A Sense of Doubt blog post #2954 - "Perpetual Change" - YES - Music Week 2023 #12
Welcome to the last of the extended 12 post "week" of Music designed to help me catch up ont he blog after setting a new record with being 15 days behind.
These posts took longer than I planned.
I am still working to make the blog sustainable. If I am going to be dedicated to posting every day, then I need to plan ahead for when I get busy.
One has to be a music super nerd to like YES. They are a very special brand of art rock. I happen to love them, but when I started getting into them, they were hardly "cool." It was the early '80s with the punks and new wavers.
I never saw them in their heydays, but I did manage to see them in the early 2000s at a great venue: Interlochen, Michigan.
I never saw them in their heydays, but I did manage to see them in the early 2000s at a great venue: Interlochen, Michigan.
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This is by far my favorite YES song. "Perpetual Change" released on the band's third studio album, the Yes Album, has always spoken to me both in its philosophical lyrics and its energizing guitar riffs.
I chose it on purpose to end my "week" of music because all is "perpetual change":
As mist and sun are both the same,We look on as pawns of their gameThey move to testify the day,Inside out, outside in, inside out, outside in,All of the wayAh, ah
FROM WIKI:
Anderson was inspired to write the lyrics for "Perpetual Change" by the view of the countryside from the cottage at Churchill.[9] He thought of humans completing the moon landing at a time when "our own environment is all fouled up", and a space mission that involved an explosion on the moon to observe its thickness and the subsequent Pakistani floods in 1970. "So I was thinking, ok you knock the moon off its axis and you're going to mess up the world."[37] The middle of the track features a polyrhythmic structure, where two pieces of music in different time signatures[c] are playing simultaneously.[39]
As mist and sun are both the same,We look on as pawns of their gameThey move to testify the day,Inside out, outside in, inside out, outside in,All of the wayAh, ah
FROM WIKI:
Anderson was inspired to write the lyrics for "Perpetual Change" by the view of the countryside from the cottage at Churchill.[9] He thought of humans completing the moon landing at a time when "our own environment is all fouled up", and a space mission that involved an explosion on the moon to observe its thickness and the subsequent Pakistani floods in 1970. "So I was thinking, ok you knock the moon off its axis and you're going to mess up the world."[37] The middle of the track features a polyrhythmic structure, where two pieces of music in different time signatures[c] are playing simultaneously.[39]
Sep 15, 2012
House Of Blues 2000 concert. Yes originally recorded "Perpetual Change" in 1971 on The Yes Album.
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I see the cold mist in the nightAnd watch the hills roll out of sightI watch in every single way,Inside out, outside in, every day
The sun can warm the coldest dawnAnd move the movement on the lawnI learn in every single day,Inside out, outside in, every way
And there you are,Making it up but you're sure that it is a star,And boy you'll seeIt's an illusion shining down in front of me,And then you'll sayEven in time we shall control the day,When what you'll seeDeep inside base controlling you and me
And one peculiar point I see,As one of many ones of meAs truth is gathered, I rearrange,Inside out, outside in, inside out, outside in,Perpetual change
And there you are,Saying we have the moon, so now the stars,When all you seeIs near disaster gazing down on you and me,And there you're standing,Saying we have the whole world in our hands,When all you'll see,Deep inside the world's controlling you and meYou'll see perpetual changeYou'll see perpetual change
And there you are,Making it up but you're sure that it is a star,And boy you'll seeIt's an illusion shining down in front of me,And then you'll sayEven in time we shall control the day,When all you'll seeDeep inside base controlling you and me
As mist and sun are both the same,We look on as pawns of their gameThey move to testify the day,Inside out, outside in, inside out, outside in,All of the wayAh, ah
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Chris Squire / Jon Anderson
Perpetual Change lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc
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| https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Perpetual-Change-David-Watkinson/dp/0859652971 |
"Perpetual Change" interview:
https://www.innerviews.org/inner/yes.html
The Yes Album is not considered part of the main sequence of Yes albums, which starts when Rick Wakeman joins the band for Fragile, but is has all the elements that make the band great. On “Perpetual Change” — co-written by Jon Anderson and Chris Squire — the lyrics start with a dreamy imagery of a country home setting and the change of seasons but the metaphor works for the life of the band, as well as life in general.
https://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/12/08/yes-perpetual-change-the-yes-album/
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