First released on their album In Search of the Lost Chord, it was written jointly by band members Justin Hayward and Ray Thomas, and was the first of many collaborations between them.
The song is primarily led by Justin Hayward's voice and Ray Thomas's flute, with the lyrics describing the writer's perception of paradise.
The song has been described as ".. little else than Thomas’s flute riff and Hayward’s softly picked acoustic.
Apparently resuming the drug-trip theme, this song may be even further "out there" than "The Best Way to Travel" with a surreal perception of paradise.
[2] In 2008 the band issued a "instrumental sitar mix" of the track as a bonus on their 2008 CD remastered reissue.