| Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I am pompous but I'm not sure where the weasel impression comes in. I meant "real" as opposed to "commercial." And I'm not telling you, just expressing my opinion of what real Yes music is, I'm allowed to have one. At one point they even kicked Jon Anderson out of the band, his own band that he started, so that there was not even one original member, no Steve Howe, Bill Bruford, or Rick Wakeman, geniuses all, even involved. The label kept the name to sell records. I was drunk when I wrote this but I stand by the points I made. This song is eighties commercial garbage. But, one man's garbage, you know. The part about Close to the Edge saving my life I meant more in a metaphorical way, helped get me through some lonely and depressing times. Have you never had music affect you at all? I've probably listed to Close to the Edge fifty-sixty times. |
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| Marmalade – Reflections Of My Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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My feeling is that this is a man looking at the world after the love of his life has spurned him. He's gone along in the world for a long time with his love for her always with him, so it became part of the world. After he asked her, and she said no, then he saw the world in a horrible new light. He transfers his pain and misery onto everyone else he sees, hence the, "people in trouble" line. I actually find this an uplifting song, because, even though the world sucks, he still wants to be in it, so it can't suck all that bad. I guess there's not a lot in the lyrics song to suggest my interpretation, it's just the melancholy, depressed music. But I don agree that only two comments on this song is incredible. I thought it was more popular than that. It certainly deserves to be. If the Beatles had written this song everyone would be singing it. Marmalade has a whole catalog of songs but this is the only one on here. |
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| Oasis – Cast No Shadow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Everything a man can be given in life, a beautiful wife, children, things like that, and afterwards he himself,doesn't mean anything, he "casts no shadow" himself but it is about all he has in his hands, not himself. | |
| The Wallflowers – One Headlight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song reminds me of our hunting cabin at the end of the year. How it smells of cigarettes and beer, not wine, and has that feeling that you won't see your hunting buddies, your best friends, in that capacity for the rest of the year. It really is a breaking heart when you have to leave, and you have to struggle through the dark, ie without your buddies, through the dark with only one headlight. Tim and Eric is starting a new year so I have to go. | |
| The Wallflowers – 6th Avenue Heartache Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| But there's something so uplifting about this song. This is my current "Friday Song" that I listen to on the drive home on Friday. Awesome song. | |
| The Wallflowers – One Headlight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I get the feeling of our hunting cabin when hunting seaon is over, it smells like cigarettes and, beer not wine, but we're not going to see her for another year, and that's like she's not alive for us, (comitting suicide) for a year, and there's nothing like that last morning, when you know you wont't be back for a year, but the one headlight thing is about how you'll get along without your best friends, ie your hunting buddies, for that year, you'll just struggle along in the dark with "one headlight." | |
| Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Nothing compared to real Yes music. Absolutely nothing. | |
| Yes – Siberian Khatru Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The only meaning I ever got from this song was that it was just some part of life. a melodical, over-our-heads, beautiful part of life. | |
| Yes – Siberian Khatru Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The only meaning I ever got from this song was that it was just some part of life. a melodical, over-our-heads, beautiful part of life. | |
| Yes – South Side of the Sky Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think that it changes to "warmer" refers to that when you die of freezing, your nerve nedings die before you do and you end up not feeling so cold, but that is the point where you stop caring that you are dying, so it's kind of a utopia. An aewsome song. | |
| Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Okay, first off, this is NOT YES!!!! This was written by Yes in the eighties to make money, that is it. If you listen to real Yes, made from 1970-1978, you will cry when you hear this song. I re-litened to it to make this post, and had to stop, it is pathetically bad, and I'm ashamed that it is Jon Anderson singing it. Listen to Close To The Edge, The Yes Album, Fragile, just listen to the song Roundabout, and you will be embarrased for Jon Anderson. Those albums are musically dense, and the lyrics are meaningful. Close to the Edge saved my life!!! I can't blame him for wanting to make the money, but it is like Van Gogh painting a McDonald's ad, or Stanley Kubrick making a Ford car commercial. Just better not listened to. Shame on those who liked this and don't know real Yes!!!! Listen to Close to the Edge!!! It will teach you! |
