If you have experienced this particular mind quirk add one to this string.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY9cr9MnNrc
Just found this information about what the song means...or doesn't mean.
"'I wrote 'Crystal Blue Persuasion' with Eddie Gray and Mike Vale," explained Tommy James.
"Eddie came up with the little guitar riff, and Mike and I did the lyrics. And it just felt very right as a sort of semi-religious poetic song, but it turned out to be one of the hardest records I've ever made."
"It's out of the Bible. The imagery was right out of Chapter 19 of the Book of Revelation, about the lake of crystal, and just what John sees. The imagery was just right there. 'Crystal blue persuasion,' although those words aren't used together, it was what the image meant to me."
The lyrics, "It's a new vibration," are about James becoming Christian, but many listeners had their own interpretation.
He explained: "Of course, everybody thinks if they don't understand what you're talking about it must be about drugs. But it wasn't. We were going through a real interesting time back then, and a very wonderful time. Everybody in the band, by the way, became Christian. And we're very proud of it. And 'Crystal Blue Persuasion' was sort of our way of saying that in a kind of pop record way."/quote]
