Now Playing: Van Morrison - Into The Mystic

The song has an easy groove, beginning with acoustic guitar and including isolated horn and string charts, as Morrison evokes a sailor’s pledge to come home from the sea to his lover and “rock [her] gypsy soul.” Typical for Morrison, however, the story line is sketchy and, in any case, less important than the mood. As a lyricist, Morrison is often less interested in using words for meaning than for sound, and that is the case here. He once said that his original title for the song was “Into the Misty,” and he may have intended a meaning such as “into the mist,” since the song refers to fog horns among other things nautical.

Source: https://www.allmusic.com/song/into-the-mystic-mt0004460692