Considering that this is one of the classic mush-rock songs of the seventies (making Dave Barry's list of Worst Songs Ever), it's a little odd that the words are actually about death spooky death in the old West. Add in the fact that the opening and closing solo piano sections are based on a piece by Scriabin, whose philosophy of music made him seem strange even compared to other twentieth-century classical composers (who all in all tended to be a pretty strange bunch), and you have a resulting cultural artifact that is more than a little bizarre. But what the hell--it's pretty, isn't it? And the creator of this video added some pretty pictures.
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