Music has always played an important role in my life. Both of my parents are musicians and over the past 20 years, they have done me the favor of introducing me to a variety of genres and artists.
I had heard songs from the band Yes over the years as it was my dad’s favorite group, but I had never paid attention to the lyrics of their mystical music. I was prompted to look closer at what this group of men sung about for school and discovered a rather amazing message within the song “Sound Chaser”.
There is nothing to say that this was the message they intended, but I believe that the beauty of music is in the eye of the beholder, and the most amazing thing about it is that you can make it yours.
Although it was not asked of me to analyze each line of a song, this is what I found myself doing. I was inspired by what I unveiled and can only hope that you will be too. I ask you to please first read the lyrics without looking at my interpretation. Try to make sense of it, and then look over what I believe is being conveyed.
“Sound Chaser” by Yes
“Faster moment spent spread tales of change within the sound, / Counting form through rhythm electric freedom Moves to counterbalance stars expound our conscience / All to know and see the look in your eyes. / Passing time will reach as nature relays to set the scene, / New encounters spark a true fruition, / Guiding lines we touch them, our bodies balance out the waves / As we accelerate our days to look in your eyes. / From the moment I reached out to hold, I felt a sound, / And what touches our soul slowly moves as touch rebounds. / And to know that tempo will continue / Lost in trance of dances as rhythm takes another turn, / As is my want, I only reach to look in your eyes.”
“Sound Chaser” Interpretation by Cara Tomlinson
The past is the past, so use music to explain what has passed, recalling those times with the emotional and thrilling freedom of rhythm. Change is good, though, because finding something that balances or completes you helps develop your conscience, which in turn makes you a better person and ultimately helps you reach an ultimate understanding.
Time will pass as the world changes, and the decisions we make lead us to new endeavors, accomplishments, and individuals who trigger this true self-fulfillment and fundamental understanding. As humans, we must accept what life throws at us and we do so very carefully yet unknowingly as each day passes. With each challenge of life and each acceptance of these challenges we are getting closer to reaching the ultimate and complete understanding.
Ever since I embraced life and all of its challenges I have felt completeness. This completeness means to wholly understand that the reflection of humanity gradually changes as time passes but that the rhythm of life will continue and endure so greatly that it is almost dream-like, as it has no restrictions. As the tempo of life shifts yet again, my only desire is to reach this complete understanding.
I am not religious and I am unchained in my beliefs of the world around me. There may be religious undertones in this song or my interpretation and there may not be. Once again, music is what you make it. For me, this song is telling me to embrace life, every single part of it. If I can do this, I will be at peace with this world and myself. An ultimate understanding may differ from person to person, because it is your ultimate understanding.
Here's to facing challenges, accepting changes, and accomplishing a complete understanding, whatever that may be.
"Sound Chaser" by Yes - lyrics retrieved from http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/yes/soundchaser.htm...
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