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fiest，I konw the song bbased on  Hermann Hesse's book Siddhartha ，the book I readed，and know the thought，but also has some sentence I can't get it。

【In her white lace, you could clearly see the lady sadly looking.

Saying that she'd take the blame

For the crucifixion of her own domain. I get up,

Two million people barely satisfy.

Two hundred women watch one woman cry, too late.

The eyes of honesty can achieve.

How many millions do we deceive each day?

Thru the duty she would coil their said Amusement of her story asking only

Interest could be laid upon the children of her Domain.

 

In charge of who is there in charge of me.

Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?

The truth is written all along the page.

How old will I be before I come of age for you?】

Who is the lady？what's the meaning of "Two million people" and " Two hundred women"?

And I know sometimes verses that often don't seem to mean anything, but I want to know the song's turely significance。

Yes, Even Chris Squire once said he did not know what Jon Anderson was singing about most of the time.

This is why they're so IRRITATING. They're not clever lyrics. Just gobbledygook. 

Where did you read that from?

 

 

 

"As we shall speak to differ also
The ends meet the river's son
So the ends meet the river's son"

 

which isn't a compliment, that book is absolute rubbish.

The answer is, "not conventionally". It paints a picture, yes. So it's much the same as Jon Anderson's lyrics, which have no explicit meaning, but perhaps have an implicit meaning - what you read into them. In these two cases, we have a picture - Jon's lyrics are less conventional insofaras they are even less structured than Gunter Grass's poetry. 

I note the original poster is Chinese. Chinese Tang poetry seems to follow much the same pattern, to me (not read all that much) and it stands up as an art form, but some things don't cross cultural divides too well. 

The reason why I claimed earlier that Jon Anderson's poetry is gobbledygook is that it doesn't make *conventional* sense. It's more a flow of consciousness - like jazz poetry. I dislike both, I'm afraid. 

Clever lyrics for me are something like Marilllions' "Grendel", which paint a far more understandable and accessible picture - to quote - 

There y'go. Less pretentious twaddle, please, Jon. Quasi-mystical mumbo - jumbo rubbish. You may LIKE it, and you're allowed to, as others are allowed to DISLIKE it. It is art, after all. 

*** - the obscenity filter on the forum censored this, not me. ;-)

 

I really, really like Jon Anderson's lyrics, particularly Gates of Delirium, The Remembering and Ritual.

 

also all the others.