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Starship Trooper Lyrics

Artist: Yes
Album: The Yes Album

I. Life Seeker
(Anderson)

Sister Bluebird flying high above,
Shine your wings forward to the sun.
Hide the myst'ries of life on your way.
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word.
What you don't know, I have never heard.

Starship Trooper, go sailing on by,
Catch my soul, catch the very night.
Hide the moment from my eager eyes.
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul.
What you can't see, can't be very whole.

Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that,
In the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.

Mother life, hold firmly on to me.
Catch my knowledge higher than the day.
Lose as much as only you can show.
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word.
What I don't know, I have never shared.

II. Disillusion
(Squire)

Loneliness is a pow'r that we possess to give or take away forever.
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the fact there shown before you.
Take what I say in a diff'rent way and it's easy to see
that this is all confusion.
As I see a new day in me, I can also show if you and you may follow.

Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that,
In the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.

III: Wurm (Instruemtal)
(Howe)

Comments/Interpretations
by Bald Joe on 5/20/2008 11:41pm I still find Yes lyrics a bit obscure and cryptic. I encourage anyone who has intesting interpretations to post here. Best, Joe
by Great King Rat on 6/10/2008 8:00pm These lyrics are phenomenal. The story these three men weave is really brilliant. Wish I could help you with an interpretation Joe, but maybe it's better we don't.
by trolinghome on 6/17/2008 4:00pm What? Do you live in a closet??
by ZorkFox on 6/20/2008 11:35am I'm afraid I have to agree with Joe. The lyrics surpass obscurity into some new dimension of anti-logic and non-comprehension. :P Most of the lines are like "Engrish"—all the individual words make sense, but the whole thing is meaningless.
by Juergen on 6/30/2008 5:45pm All i can add is, that "würm" is a beautiful river where i live and also is the name of the last ice age in middle europe. i don´t know what it has to do with this song...
by kbman on 6/30/2008 11:21pm 2nd verse - though you've seen THERE ... KNEW the knowledge of the land ... RELEASE as much as only you can show ... Though you see ME please ... ... easy to SAY that this is all confusion [I've hear a live version with "see" but the original Yes Album has "say"] I can also show IT T'you and you may follow Much of their stuff comes from Indian prophesy - as in Hindu India, Vedic scriptures and such. "Wondrous Stories" is about listening to a guru speaking prophesy. Long winters, longer than time can remember? - May be the case for Britain if the salt conveyor flow stops ala "Day After Tomorrow" ... Read "Autobiography of a Yogi" for background.
by jtomlinson on 7/1/2008 1:30pm if wurm has to do with an ice age then "winters longer than you can remember" would make perfect sense in that context.
by Havok on 7/4/2008 8:18am They all make sense in your soul, but not in your heart, it's hard to explain, but Yes lyrics are beutiful in many ways, to those who can understand them...
by boriskitty on 7/11/2008 11:28am I read somewhere years ago that Jon Anderson doesn't think about lyrics the way most people do. He thinks of the voice as being another instrument in the music. And the lyrics are not always meant to have specific meaning.
by GrinfilledCelt on 7/15/2008 12:31am It is obscure but not without meaning. This song haunts me.
by petter on 8/8/2008 1:58pm its it's easy to say that this is all confusion. say not see, right?
by Rob on 8/10/2008 9:09pm Obscure? Of course. Beautiful music. Wonderful fucking music. Awesome, incredible music. Makes me cry.
by Tony on 8/16/2008 2:30pm Though you see them, please don´t tell a soul. It´s about aliens of course - STARSHIP TROOPERS
by strange-magic on 9/1/2008 2:10pm Bald Joe, Yes is music you have to feel with your heart, not interpret with your brain. Enjoy.
by Sean on 9/2/2008 8:41pm they are lyrical sounds. the meaning is less important than the fit in the structure of the music. listen to tales of topographic oceans or much of their later work, it is more evident there
by Frank on 9/6/2008 12:36pm I must say I love these lyric more than any Ive heard , could be due to they bring back some great memories as well, I think their lyrics fit their music , I cant see the common lyrics of I broke up with my girlfriend and want her back ..... in a YES song
by george(up the irons...) on 9/20/2008 1:20pm thrilic song just a great work.....
by W cooper on 9/28/2008 7:48pm this song is supposed to be haunting for the profane. But for those who live the path of the great work view it as mythology.... Mystery Babylon
by trolinghome on 10/6/2008 4:06pm ya can't land saucers on ice fields. ya had to build further south. thus the peruvian landing fields. our ancestors musta knew the language. duh- get offa yous ipods and listen-you fricks
by Jon Anderson on 11/11/2008 9:32pm These lyrics are awwwwwwwsome. They speak to me in sweet, accustomed ways.
by Roblob on 11/23/2008 4:59pm Sean is right. Anderson usually chose words that are pleasing to the ear. You also gotta remember that he did a LOT of acid and other psychedelics in the early years, so not much of the stuff he wrote made sense.

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