CLOSE TO THE EDGECLOSE TO THE EDGEA Commentary on Yes’ 1. Anderson / Howe, (c) 1. Atlantic Recording Corporation. Not daily, but often. This is remarkable to me for many. Not exactly current on the top 4. The basic necessities of life are a right, not a privilege. That seems entirely reasonable, doesn't it? Healthy food on the table, a sturdy roof overhead, a safe. European Communities Act 1972 1972 CHAPTER 68. An Act to make provision in connection with the enlargement of the European Communities to include the United Kingdom. The fact that poetical musings by a British. At times VERY obscure, they have in fact actually been studied by taking the lyric sheet and. Not simply garbled gibberish, these dramatic and colorful lyrics are pregnant with meaning and. Exactly. what these might be, however, is another question. And. finally, the question is always asked of ME, with a glimmer of hope in the eye. They think I might actually. This, then. is my response. I, too, still care. I am one. of the faithful who have lived with and studied these songs, and have found. And I am flattered to be. This music is still very important. At this point in my life I feel. People can catch glimpses of great glory through these. I hope. to be able to share the grandeur. I wish to make it clear, however, that I do NOT claim to know the original intent of the. What Jon Anderson meant by a particular line, he hasn’t told me. I do not claim. here to explain what he intended. They may mean something very. I present the annotated Close to the Edge. On the fringe of our normal, profane. The song deals with our. It is cyclical, ending where it begins, beginning where it. Put it on the CD player using the repeat function, and let it go. You’ll see what. I mean. This cyclical structure is a. Tales From Topographic Oceans, beginning with the dawn of. In the course of the journey we have. The piece is in 4 sections, relating. It takes us through. There is no other 1. ANYWHERE else within the history of human musical. A seasoned witch could. And rearrange your liver. And achieve it all with. Then taste the fruit of. Do not confuse the Vehicle Identification Number plate information with that found on the Fisher Body Number plate (trim tag). This is the Policy Speech for the Australian Labor Party, delivered by Gough Whitlam, at the Blacktown Civic Centre, in Sydney, on November 13, 1972. 1972 Porsche 911 RSR Recreation VIN: 9112102413 In late 1972 the Porsche RS road car and its racing cousin the RSR took the world by storm. In fact Porsche ended up. And assessing points to. A dewdrop can exalt us. And take away the plane. Down at the. by the corner / Not right away / Close to the edge, down by a. Not right away / Not right away. Crossed a line around the. Reaching out to call the. Passed around a moment. Getting over all the time. I had to worry. 13. Leaving all the changes. We relieve the tension. ONLY TO FIND OUT THE MASTER’S NAME1. Down at the end / Round by. Close to the Edge / Just. Seasons will pass you by. Now that it’s all over and. Now that you find, now that you’re whole. My eyes convinced, eclipsed with the younger moon attained with love. It changed as almost strained, amidst clear manna from above. I crucified my hate and. There is you, the time, the logic or the reasons we don’t understand. Sad courage claimed the. As armored movers took. There since the cord, the. Down at the edge close by. Close to the Edge around by. Close to the edge, down by the corner, down at the edge, `round by. Sudden call shouldn’t take. All in all the journey. As apart from any reality. Guessing problems only to. Passing paths that climb. As we cross from side to. Down at the end, round by. Close to the Edge. Seasons will pass you by. I get up, I get down. In her white lace she. The lady sadly looking. For the crucifixion of her. Through the duty she would. Asking only interest could. The eyes of honesty can. How many millions do we. I get up, I get down. In charge of who is. Do I look on blindly and. I see the way? 4. The truth is written all. How old will I be before I. The time between the notes. A constant vogue of. And space between the. As song and chance develop. Then according to the man. He turned around and. I shook my head and smiled. On the hill we viewed the. Called to witness cycles. And we reach all this with. Close to the edge, down by. Down at the end, round by. Seasons will pass you by. Now that it’s all over and. Called to the. seed, right to the sun. Now that you find, now. Seasons will pass you by, I get up, I get down. We begin in summer. The opening instrumental. Let it be, if you will, the first instant after the fall of man from grace in the garden of Eden. This. symbolizes, to me, civilization and the. It may, of course, just be music. In any event, when the singing starts. We start with Mankind in disgrace. He has been dis- grace- d. This is, frankly, the state we find. Full of hate, depression, sorrow, ignorance, etc. Grace is the power through which everything. Our dis- grace therefore. We live without God, without a sense of. To call us from our disgrace will be. God and our. purpose. The “you” here can equally apply to. Religion has been called the private actions of a man’s. This is one of the powerful. As happens in the whole happens in each. In short, the story of humanity. Close to the Edge is, in. YOUR story as well. Something is seasoned if it has been. And though witches. This is NOT necessarily evil, though. Witchcraft is VERY different