Astral Weeks has stream of consciousness and poetic lyrics that evoke emotions and images instead of coherent, intellectual ideas and narratives [REF].
Although usually described as a song cycle[REF] rather than a concept album, the songs do, when considered in their totality, seem to link together as one long song, forming an "intangible narrative of unreachable worlds"[REF] and delivered with what one writer calls "a masterpiece of virtuoso singing" [REF].