Castle Walls - Styx (1977)

Once in a dream
Far beyond these castle walls
Down near the bay
Where the moonlit water falls
I stood alone
While the minstrel sang his song
So afraid I'd lost my soul

There in the fog his song kept calling me
Leading me on with its haunting melody
Deep in my heart a voice kept echoing
I knew I'd soon be wandering

Far beyond these castle walls
Where the distant harbour meets the sky
There the battle raged like hell
And every dove had lost its will to fly

Far beyond these castle walls
Where I thought I heard Tiresias say
Life is never what it seems
And every man must meet his destiny

"Castle Walls" was released on Styx's seventh album, The Grand Illusion, in the summer of 1977. The Grand Illusion is probably Styx's greatest effort, a consistently great album of great rock and roll. The record leans to prog heavier than their other efforts.

This is my 2nd version and upload of the video after the 1st version was blocked, but I've since seen numerous songs from this album being uploaded and left for the fan's enjoyment....think it had something to do with the source of the track used in the video, so I've used a different track from a different CD release. Hopefully, this one will be left up so some new fans might decide they like the song enough to visit Amazon or Itunes.....hopefully they can respect a different and more visual version of the great tune and allow it to attract the fans who appreciate the visual imagery?

As tempted as I was to totally overhaul this video which I had created many months ago, and there were many things I'd like to improve upon....I decided to just give it a basic touch up and not bring alot of new elements into it.....a couple of new images and some work on the fog (which was always a major source of irritation in the original since it was improperly timed and took on a repetitive look during the images using lots of fog/clouds), and a few timing adjustments. It's basically the same video I created way back.

I hope you enjoy it....and I hope it's allowed to remain up as long as other videos of this tune.

Enjoy!

[Musicman]

Wow, the 70s 80s were the best of the best music, bands, artists in music. Now 2021 still listening to my high school music, Im old and in heaven today. Thxs for the memories 👍

[steel]

not sure how I missed this treasure growing up... Awesome song...

[rattinox]

Never again will such Magic Music be written again, for Styx wrote and performed in the time of the Old can be only had in the memories of the Good People, and the

[MetalGuruMessiah]

Thanks Ron! Appreciate the support and encouragement!

[MetalGuruMessiah]

Awesome to know you enjoyed it! Thanks for the nice comment and for the sub!

[MetalGuruMessiah]

Great choice for a favorite Styx tune! thanks so much for visiting and commenting!

[MetalGuruMessiah]

Thanks for watching and a spine-tingler to be sure! ;-)

[Heyjonjohnson]

those feedback swells in the instrumental part are epic

[Musicman]

#Another great song from these Artists

[MetalGuruMessiah]

@BeckyLMC
Thanks for the wonderful words of support and encouragement, my new "contact"! LOL! I really appreciate you checking the vid out and for taking the time to comment....so happy you enjoyed my effort.

[beccabluerock]

honestly one of the best songs i've ever heard no lie

[MetalGuruMessiah]

@mylilindia
Thank you so much for checking the video out and for commenting, and especially for the nice words! I'm happy that some of the my video efforts are pleasing to other fans....and I'm sure you have both the talent and imagination to make the videos if you learned how! Thanks again!

[rubulator]

This was a sleeping gem. That album had so much great music. Would have been a hit otherwise.

[ReefBotanicals]

You've done something wonderful for my very favorite song. Thank you!

[mom]

This song is fantastic! I can imagine what it's like. A Beautiful princess alone in a castle, where an evil group of men trying to force her to turn over her kingdom, and castle to them.

[styxman]

This is the coolest vid of one of my most favorite songs. I used to get sooo hi and would rock out to STYX in my 1970 the memories.

[MetalGuruMessiah]

@TheMorrisonvids
So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting on it!

[acoiv]

Absolutely one of the best songs of all times!!! Sounds like it was made for Castlevania.

[MetalGuruMessiah]

1 of the greatest comments I've ever seen! LOL! Seriously....I appreciate the kind words for my little vid to this classic tune!

[MetalGuruMessiah]

@Dolphin007fan
I'm very happy you were able to find it again! Hopefully this one will be up for awhile longer. Thanks for the comment and support!