In 1838, the French novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) and her new lover, Frederick Chopin, and her two children sailed to the island of Mallorca, supposedly to enjoy the restorative climate, as Chopin was suffering from tuberculosis. They arrived at the wrong time, the accommodations were awful, and the returned in 1839 and went to George Sand's country estate, Nohant, which was far better for Chopin's health.

I am aware of the time dilation interpretation and that Brian May was educated as an astrophysicist. But I should like to point out two lines that, in some ways, compel 39 to favor the Sand/Chopin interpretation. First "write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand." George Sand's daughter, Solance, loved Chopin as the only father she really knew, as her own father had basically disowned her (and it is now known she was not his child, but the bastard of a hired hand on the farm at Nohant). Sand and Chopin broke up over issues with her children: her son was jealous of Chopin's position in the home, and Solange wanted to marry the sculptor Clesingerm whom Sand did not like. After the break up, Solange continued to write to Chopin but never received answers. At a concert in Paris, she approached and berated him for this. He told her that he hated fan mail, and his secretary destroyed all of it---except if it ever happened to bear the name Sand. So he told Solange to sign her letters with the Sand surname, as Solange Sand. I was shown a literal translation of that statement which read,"Write your letters as the Sand." The second interesting line "Your mothers eyes, from your eyes, cry to me." According to accounts from those who were there, Solange was at Chopin's bedside as he lay dying, and he told her that her mother's eyes called to him from her eyes.

Coincidence? Echoes? Jus sayin . . .