Has anyone discussed the meaning of this song before?
Care to now?


We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
The crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away yeah
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said: "There is no reason
And the truth is plain to see"
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast ohah
And although my eyes were opened
They might just as well be closed

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale - ahah ahah

Ohoh and so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

Ohoh and so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale


Sung by Procol Harum and later Annie Lennox