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David_D ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 26 2010 Location: Copenhagen Status: Offline Points: 13137 |
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "The Only Way (Hymn)" (excerpt) "People has stirred moved by the word. Kneel at the shrine, deceived by the wine.How was the earth conceived? Infinite space. Is there such a place? You must believe in the human race. Can you believe, God makes you breathe. Why did he lose six million Jews. Touched by the wings, fears angel brings Sad winter storm, grey autumn dawn Who looks on life itself, who lights your way? Only you can say. How can you just obey? ........... Don't be afraid: man is man made." That's great lyrics and not only anti-religious but first and foremost telling that "man is man made" - even I can see a problem or two from a religious point of view.
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I prophesy disaster ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 31 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 4511 |
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I think mentioning the 6 million Jews was quite appropriate for the song because, according to the Bible, Jews were God's chosen people, and yet... I don't think those lines from the song trivialises the loss of 6 million Jews because those lines actually provides impact to what the song is about. Everybody dies, and wars have been killing people for millennia, but the Holocaust was an occurrence like nothing else in history. |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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David_D ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 26 2010 Location: Copenhagen Status: Offline Points: 13137 |
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exactly!
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David_D ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 26 2010 Location: Copenhagen Status: Offline Points: 13137 |
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I won't say the lyrics attack "God" regarding Holocaust, as they see the Holocaust as pure human matter - "God" is very probably non-existing here, and at least non-acting in human matters.
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Lot of mentions to EL&P but I still haven't seen any Jon Anderson quoted. From "Sound Out The Galleon - Olias Of Sunhillow" Do ga riytan sha too raytan Gan matta sha pa Mutto mutto mutto Radan atto raddan atto Stou to mutto sha go teka Sha go teka Dei But this from "Sound And Color - Toltec" is a reference to Castaneda's books Sound can acknowledge and reveal The very nature of the body line Color coexists as a meter to the soul |
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Oh come on!! That is high poetry!! ![]() I filmed "Flight of the Moorglade" at a Jon Anderson "Voice of Yes" concert, it is my favorite song from "Olias!" |
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