“And this time I forget to slip into your slumber
The light is on the left side of your head
And I'm standing in your doorway
And I'm mumbling and I can't remember the last thing that ran through my head”

—  Van Morrison

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Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)

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Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

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