Yes lyrics, does anybody understand these?

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   Siberian Khatru, as I see it, is about the development of the world and culture, gradually building up to its present or future state.

Stuff I have a fairly full personalised interpretation of:

South Side Of The Sky
Heart Of The Sunrise

Close To The Edge
You And I
Siberian Khatru

The Ancient

The Gates Of Delirium

I have a vague idea about a few others, but am not interested enough to go through analytically or to clarify it.

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TGM: Orb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 21 2007 Location: n/a Status: Offline Points: 8052	Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:30
	Siberian Khatru, as I see it, is about the development of the world and culture, gradually building up to its present or future state. Stuff I have a fairly full personalised interpretation of: South Side Of The Sky Heart Of The Sunrise Close To The Edge You And I Siberian Khatru The Ancient The Gates Of Delirium I have a vague idea about a few others, but am not interested enough to go through analytically or to clarify it.

meat puppet Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 23 2008 Status: Offline Points: 12	Posted: August 14 2008 at 21:23
	I realised their lyrics did not make any sense about 30 years ago and gave up any pretension of understanding. One day a few years back 'Yes' did a documentary on TV. They spoke about Jon Andersons mad ideas of recording in a forest. They finally setttled on an old barn. Apparently, every recording session Rick Wakemen would end up with a keyboard full of bugs..........he was an angry guy back the........to simulate the country feel they had a couple of cardboard lifesize cows. Anderson was asked about his lyrics........he laughed and confirmed what I had always suspected........they mean nothing at all, he just strapped sentences and words together that sounded interestng to him. They were picked at random from books and magazines plus a few snippets of overheard conversations. So, I wouldn't get into trying to analyse them as Jon thought the lyrics were unimportant compared to the musical experience.

mothershabooboo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 03 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 33	Posted: August 16 2008 at 09:48
	You know, I was thinking about the same thing after picking up 'Magnification'. All the lyrics were too straight forword removing the 'fun' of decodeing the lyrics. The lyrics on 'Close to the Edge' for instance are alittle complicated, but I figure it's a story of a journy one must take. And 'Tales', as I remebered correctly was conseved when Jon was sitting in a hotell room looking through religus panflits and he found four similer things running through each of them, thus the four songs. But I agree that the lyrics never really stood in the frunt ground so much that as Jon's singing. I always just pictured what he said in a cinimitogic way (is that even a word? If it isin't, it should be). For instance, 'Turn of the Century' I can just picuter a couple of star-crossed lovers meeting again in the street, barlie able to remeber the other, but simotaniously remebering the dance the two shaired high on a cloud at a mascerade ball with only their eyes to recognize. (Hopless romantic am I?) I think that's what was missing so much in the Tormato and anything after Drama. The lyrics were way too straight forword leaving no room for the emagination to take hold.