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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.
by Keith Harris - on 11/25/2008 3:11pm "so not much of the stuff he wrote made sense" Depends on what you interpret as sense. If you look to blanket the imagination with clouds of sense, don't be surprised if you see nothing.
by ALM on 12/8/2008 1:00am "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". This part incredible match the voice of Anderson in a perfect way, like a instrument. When I read or watch anything about old civilizations, specially the Atlantis I remember some of the YES songs like this.
by Emma on 12/10/2008 10:33am this song is too f*in amazing, beautiful lyrics
by William Morris on 12/14/2008 10:35pm As a budding songwriter, I consider Yes to be the mecca of lyrical greatness. The way their lyrics are cryptic is what makes them so great. The writer has an image in mind when writing, but the beauty lies in the variety of interpretations from different people. Yes are the masters of having a message in mind, but leaving their words open to interpretation.
by Ivan Poteat on 2/10/2009 10:58pm Jon Anderson is the Master!
by Mike on 2/27/2009 12:23pm I always thought that their lyrics were similar to their album art - beautiful and interesting, yet contrary to the laws of logic that we are accustomed to.
by Alexander Ison Sanders on 3/11/2009 10:32pm I'm a 12th grade english student studying poetry. I'm doing an interpretation project, and I chose this song to interprete. In line 2 of II: Disallusion it translates to be, "There is no proof for what i saw, other than the fact that the information I have shown you is there to be heard." This obviously means that there IS a certain message he is trying to convey.
by Alexander Ison Sanders on 3/11/2009 10:51pm Keeping the title, "Starship Trooper" in mind, the artist could very well be talking about other beings. There knowledge of the land goes beyond this civilization, and before the "setting up of other roads" which in my opinion means religion. Being that there knowledge of the land is so vast, beyond human accountance of time, the line "Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember" would have to mean summers as in a chance for earth to flourish, and even longer winters (Ice Ages) in which nothing survives, there for there is no accountance for TIME.
by Alexander Ison Sanders on 3/11/2009 11:04pm Also, MORE logic that this song is NOT just "open for interpretation" is the simple fact that in lines 3 and 4 of stanza 5, it states "Take what I say in a diff'rent way and it's easy to see that this is all confusion." This guy frreal had a message he wanted to get out, sometimes just saying it bluntly can NOT be fully understood by the observer, and IS open to MISINTERPRETATION, which is excacly what the artist is trying to avoid.
by One-eye Jack on 3/14/2009 10:53pm ;) Notice how everyone in the valley of the blind thinks the other guy has tumors on either side of his nose.... Obscurity is in the tumor....er, eye of the beheld.
by cb on 3/17/2009 8:32am great lyrics mystical so time will remmember
by Dave Rave on 3/23/2009 1:42pm I don't know, I imagine the actual Heinlein novel could shed light. After the first two movements, I hear "Wurm" as the period when the Starship Trooper starts to trod across the landscape in his robotic suit and begins to lay waste to everything in sight. Thus, the first two movements may be people on the ground awaiting the attack; or perhaps the second is the Trooper contemplating his/her possible death during the upcoming battle.
by jamstriker on 4/13/2009 8:35pm the song lyrics are a prayer or homage to a higher extra-terrestrial civilization (though you see them THEM)..who travel through space time and share higher knowledge with primitive native cultures to help them become more civilized (setting up on other roads). If you do not understand (take what is said in a different way) the story then this is all confusion. "All summer" is time spent learning Long winters longer are excursions between stars or time between visits.
by zane on 4/15/2009 11:01pm well I guess it meant something to whoever wrote it- I like YES music but the lyrics are a bit odd. but I guess I have seen people so high that they were making alot of sense- college days of course. "stoney grounds we once knew"
by MVS on 4/17/2009 3:53am A qoute from one of the early yes interviews either 1 band member stated or Eddie Offord stated " Think of it as a sort of a movie sound painting". Yes uses poetry and many art forms. Also Jon Anderson is very spritual in nature according to his daughter who appeared on channel 2 PBS. The Relayer album has a terrific poem in the cover. Author Donald Lehmecle(Name spelling may be incorrect but the lines of the poem are unforgetable.)You need the sheeth the lp came in.
by Eric on 5/28/2009 7:29am I want Wurm to be played at my wake. It reminds me of the journey to the next life....
by Magamud on 6/9/2009 7:56pm This is about soul eternal and the many journeys when we lived in times of goodness as opposed to these times of evil and how the Starship Troopers would stop by and talk in sweet accustomed ways. So it is now and so it will be. Godspeed!
by zaman on 7/17/2009 11:08pm they are about the alternative views of reality and the wholeness inherent in seeing things as such.... ancient wisdom commonality of energy in all things, brotherhood... get out of your head and get experiential
by JCL on 7/24/2009 3:25am You have to let yourself see and realize the shapes that the music is making and then u will be able to see its actually alive through itself and through you and your expanding mind..I find the lyrics celebrating this beautiful occurrence and it cannot make any sense outside the music as its part of the shapes in the moment
by jkn_würm on 8/11/2009 5:56pm STARSHIP TROOPER, GO SAILING ON BY.. YES, THE BEST BAND EVER!
by Abe on 10/19/2009 10:19pm You really need to drop some Orange Sunshine. It then all becomes clear and is quite easily understood......
by Rick on 10/24/2009 3:28am I agree with an earlier post that Anderson was using the words as lyrical sounds, without intending them to be understood. Yes was meant to be a soundscape to be absorbed from your headphones, not analyzed. Only Yes was complex enough to do that and only Yes fans are complex and deep enough to understand it. GOD, that band was complex; I play bass and often find learning ONE Yes song more challenging, musically, than three songs by another band. It takes genius to use simple words that make little sense to create a feeling that clear lyrics could not.

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