the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

This one is huge. A prophetic masterpiece; #11 on my top 400. The main theme of Lifehouse, this is Pete's solo version, released in 1972 on the album Who Came First, which was also a reference to Who's Next of 1971, and to the fact that the last line of Song is Over (on Who's Next) is the first line of this song. "There once was a note, pure and easy..." It goes on, "Our love is enough to knock down any walls, and the future's been seen, as men try to realize the simple secret of the note in us all." The one note, which might be called the Ommm sound of creation, like the held-down pedal of a certain organ masterpiece, the drones of ambient music, or the powerful chord that continues under the synthesizer part at the start and the end of a certain famous Who song; Pete was certainly "attuned" to the music of the universe and the spirit. At the end the music become like surfing on the gigantic waves that might be coming upon us. The same wave that Lightfoot referred to, maybe? 

There once was a note; listen!