# Nights In White Satin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399 "2017-08-22T20:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/41 "2017-08-24T20:48:32Z")
I’ve said it many times before but I’ll say it again, - Stan Rogers **Lies**. Is this the face that won for her the man Whose amazed and clumsy fingers put that ring upon her hand … **She’ll look up in that weathered face that loves hers line for line** To see that maiden shining in his eyes And laugh at how her mirror tells her lies The bolded line is sung so gently but passionately – beautiful. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D79XOc1vKzQ/hqdefault.jpg "Lies Stan Rogers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D79XOc1vKzQ) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/42 "2017-08-24T23:47:40Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The whole song, really. But the lines that especially get me describe the oncoming storm: “The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound As the waves broke over the railing. And every man knew, as the captain did, too 'Twas the witch of November come stealing…” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/43 "2017-08-25T00:01:13Z")
“Cat’s Cradle” _When I hung up the phone it occurred to me, my boy was just like me, he’d grown up, just like me_ “Time” \*Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. \* Alice In Chains “Would”…the part of “having run too far to get home” resonates with me as a teen runaway, plus the song being about the heroin abuse that ultimately killed Lane Staley adds another dimension of…creepiness? _Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone? And left you here alone? Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone? And left you here alone? If I would, could you?_ ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/44 "2017-08-25T03:27:17Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > The whole song, really. But the lines that especially get me describe the oncoming storm: “Fellows it’s been good to know ya” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/45 "2017-08-25T04:18:39Z")
I was a long time before I caught the full significance of the last verse of “Taxi” by Harry Chapin. I guess I’d never listed to it closely enough: \*It’s strange, how you never know But we’d both gotten what we’d asked for Such a long, long time ago You see, she was gonna be an actress And I was gonna learn to fly She took off to find the footlights And I took off for the sky **And here, she’s acting happy Inside her handsome home And me, I’m flying in my taxi Taking tips, and getting stoned I go flying so high, when I’m stoned.**\* Yep, they got it! ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/46 "2017-08-25T05:50:12Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > One of few albums that you _must_ play all the way though. If you mean _Days of Future Passed_, I agree, it’s a great concept album. But IMO an even better one is _To Our Children’s Children Children_. It doesn’t have mega-hits like _Tuesday Afternoon_ and _Nights in White Satin_, but it has some really good songs, like _Floating, Gypsy_, and my favorite, _[Out and In](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PY2ciintOo)_. And the total is a coherent story about space travel. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/47 "2017-08-25T06:33:35Z")
Ian Gillan blowing the needle off the record singing Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say) on the Jesus Christ Superstar album. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/48 "2017-08-25T21:59:54Z")
Try A Little Kindness is just as relevant today than when released it in Oct 1969. That was after the violence at the Democratic Primary in Chicago, Aug 26-29, 1968. Dr King was assassinated April 4 1968. Kent State occurred May 4, 1970. Brad Paisley’s updated cover of Glen’s classic hit number 1 hit. It was #1 in Canada too. I can’t help but think the unrest and violence was on Glenn’s mind. > [@](#): > > Don’t walk around the down and out > Lend a helping hand instead of doubt > And the kindness that you show every day > Will help someone along their way > > You got to try a little kindness > Yes show a little kindness > Just shine your light for everyone to see [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KKyPBJKTccc/maxresdefault.jpg "Brad Paisley-Try a Little Kindness") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKyPBJKTccc) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/49 "2017-08-26T01:41:31Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > If you mean _Days of Future Passed_, I agree, it’s a great concept album. But IMO an even better one is _To Our Children’s Children Children_. I always loved Graeme’s description of a rocket launch as having “the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes.” ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/50 "2017-08-26T02:19:24Z")
