Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
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*The song Birthright - a political statement about Britain dropping an atomic bomb in North Australia and not warning the aborigines of the impending devastation with no concern of the innocent lives and loss of their home and land. At the end of the song, Jon is not talking in aborigine tongue, just some made up words! From Rockstars interview, Jon Anderson. - "Steve came along with this song called Birthright and I ___ the lyrics to the song that Steve had brought were very very simplistic and they really didn't mean anything strong. So I decided to make a break for it and state something that had happened in the 50's. Where in sorta discovering the atom bomb, the British government had set off the atom bomb in the north of Australia without getting in touch with all the aborigine tribes. Beacause very simply, they didn't know where they all were. And it's written down in the histories of the aborigine in a book entitled, "Songlines." They call it the Day of The Cloud. It's funny that Steve had written the lyric, 'This place ain't big enough for stars and stripes. This place ain't big enough for red and white', and it made me think. Communisim - democracy. Communisim doesn't work and democracy in tis overall situation doesn't seem to work properly. It just seems to cloud the issues you know. Maybe there's a future for mankind on the planet where we will realize our all emcompassing Birthright to be here on the planet and that something in the not too distant future will guide us towards a more understanding of who and what we are."
*There was a law suit between Yes and ABWH about ABWH using the word Yes in advertisements, ABWH won the suit. The catalog number for the ABWH album is 90126, sounds familiar? 90125 LP was named from a its catalog number.
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