What do you think Twilight means?

Electric Light Orchestra - Twilight Meaning

Album cover for Twilight album cover

Song Released: 1981


Twilight Lyrics

The visions dancing in my mind,
The early dawn the shades of time.
Twilight crawling through my window pane.
Am I awake or do I dream,
The strangest pictures I have seen,
Night is day and twilight's gone away.
With your head held high and your...

  1. anonymous
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    Jan 24th !⃝

    This song is about the gratitude Jeff Lynne had for his good friend, Stephen Joseph Woollam, whose name was incorrectly spelled as Woolam on the band's first album. The Time album is a concept album, and it parallels Eldorado, the album Woollam secretly contributed to, in many ways. One example is Prologue and Epilogue, as compared to Eldorado Overture and Eldorado Finale. Another example, specifically in this song, are the lyrics "with your head held high", and this is direct reference to the lyrics "and my head is high" in Poor Boy (The Greenwood) on Eldorado.

  2. anonymous
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    Mar 15th 2019 !⃝

    I only meant to stay a while, and, you came down to me from the open skies,,seems like an other world visit with advanced beings


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