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Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)

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Released
  
21 November 1969

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Label
  
Threshold

Recorded
  
July 1969

Length
  
3:33

Writer(s)
  
Justin Hayward

"Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)" is a 1969 song by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues, from their album To Our Children's Children's Children, a concept album about space travel. Due to its long name, the song is often referred to on compilation albums as simply "Gypsy."

The song lyrics, related to the album's space travel theme, describe a traveler who is "traveling in panic all direction blind, aching for the warmth of a burning sun, freezing in the emptiness of where he'd come from." The lyric suggests that the traveler may never be returning home to earth as he is "Left without a hope of coming home."

Personnel

  • Justin Hayward: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
  • John Lodge: bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Mike Pinder: mellotron, backing vocals
  • Ray Thomas: bass flute, backing vocals
  • Graeme Edge: drums, percussion
  • References

    Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time) Wikipedia