#SongoftheDay Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues)

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I bet there are people who create blogs because they want to show the world how smart they are. Not me! Every day I discover I'm even stupider than I thought I was. It's a wild adventure.

So, today, for example, I learned that this song is called Nights in White Satin. 

My entire life, I thought it was Knights in White Satin. 

I thought it was a song about knights... in white satin.

They're knights. They wear satin instead of armour. This is a song about them.

I am not joking. I've held that belief since childhood, and I never thought to challenge it until today, when my parter and I were discussing the song.

Still an evocative track, even if it's not about jousting.



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