonne N.]

Smaddy please tell me what dis song is all about.

I used to love this song so much but I was listening to it on the radio this morning and realze seh mi neva know what di song was about...mussi the melody...

[Nylah]

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i love that song too but you know i never did think/pay attention to what the lyrics did mean


<span style="font-style: italic">ah soh Shandra ole</span>

[Nylah]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">interpretation:</span>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This song is obviously about death from an overdose of drugs. The drug referred to in the song is coke, but it could be any drug overdose. The miller is obvious. A miller is any type of moth that has white, powdery wings. Look it up. The first verse of the song obviously describes the trip the author is on. Ever been on one? This is exactly it. Could have written this verse if I'd known the words. And who said there was not readily-available coke in the late 60s? You apparently didn't live in the 60s. [Who? The webmasters of this site didn't miss much of the 50s]

Think about it. When is something a whiter shade of pale? Ever seen a corpse in a coffin? Death is when you are a whiter shade of pale. Nothing on earth is the ghostly color of a corpse.

&quot;And so it was that later as the miller told his tale that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale. She said, 'There is no reason and the truth is plain to see.' But I wandered through my playing cards and would not let her be one of sixteen vestal virgins who were leaving for the coast and although my eyes were open they might have just as well've been closed.&quot;

The &quot;she&quot; here is death. There is no reason for the author's death. The author here is being mocked by the very drug (death) that enticed him. The author's fate was out of his hands (... I would not let her be) when he became addicted to the drug. His eyes were wide open, but they might have well been closed. Eyes wide open but might have been closed? That's addiction, people.
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[Nylah]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Or:</span>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Whiter Shade of Pale was never designed to be anything.It's not existentialist babble. It's just a set of impressions. It has no meaning other than what you care to imbue it with.

Keith Reid has said that himself. &quot;I ws trying to paint a wpicture with words.&quot;
It' makes it as unpretentious as possible. It's just a set of images
and he intended it to have no rational explanation whatsoever. It pays to know the details about a piece of music or a set of words before accusing it of self-importance.</div></div>

[Yvonne N.]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

i love that song too but you know i never did think/pay attention to what the lyrics did mean


<span style="font-style: italic">ah soh Shandra ole</span>

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Yes.



...like do one Nylah nah get ole one day...:lang slurpy double pump kissteet:

Thanks anyway.

[Nylah]

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never mind I am probably not much younger than you