Van Morrison: Quotes about the trip

“When all the dark clouds roll away
And the sun begins to shine
I see my freedom from across the way
And it comes right in on time
Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light
And it comes from the sky above
Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me
And lights my life with love.”

Van Morrison

Brand New Day
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

Love , Life , Way , Feeling

“Thanks for the information
Never give a sucker an even break
When he's breaking through
To a new level of consciousness
There always seems to be more
Obstacles in the way
Thanks for the information I know
It's only a combat zone
Thanks for the memory,
I'll just have
To carry on on my own.”

Van Morrison

Thanks For the Information
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)

Way , Memory

“My back was up against the wall
And you slowly just walked away
You never really heard my call
When I cried out that way
With my face against the sun
You pointed out for me to go
Then you said I was the one
Had to reap what you did sow.”

Van Morrison

These Dreams of You
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

Way , Sun

“Won't you guide me through the dark night of the soul
That I may better understand your way
Let me be just and worthy to receive
All the blessings of the Lord into my life.”

Van Morrison

Give Me My Rapture.
Source: Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)

Life , Way , Soul , Understanding

“Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now
I'm tired of the ways of mice and men
And the empires all turning into rust again.
Out of everything nothing remains the same
That's why I'm cloud hidden
Cloud hidden
Whereabouts unknown.”

Van Morrison

Alan Watts Blues
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)

Men , Way

“Way over on the railroad,
Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together,
Every scrapbook stuck with glue,
And I'll stand beside you,
Beside you, child.”

Van Morrison

Beside You
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)

Way

“With Moondance, I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way I wrote that one. I don't really have any words to particularly describe the song, sophisticated is probably the word I'm looking for. For me, Moondance is a sophisticated song. Frank Sinatra wouldn't be out of place singing that.”

Van Morrison

As quoted in Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison (1997) by Brian Hinton, p. 106

Way , Singing

“And we're sailing, we're sailing,
Way up to Caledonia,
We're from Denmark.”

Van Morrison

Listen to the Lion
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)

Way

“Beside the garden walls,
We walk in haunts of ancient peace.
At night we rest and go to sleep
In haunts of ancient peace.
The love and light we seek,
The words we do not need to speak,
Here in this wondrous way we keep
These haunts of ancient peace.”

Van Morrison

Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Song lyrics, Common One (1980)

Love , Peace , Way , Sleep

“So hard to find my way,
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My how you have grown,
Cast my memory back there, Lord
Sometimes I'm overcome thinking 'bout
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl.”

Van Morrison

Brown Eyed Girl
Song lyrics, Blowin' Your Mind! (1967)

Love , Making love , Way , Girl

“And when that foghorn blows,
I will be coming home,
When that foghorn blows,
I wanna hear it, I don't have to fear it,
And I wanna rock your gypsy soul,
Just like way back in the days of old,
And magnificently we will fold
Into the mystic.”

Van Morrison

Into the Mystic
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

Fear , Way , Home , Soul

“And there's only one man knows way to go,
And we say 'Geronimo.”

Van Morrison

Fair Play
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

Way

“To Santa Fe
Do you need it?
Can you feel it in the same old way?
I can feel it from the mountain top
Runnin' down to the foamy brine
In a rest'rant 'cross a table top
Looking into a glass of wine
Whispering in the evening breeze
Green leaves glist'ning eucalyptus trees
Can you hear them?
Or get near them?”

Van Morrison

Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession
Song lyrics, Wavelength (1978)

Way , Feeling , Mountain , Tree

“Whatever it takes to fulfill his mission
That is the way we must go
But you've got to do it your own way
Tear down the old, bring up the new.”

Van Morrison

When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God?
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

Way , Tear

“Like I say, the way I write songs is, you know, inspirational. I have to wait for it to happen. And when it happens I get lines, and I just write them down, you know. I'm not sort of a Tin Pan Alley sort of songwriter. I just sort of write down what I get - without censoring or questioning what it is and what it means, you know. Like later on I look at what it means, but not at the time.”

Van Morrison

"Nights in Copenhagen with Van Morrison" (1985) interview by Al Jones

Way , Question , Time , Waiting

“The way you see me walking on
That's why I'm telling you in song
There's only one way to get ahead
You've got to give it up instead
Start all over again.”

Van Morrison

Start All Over Again
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)

Way

“Walkin' on a city street who would think you could ever be touched
By a total stranger, not me
But when you came up to me that day and I listened to your story
It reminded me so much of myself
It wasn't what you said but the way it felt to me
About a search and a journey just like mine.”

Van Morrison

Angeliou
Song lyrics, Into the Music (1979)

Way , Search , Thinking