Message The Mellotron lines to Epitaph.... I was listening to the song again last night and am continually amazed how Ian McDonald came up with such a simple, yet effecting line during the "I fear, tomorrow, I'll be crying" section... It descends, ascends, descends, ascends, descends, and then ascends to a climax. I remember hearing that for the first time in 1969 live at the Palm Beach Festival and how blown away I was by that band.