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| Yes – We Have Heaven Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| In relation to the song after this one on the album, "South Side of the Sky" about an exploration group dying in Antartica, I would say this is about death. No matter waht you are, a person or a moon dog or a march hare, whatever those are, you will have death in your future, and therefore it is not that bad, just a universal thing that we all have. | |
| Yes – Close to the Edge Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There are two kinds of Yes, the long album-long songs like close to the edge, which are Relayer and Tale from Topographic oceans, and the shorter regular song length like Fragile, and The Yes Album. Believe me, all are worth listening to. This album came into my life at the time when I most needed it. I bought it because I'd liked the Yes song "Roundabout," I listened to it once, didn't like it, and put it away. About a year later I was sitting in my truck, wating for someone to show up, the reason is meaningless, but I was very alone, and I threw "Close to the Edge" in the player and was blown away. It definetly takes a mature mind to appreciate this album for its full worth. A three minute pop song won't be found here. This album takes multiple viewings to even begin to enjoy. Maybe this isn't for most people. But the joy I have received from this album scoffs any movie or book or painting into the ground. In general, it is about life. Being born, the seemingly random instrumental opening punctuated by "ordered" vocals from Yes, the goings on of life, which are as random as can be from one person to the next, and the constants between us all, love, joy, anger, all that stuff. In general, all the specifics may be different, "Close to the edge, down by the corner" or "Close to the edge, round by the river," we're all close to the edge, ie death, seasons, ie years, pass us by, we all have good time and bad times, ie "I get up, I get down." I think this refers to the general go of life, not drugs, as in "I get High." Anyway, I believe this album to be the greatest expresion in history of what it's like to be alive and human. Every person should listen to this. And take a class on it. I'm in a better place now, but I listen to it and am immedieately transferred back to that low place, and I find that seasons are still passing me by. I still get up and get down. Whatever you take from this album, and you must listen to the whole album, not just this song, give it another chance if you didn't like it. It will help you. |
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| Yes – Mood For A Day Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Any guitar player that aspires to any kind of greatness should listen to this, and realize that it can't be done any better. | |
| Yes – The Gates of Delirium Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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First off, I don't any difference in quality of music between Relayer and Tales from Topographic Oceans. I'll admit that the SOON portion of Gates of Delirium is the best of all Yes frm that period, but overall the albums are very similar to me. Only "To be Over" off of Relayer compares to The Revealing science of god and gates of delirium. As for the meaning of this song, I had the feeling, upon reading the lyrics and listening to it at the same time, that it was about the civil rights movement. "Throwing chains to the floor," "reminded of an inner pact," "stand the marchers," and "destroy oppression" all have alusions to the civil rights movements. I realize this imagery can have to do with any war, but the african americans definitely saw their movement as a war, and everything here fits that. "Words casue oour baaner" and "Will silence be promised as violence display" could be an allusion to the non-violent resistance, sit-in type of thing of Martin Luther king Jr. And the ending "Soon" portion of the song could be anologised to Luther's "I have a dream" speech. I must say I really enjoy this type of meaningful music that Yes produced. Much more pleasing and beautiful than anything being done today. |
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| Yes – I've Seen All Good People: Your Move/All Good People Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Also, to go along with the war thing, the whole beginning of the song you've described here, about a guy going off to war, but the entire second half of the song is the repeated line "I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisifed I'm on my way." This one line takes up the enitre second half of the song. It seems to me that it is the soldier doing horrible things to other people, killing them and such, and then saying, "Well, the other guys are doing it," and then moving onto the next atrocity. Also one of the best songs ever written, musically speaking. |
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| Yes – Heart of the Sunrise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is about sex. The line "Love comes to you, and then after... dream on, onto the heart of the sunrise," refers to how making love with someone goes, you have the love, and orgasm, and then everything after that is a dream, the rest of life doesn't matter anymore. "I feel lost in the city" means that Jon feels that anything other than love (ie a job, making money) is pointless after the love. It's generally all we care about, and all other life, a job and such, is for that. The "dreamer in the chair that really fits you" refers to the fact that all humans are this way, and ,even if they profess otherwise, only want love and sex. | |
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