Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Cathedral Meaning
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Cathedral Lyrics
In the morning I feel pretty good
So I dropped into the luxury of the Lords
Fighting dragons and crossing swords
With the people against the hordes who came to conquer
Seven o'clock
In the morning here it comes I taste the...
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#1 top rated interpretation:A beautiful tune with several possible levels of interpretation. The protagonist is in Winchester Cathedral, a wondrous, magnificent place showing Man's love of God, full of history and strange vibrations. He is struck by the horrible irony of religion, that it has led to many wars and death. Then, he is swept right into the middle of it. The death of the soldier was the same day as his birthday! From death comes life, yet we are so small. Maybe he is dead in a way, as a spirit "high above the altar" looking down upon himself.
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#2 top rated interpretation:This song is a drug song: I feel pretty good; I taste the warning; seeing things so clear this way; I'm flying; stumbled through the door; I am high; high upon the altar, high
He's hallucinating and coming to deep, troubling insights about his religion. -
Graham Nash actually explains the songs meaning in the liner notes to the CSN box set.
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It's about a woman gone wrong hiding in the church under grace and a man still trying to love her in gods name.
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