What the fuck is “I’ve Seen All Good People” by Yes about, anyway? Fucking chess or something?
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Candid Engineer
December 11, 2009 at 9:00 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I thought it was about maudlin geese.
Cherish
December 11, 2009 at 10:22 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
All Yes lyrics are about peace and love and the fact that Jon Anderson believes that he is a member of the Elven Nation. It just doesn’t come across until you listen to their music while high. (Mine, fortunately, was just a contact high from all the other people at the concert doing drugs.) :-D
D.
December 12, 2009 at 8:50 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Definitely chess. Complete with moves.
I blame it for making Chess, the musical, possible (“One Night in Bangkok” notwithstanding).
DuWayne
December 12, 2009 at 10:14 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was just fucking listening to that fucking album…
I always thought it was about sex…But then when I was first listening to that shit, everything actually *was* about sex.
rehctaw
December 13, 2009 at 8:25 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Better living through 60s chemistry.
Find some blotter or 4-way window pane and it will all become clear to you. Bake yourself.
Mixed with today’s technology; an Ipod plus sweet noise canceling headphones; (Ipod loaded with 60s crypto-lyrics) you may achieve enlightenment without having to stack vinyl or suffer through lesser album fillers.
Enlightenment consists of never seeking meaning in song lyrics without the use of artificial inspiration.
muttie
December 13, 2009 at 12:08 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ipod is also a question of IQ. Love,
Fessa
neal peart
December 13, 2009 at 9:18 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/68157/