Album: Mystery to Me (1973)

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• It's the same kind of story
  That seems to come down from long ago
  Two friends having coffee together
  When something flies by their window
  It might be out on that lawn
  Which is wide, at least half of a playing field
  Because there's no explaining what your imagination
  Can make you see and feel
  
  Seems like a dream
  They got me hypnotized
  
  Now it's not a meaningless question
  To ask if they've been and gone
  I remember a talk about North Carolina
  And a strange, strange pond
  You see the sides were like glass
  In the thick of a forest without a road
  And if any man's hand ever made that land
  Then I think it would've showed
  
  That's why it seems like a dream
  Got me hypnotized
  And I know that's right
  
  Seems like a dream
  They got me hypnotized
  
  They say there's a place down in Mexico
  Where a man can fly over mountains and hills
  And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine
  And he never will
  Now you know it's a meaningless question
  To ask if those stories are right
  'Cause what matters most is the feeling
  You get when you're hypnotized
  
  Seems like a dream
  They got me hypnotized
  Seems like a dream
  They got me hypnotized
  Seems like a dream
  They got me hypnotized
  Got me hypnotized Writer/s: Robert Welch
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Rodney Cross from Los Angeles, CaOne of my favorite F Mac songs post-F Mac blues era (RIP Bob & Peter). To me, I like the funny gorilla cover. It doesn’t bother me at all & I think goes with “Hypnotized”.
• Michelle from Alameda, CaA forever enduring, evocative song. One of Fleetwood Mac's most underrated gems & among their most haunting from a band who made their name making haunting music. One thing for sure, the music on this album sure deserved a better record cover! One of the most god-awful album covers of all time. Who the heck OK'd that design?
• Ytownboy from Youngstown OhioIts sounds like it would be a song about the rendlesham forest incident
• Tony from San Diego, CaMothman, totally! Just a perfect song. Love the eeriness of it, listening to it now with headphones, candles, 2:57 am bit of wind in living room and smokin out. NICE.
• Oldpink from Farmland, InSad to say that Bob Welch only yesterday took his life.
  At least his music lives on in this classic, not to mention his solo "Sentimental Lady."
  RIP Bob
• Lisa from Marietta , OhI have wondered about this one so many times. I always think of the Mothman when I hear something flies by the window. Such a cool song.
• Ed from San Antonio, TxOne of my Fav songs from the 70's. The way the song starts, Bob's voice, and the UFO references make for a classic song. I never get tired of it. My only complaint: The CD needs to be remastered. It deserves a better treatment.

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