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"Our Song" was written by Yes members Jon Anderson (vocals), Trevor Rabin (guitars and keyboards), Chris Squire (bass), Alan White (drums) and Tony Kaye (keyboards). [1] The lyrics make references to the song "Rule, Britannia!" and the city of Toledo, Ohio which is mentioned prominently in the first verse as "just another good stop along the good king's highway" and "the silver city".
It explicitly relates to Cohen's Jewish roots, echoing the words of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer. [1] [2] In synagogues, the prayer is recited during the High Holy Days. [3] The song was written after Cohen's improvised concerts for Israeli soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur War. [4] The song is sung as a duet with Jewish ...
The song was written at the request of the band's record label, who wanted to produce a song based on the popular book The Prayer of Jabez (2000). Although the band did not want to write it at first, they eventually relented and recorded it. Lyrically, "Bless Me Indeed" asks God for blessing, paralleling Jabez's prayer in 1 Chronicles.
According to Anderson, the song's lyrics were inspired by the concept of "local history", the current three-thousand year window of history, outside of which mankind has little visibility or understanding. [24] Rabin developed "I Am Waiting" with ease and little effort, taking him one day to put the music together.
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Rolling Stone listed "Like a Prayer" among "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The accompanying music video for "Like a Prayer", directed by Mary Lambert, shows Madonna witnessing a white woman being sexually assaulted and subsequently killed by a group of white men. While a black man is arrested for the crime, Madonna hides in a church for ...
"Wonderous Stories" is a song by the English progressive rock band Yes, released in September 1977 as the first single from their eighth studio album, Going for the One. It was written by lead vocalist Jon Anderson , who gained inspiration for the song one morning during his stay in Montreux , Switzerland where the band recorded the album.
Don't you know that I am right here? Spinnin' out, waitin' for ya to pull me in I can see you're lonely down there Don't you know that I am right here? [Post-Chorus] Spinnin' out, waitin' for ya ...