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Artist: The Waterboys
Track: The Whole of the Moon

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I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon

Hmm, you were there in the turnstiles, with the wind at your heels
You stretched for the stars and you know how it feels to reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
I was grounded
While you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truth
You cut through lies
I saw the rain dirty valley
You saw Brigadoon
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon

I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, I guessed and I tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned, I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon

(The whole of the moond) with a torch in your pocket and the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder and you know how it feels to get too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon, hey yeah!

Unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers
Trumpets, towers and tenements
Wide oceans full of tears
Flags, rags ferryboats
Scimitars and scarves
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
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DomusBabilonia discusses the meanings of The Whole Of The Moon lyrics: I think that this is a person who clearly admires and loves someone who has appeared in his life like a comet. It is very clear in the lyrics how the different paths that both people take have led them to recognize themselves so deeply to each other. That's why they feel love and admiration of their own ways to know each other. Because their desire and love complement each other. Both had not seen the full moon until they met. It's as if this song is a fragment, or part of an identical mirror that comes together.
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The second track of the 1985 album This Is The Sea, “The Whole of the Moon” became one of The Waterboys' best-known songs and their most commercially successful. It’s a love song
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The Waterboys
Led by Mike Scott, the Waterboys formed in London in 1981. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Scott first became involved in music as the creator of the fanzine Jungleland and later