I was never a fan of Nights in White Satin (and count me in as someone who always thought it was “Knights”), partly because I thought it was overwrought adolescent schlock, but mostly because everyone around me thought it was the deepest, most beautiful song every written, and so I had to hear it all the time. It was the theme of the local public high school’s senior prom the year I graduated; I think that that was the first time I was truly glad my parents had sent me to private school instead of letting me go to high school with all my friends. ETA: I hope that doesn’t count as thread shitting; I don’t mean it that way. I laugh now to think how strong my opinion was on something as ultimately insignificant as whether I liked the same song everyone else did. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/51 "2017-08-29T16:32:50Z")
I never, ever, ever thought I’d have something good to say about a Kesha song, but here I am. When she hits that high note in “Praying,” I get goosebumps every time. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/52 "2017-08-29T17:18:51Z")
I love that album but “Night” had already been overplayed for me by the time I discovered it (the album, I mean), so it was not my favorite. I love “Tuesday Afternoon”. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/53 "2017-08-29T22:42:37Z")
The titular white satin is what is lining the coffin that one is buried in. So the song is about death. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/54 "2017-08-29T22:56:56Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > The titular white satin is what is lining the coffin that one is buried in. So the song is about death. Nope. Justin had a bed with white satin sheets, and a girlfriend who he was going through tough times with. This is all about love and dispair. And, how the hell could anyone think this was about knights? Do people listen to lyrics? Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/55 "2017-08-30T00:27:06Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Nights In White Satin is one of my all-time favorite songs. When Justin Hayward sings the lines… > > And I love you > Ohhh how I love you > > …it sends chills down my spine. Those words sound like they come right from his heart - like he really means them. Absolutely. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Annie Lennox sings “Into the West” with extraordinary emotive power, I think: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shdiTRxTJb4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shdiTRxTJb4) Amazingly good. I’m always deeply moved by the whole song “Mad World” by Gary Jules (featured in the film ‘Donnie Darko’.) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/56 "2017-08-30T17:48:50Z")
The Walker Brothers - No Regrets - it means so much more when you have been there - also this qualifies in the great guitar solo of all time starting at 4:05 Moira Kerr - MacIain of Glencoe [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bjomiY0VOgk/hqdefault.jpg "Moira Kerr - MacIain of Glencoe") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjomiY0VOgk) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/57 "2017-08-31T01:56:03Z")
The one that does it for me is “Guenevere” from **Camelot** : _In that dawn, in that gloom More than love met its doom In the dying candle’s gleam Came the sundown of a dream Guenevere, Guenevere In that dim, mournful year Saw the men she held most dear Go to war for Guenevere_ ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/58 "2017-08-31T19:20:10Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > …it sends chills down my spine. Those words sound like they come right from his heart - like he really means them. Same feeling I get from Simon & Garfunkel’s “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her.” They have at least a couple of recordings out there; the one I’m thinking of is a live recording that appeared on (at least) their Greatest Hits album. Garfunkel’s voice and the accompanying guitar both run the range from the most profoundly gentle touch up to almost tearful overwhelming passion. [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Emily,_Whenever_I_May_Find_Her) [Lyrics](https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tlawqsuxalzy64a5ubffsxyptru?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics) [The song itself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAZ0kHpJ0KI) ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/59 "2017-09-06T20:00:02Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Same feeling I get from Simon & Garfunkel’s “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her.” They have at least a couple of recordings out there; the one I’m thinking of is a live recording that appeared on (at least) their Greatest Hits album. Garfunkel’s voice and the accompanying guitar both run the range from the most profoundly gentle touch up to almost tearful overwhelming passion. > > [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Emily,_Whenever_I_May_Find_Her) > > [Lyrics](https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tlawqsuxalzy64a5ubffsxyptru?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics) > > [The song itself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAZ0kHpJ0KI) My mom always listened to this album when I was a kid. I forgot all about that song. It is beautiful and very similar to Nights in White Satin. Thanks for reminding me of this song! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/60 "2017-09-08T16:50:29Z")
I remember its being misspelled a lot as ‘Knights’ back in the day. Including places like jukeboxes, if memory serves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399.md?page=4)