Jon Anderson has consistently expressed his spirituality through songwriting. He has rejected the notion that any one religion has the Truth (please review My Interpretation of the song Going For The One, from the same album as Parallels).
Parallel Lines go in the same direction and do not intersect. So, if we have "parallel" views, we do not get in each other's way by arguing which religion is best. We are then able to move in the same direction and have goals that we can accomplish together.
"It's the beginning of a new love in sight". By accepting everyone else without challenging each other's views, we can love and accept our differences. "Display our Rights and Wrongs and keep it strong", none of us and none of our views are perfect, so we need not pick each other's religion apart, but together, we can strive toward perfection in harmony by "Making Love Toward Perfection", or embracing Love for others to make this a more perfect world.
"Parallel our sights and we will see that we, we need to be where we belong". We enjoy being able to fit in with others who can be supportive of our goals. Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs cites we have a Universal need for Love and Belonging as a society.
In summary, Parallels is simply about us not getting in each others' way of our desire to understand The Universe; to stop enforcing our views upon each other and accept that we can all move in the same direction...to say this song is about God is to say the Dictionary is about words that begin with the letter "A". Parallels is so much more.
Jon Anderson has consistently expressed his spirituality through songwriting. He has rejected the notion that any one religion has the Truth (please review My Interpretation of the song Going For The One, from the same album as Parallels).
Parallel Lines go in the same direction and do not intersect. So, if we have "parallel" views, we do not get in each other's way by arguing which religion is best. We are then able to move in the same direction and have goals that we can accomplish together.
"It's the beginning of a new love in sight". By accepting everyone else without challenging each other's views, we can love and accept our differences. "Display our Rights and Wrongs and keep it strong", none of us and none of our views are perfect, so we need not pick each other's religion apart, but together, we can strive toward perfection in harmony by "Making Love Toward Perfection", or embracing Love for others to make this a more perfect world.
"Parallel our sights and we will see that we, we need to be where we belong". We enjoy being able to fit in with others who can be supportive of our goals. Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs cites we have a Universal need for Love and Belonging as a society.
In summary, Parallels is simply about us not getting in each others' way of our desire to understand The Universe; to stop enforcing our views upon each other and accept that we can all move in the same direction...to say this song is about God is to say the Dictionary is about words that begin with the letter "A". Parallels is so much more.
@PsYcLONe I think this was a Chris Squire song.
@PsYcLONe I think this was a Chris Squire song.