from. Satanism, though few there are who understand this. Satanism espouses that EVIL is their. GOOD. Witchcraft espouses that there is great. NATURAL power in the earth that we can tap into and use for either good or evil. No one can change us but we ourselves. There is great. joy, peace, bliss to be found in this world, but no one can or will force us to make them a. Change almost always begins with a. Faith comes by hearing, and that by the Word of God. The seasoned witch is going to call. We’ve only barely begun, but there is such. The liver is the organ that removes. But there are greater impurities. There are impurities in the soul. These are the true pollutants. It is they that constitute out. The realm of the MIND is much more solid and. IDEAS of love, hope, peace, hatred, space, time, these are much more permanent than any. The physical body will die. But the mind WILL continue. Think of the tyrants of history. But the IDEAS still live! The might and power of Rome is. But what God said to Moses is. ALIVE and affecting people’s lives daily. Solid mental grace, then, is the. Like a rock.. the sure rock to build one’s. The opposite of the dis- grace in verse. A gift from God, undeniably. To cleanse our soul brings true fulfillment, limitlessly beyond any sort of temporal gratification that can be derived from. This. removes us from dis- grace, and returns us to the state of grace. We therefore begin to cleanse our. I take music to be a symbol for. It is only the divine revelation. This music, this proclamation from. God, is sufficient for all our spiritual needs, thus the words achieve it all. The proclamation of love, the higher. We don’t need. anything new to happen in order for us to return to the proper path. What is the fruit of man? I maintain that it is the same as the fruit. Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness. That is. our destiny, our purpose, our fruition. Our TRUE fruit; what we were created for; our real destiny. This has been recorded. In the hearts of those who know we have been called to a better way. And it is being lost even more. Losing all against the hour. The indwelling infinite spirit we sacrifice. We are, in fact, losing ALL. If. a man seeks to save his life, he shall lose it.. For you real YES scholars, you will. AWAKEN from the GOING FOR THE ONE album, where. Jon sings: Workings of man set to ply out historical life / Re- regaining the flower of. All awakening. all restoring you. Without the grace of God, without. Great and immeasurable hope. That is life in. general, as we usually know it. Normal, mortal consciousness. Fractured. analytical, pulling us constantly. ONWARD yet never going anywhere. The. never- ending spiral of increasing desire/examination. There are too many to. The entire realm of human consciousness is. Let’s think about baseball. Games won at home. Percentage of night. Batting. averages for second at bats with 2 men on base facing right handed pitchers.. On and on and on and on and... Leading EVERY single one. Every. idea, every single number and new statistic, invites comparison. Left handed. batters, during their second at bats. RBI IF there is only 1 out, but only a 1 out of. These are all leading. Every single one of them. ANY idea will lead you to a MILLION other. BUT, they lead ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE! In and of. themselves, they are meaningless. What does that have to do with the meaning or. This pulls us farther and farther away from. UNIVERSE. The ONENESS that is all and all. HOWEVER, the fact that they go. CAN exalt us, if we can properly. ASSESS (verse 5) it. Can’t even cover a whole leaf. Appearing only at. Yet, if only that dewdrop could talk! What processes of life and condensation. Where has the water been throughout. And what of the atoms. From whence did. they come? How long have they been here? If we can properly assess this. Instead of USING it or manipulating it, comparing or analyzing. REALLY is? The baseball example again. Statistics etc are examinations of the. RESULTS of our actions. But if we are. able to properly assess our actions, realizing the MIRACLES of the bodies that. ENTIRE UNIVERSE could have. NOTHING but a BIG EMPTY HOLE OF NOTHINGNESS, BASEBALL EXISTS, then. Though anything will LEAD us onward in our. INTRINSIC worth in and of itself. A manifestation / creation of the infinite. Its INTRINSIC worth, as opposed to. ASCRIBED / UTILITARIAN worth. If we could really see, if our way. BEYOND.. The music. All we need know is 1) What is. Let your spirit soar and you will know the answers long before. How would / do you define music? It’s important because, if you can’t define it then you don’t really. And if you don’t know. Music of the sun is. VERY, VERY important. Let’s give the professionals a. Here’s Random House: Music - The art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch to. Way to go Random House! As a working definition of music I can offer no better. Billions of tons of matter. The SOURCE of ALL. LIFE. Tales from Topographic Oceans, side 4: Nous. Sommes Du Soleil. It is the source. Now we are equipped to answer the primary question immediately. What is `The Music of the Sun?’ Compositions of various ideas and. ALL we. think, ALL we feel, ALL. This is the ENTIRE HUMAN EXPERIENCE, individually (MY life) and collectively (as a race of people). In the. beginning, God said, `Let. As I said before, the reflective nature of life is of profoundest.
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