Clayton-Thomas was quoted as describing the song as being "written in an age when psychedelic imagery was all over lyrics...it was my way of saying, 'Don't get too caught up, because everything comes full circle'." The song ends with the 1815 Austrian tune ("The More We Get Together" or "Did You Ever See a Lassie?") and drummer Bobby Colomby's comment: "That wasn't too good", followed by laughter from the rest of the group. According to producer James William Guercio this section was added in at the last minute after the end of the master tape was recorded over accidentally by an engineer at the studio. Most of this section and the trumpet solo were edited out for the single version. The eight-bar piano solo which precedes the trumpet solo on the album version is overlapped with guitar on the single version before the last verse.
Their horn section was pretty spectacular... releasing singles with the horn solos removed was tragic.
I agree. Groups like BS&T and Chicago main allure, for me, was the horn work.
Don't get me started on Chicago during the Terry Kath era! Hell, even Peter Cetera was a force on the bass back then... David Foster should be ashamed at what he did to them. The only thing I heard from the horns after Kath died was at the end of the full album version of "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" but that hard-hitting ending never got played on the radio, and they didn't even get writing credit for it. Grumble.
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