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fiest，I konw the song bbased on   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" rel="nofollow - Hermann Hesse 's book  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_%28book%29" rel="nofollow - 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.

 

Thanks for the info Replayer.....

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. ;-)

Can be done, I suppose. Given enough headache pills. ;-)

 

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

 

also all the others.

 

 

Siddhartha isn't well written, and the theories espoused in it are sophomoric.  Anderson's lyrics, on the other hand, you can sing along with while driving. 

 

I stand by my original assessment.

 

Perhaps it reads better in the original language.

 

Of course you do....

 

I did like both Demian and The Glass Bead Game, and Steppenwolf as well, so I think it was just Hesse's misappropriation of Eastern mysticism that annoyed me.

 

Also that you can't sing along with it while driving.

 

did you expect any other result?

John Bollenberg of ioPages magazine talked to Jon Anderson last week (interview, I guess) and Jon told him that he is in touch with Chris on a daily basis. Maybe they are sorting that issue out now...

 

I'm sure they have lots to talk about.  I'm equally sure that Jon believes this most sincerely.

 

I did like it when I was 15.  Now, not so much.  There was a great parody of it in the New Yorker back in the 1970s.

I think the "Two million" refers to the majority of people in the world who are unhappy, compared to the "two hundred" who are now followers (the "Interest could be laid upon the children of her Domain/followers of her son" line). 

Then the last stanza, Jon speaks of himself: In charge of who is there in charge of me" is jigsaw grammar, but together with "Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?", it seems to refers to his confusion and uncertainty "who's in charge of me". The last lines say the truth is right in the scriptures, but when will I reach enlightenment and see you for myself? I'm assuming the valley/the man with his arm is that person. Or whatever figure Jon thinks up. And then the song's music seems to reach a high state too, so I think that's the intended message. 

This has some direct Jon quotes too: http://genius.com/Yes-close-to-the-edge-lyrics/

“The song came about because Steve was playing these chords one day, and I started singing, ‘Two million people barely satisfy.’ It’s about the incredible imbalance of the human experience on the planet.” – Jon Anderson

“There are several lines that relate to the church. Churchgoers are always fighting about who’s better and who’s richer and who’s more hip. So at the end of the midsection there’s a majestic church organ. We destroy the church organ through the Moog. This leads to another organ solo rejoicing in the fact that you can turn your back on churches and find it within yourself to be your own church.”