To-day I listened to Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent's
Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, and I noticed a couple things.
"In My Mind a Miracle"
This is the first track on
As Far As I Can See (which was the first album for which Blunstone and Argent used the Zombies moniker again). I'd previously noticed the importance of sight in the lyrics, with lines like "No longer blind, I see because of you" and the hint at the classical blind seer, like Tiresias, (and the Zombies'
Odessey and Oracle) with "In you I found my Odyssey and Oracle" (in the liner notes, they've finally fixed the spelling). I'd noticed all of those visual things, but I'd neglected to notice the Latin root of "retrospect" in the line "The things that I've done in / Retrospect have caused me pain." In Latin,
spectare is the verb
to look at.
"Hold Your Head Up"
This is something that should have been obvious, but in the "Hold your head up" chant after the organ solo, "Hold your head" is all sung to one note (a D), but the "up" is sung to a higher note (an F), so there's an ascent in the music and the lyrics. This feature is also in Argent's original (from
All Together Now).
