{"id":916,"date":"2026-06-29T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=916"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:45:27","slug":"mm-1970-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/06\/29\/mm-1970-4\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-1016x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-1016x1024.png 1016w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-768x774.png 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-1524x1536.png 1524w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-2033x2048.png 2033w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/06\/image-6-1985x2000.png 1985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Into the Mystic | Van Morrison | Lyrics \u263e\u2600\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZ59spYH9mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Into the Mystic&#8221; is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Van_Morrison\">Van Morrison<\/a>\u00a0and featured on his 1970 album\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moondance\">Moondance<\/a><\/em>. It was also included on Morrison&#8217;s 1974 live album,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It%27s_Too_Late_to_Stop_Now\">It&#8217;s Too Late to Stop Now<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The lyrics are about a spiritual quest, typical of Morrison&#8217;s work. &#8220;Bass thrums like a boat in motion, and the song comes back to water as a means of magical transformation.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Into_the_Mystic#cite_note-Hinton,_Celtic_Crossroads_p108-7\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/sup>&#8220;At the very end Van sings:\u00a0<em>too late to stop now<\/em>, suggesting that the song also describes an act of love.&#8221; (This phrase would become a key point of many live concerts.)<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Into_the_Mystic#cite_note-8\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/sup>Compared to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yesterday_(song)\">Yesterday<\/a>&#8221; by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\">The Beatles<\/a>, it has been described as &#8220;another song where the music and the words seem to have been born together, at the same time, to make one perfectly formed, complete artistic element.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . &#8220;Into the Mystic&#8221; is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter\u00a0Van Morrison\u00a0and featured on his 1970 album\u00a0Moondance. 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The lyrics are about a spiritual quest, typical of Morrison&#8217;s work. &#8220;Bass thrums like a boat in motion, and the song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}