Enigma Of Evocation In Music

Two songs from the 1960s

There are many examples of the Enigma Of Evocation in popular music. The first I would like to cite here is 'Matthew And Son' by Cat Stevens, a single released in Britain near the end of 1966.

No description of music, lyrics or other facet of this recording can quite explain why... the people doing regular jobs in the same place day after day, week after week, month after month... and, so on.. The lack of money paid to the workers - a London (?) small business, a 1960s perspective near-equivalent to one in a 19th century Dickens drama... Without the great potent mystery of the evocation sublimely attained by the songwriter/singer and musicians, the details are merely as banal and non-extraordinary as is the overwhelming majority of what passes for human culture. How is this particular situation of place and circumstance that is portrayed in the lyrics of the song so vividly brought out to us, as we would expect it to actually be experienced by a sensitive person 'in real life'?

With a song such as this one, containing the Enigma Of Evocation sublimely presented, we might do well to concede that something beyond the mundanely human level has interceded in the creative process. Something, perhaps, more evolved than we are, with greater knowledge and a higher, healthier form of technology.

Although few, if any of us have much of an idea of what these more evolved forms of intelligence are, and the ways in which they operate to influence the human creative process, some clues might be found within certain songs.

As I see it, no decade is more rich in possible examples of music that bears the hallmarks of 'higher powers' than the 1960s. With reference to another popular song from that decade, I ask this question:

Do these alien beings - or whatever else we call them - have the ability to 'Look Through Any Window', calmly observing a spectrum of human and other activities? (Note carefully the word 'Any' and the implication thereof) Perhaps it is this extraterrestrial capability that is hinted at in the song by The Hollies of that title, which was released as a single in October 1965 - a song written by Graham Gouldman and Charles Silverman. 

Can these beings not only observe through their 'windows', our windows, and all around in the spaces between - outside; but, also use monitoring devices, as has been claimed by contactees, to record human and other life on this planet? Is this grand technological capability and the huge implications it carries for our future, the vital hidden message that The Hollies were conveying to us, so vividly, so sensitively in their great recording?