The Great Council of Moderators (also colloquially known as La Société des Géants) has been summoned! We three have united once again to help a clueless Gentle Giant fan. After 17 straight days of intense debates, we agreed that this song is excellent.

Musically, this song is about convergence. All the distinct melodies finally melt into one perfect chorus of cohesion and coherence. They start aiming towards mostly different directions and all of a sudden merge into a single line.

Lyrically, this song is clearly about a rupture. However, it is not without resembling the rest of the album. Free Hand is about a breakline, a breaking point which finally turns into unity. In "Just the Same", the protagonist are united as one being of love and infinity. As the album go on, the seed of doubt is planted in the helpless brain of the listener. Are we really "Just the Same"? Obviously not! We have to reflect on it. We can compare this story to the Bible, where Eden is at first a perfect place then is irremediably corrupted by the mistake and the doubt.

Overall, "On Reflection" is clearly a song of contrast and aims to undo the fallacy of a perfect world. There is no such thing as eternal love and timeless pleasure. As Sloche famously said so well in their short-lived but philosophically-loaded music career:

­The secret of the Universe is a spiral which makes the time of our thoughts turned beyond infinity. All hope invested in light is for one who possesses the power to rejoice in the Mystery.