This is also one of my all time favourite tracks. As with all of Yes's work, it is beautifully composed and played. About 15 years ago I was doing a basic media course and created a video to go with this song that was shot on Irish hilltops in the dead of winter. We used some shots of turbine blades on a windfarm that went perfectly with the bit in the middle (before the brilliant drum roll).
The song always made me think of a party of refugees tyring to escape some terrible atrocity and taking a desperate flight over snowfields. The leader (maybe father) tries to keep everyone moving, but it is becoming pointless as they succumb to the harsh conditions.
That's what the video was supposed to evoke, but it wasn't very good!
This is also one of my all time favourite tracks. As with all of Yes's work, it is beautifully composed and played. About 15 years ago I was doing a basic media course and created a video to go with this song that was shot on Irish hilltops in the dead of winter. We used some shots of turbine blades on a windfarm that went perfectly with the bit in the middle (before the brilliant drum roll).
The song always made me think of a party of refugees tyring to escape some terrible atrocity and taking a desperate flight over snowfields. The leader (maybe father) tries to keep everyone moving, but it is becoming pointless as they succumb to the harsh conditions.
That's what the video was supposed to evoke, but it wasn't very good!