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| Yes – And You And I Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I was told by someone over 25 years ago that the song was based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, a three-book science series in which the protagonist, Hari Seldon, is a mathematician who invents a new field called psychohistory, which could predict the course of history based on a mathematical analysis of the emotional state of the people of the universe - emotion revealed as the ocean maid. Throughout the course of the history covered by the books, merchants, and later, religious, take over control of society, only to both eventually fail - coins and crosses never know their fruitless worth. The series is also a mystery, where the central unknown is the location of one of the two Foundation planets of a spiral galaxy where the psychohistorians that guide the future of civilization reside - a foundation left to create the spiral aim. Knowing the song, I was able to determine the location of the first foundation before it was revealed in the third book. Many of the elements of the song fit the story, enough for those intrigued to pick up the books. Of course, that doesn't discount what many others have said here, as the themes of the books are ancient traditional themes of many cultures. |
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| Yes – Heart of the Sunrise Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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My impression is similar to findsomepeace. I think the song is about the difference between the country (Heart of the Sunrise) and the city (straight light moving and removing sharpness of the color sun shine, straight light searching all the meanings of the song). I grew up in and around NYC, but went to college in upstate New York. On holidays, when I drove home, after several hours of country road driving and uncrowded interstates, I had to drive through the Bronx. The change in my stress level was amazing. It always reminded me of the slow, comtemplative bass line near the beginning of the song (especially in live versions) finally getting caught up in the frenetic lead guitar that follows - one can't help but to get caught up in the pace of the city. One chooses one or the other - this is about the beauty of the country: love comes to you and you follow, on to the heart of the sunrise. A beautiful song. |
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