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I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way.
Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life.
Make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time to make you wise.
'Cause it's time, is time in time with your time and its news it captured
For the queen to use.
Move me on to any black square,
Use me any time you want,
Just remember that the goal
Is for us all to capture all we want.
Yea, yea, yea.
Don't surround yourself with yourself,
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant comment to me,
Initial it with loving care
Don't surround
Yourself.
'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit Don't surround
Didda. Yourself with yourself.
Don't surround yourself with yourself, Don't surround yourself.
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant comment to me, Send an instant
Initial it with loving care Comment to me. Don't surround Yourself.
'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured.
so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way.
Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life.
Make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time to make you wise.
'Cause it's time, is time in time with your time and its news it captured
For the queen to use.
Move me on to any black square,
Use me any time you want,
Just remember that the goal
Is for us all to capture all we want.
Yea, yea, yea.
Don't surround yourself with yourself,
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant comment to me,
Initial it with loving care
Don't surround
Yourself.
'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit Don't surround
Didda. Yourself with yourself.
Don't surround yourself with yourself, Don't surround yourself.
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant comment to me, Send an instant
Initial it with loving care Comment to me. Don't surround Yourself.
'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured.
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Don't be selfish
Take a step back and rethink what you are doing
chess=life ("me" and "them")
I'VE SEEN ALL GOOD PEOPLE TURN THEIR HEADS EACH DAY
SO SATISFIED I'M ON MY WAY.
Soldier, so sure he's doing the right thing, all his fellow citizens cheering him.
TAKE A STRAIGHT AND STRONGER COURSE TO THE CORNER OF YOUR LIFE.
Follow orders blindly, so that you end up at the corner of your life, dead. (the other corner of a chess board, where you can be easily captured)
MAKE THE WHITE QUEEN RUN SO FAST SHE HASN'T GOT TIME TO MAKE YOU A WIFE.
If you focus on making an enemy out of different nations, they will be concentrating their efforts on defending themselves (RUNNING FAST) instead of possibly developing a good relationship.
'CAUSE IT'S TIME, IS TIME IN TIME WITH YOUR TIME AND ITS NEWS IT CAPTURED
FOR THE QUEEN TO USE.
reference to chess again, when if it's the opponent's move, you are suspended in time, and the opponent sees "the news" (your movements) and the queen can now use it to her advantage. Same with real-time war, when the news is captured, information is used by the media to one nation's advantage. news is captured in a short video/a photo, that can be manipulated.
MOVE ME ON TO ANY BLACK SQUARE,
USE ME ANY TIME YOU WANT,
JUST REMEMBER THAT THE GOAL
IS FOR US ALL TO CAPTURE ALL WE WANT.
YEA, YEA, YEA.
an individual is used by the government, just like a chess piece, in the Statist view of black ("our") and white ("their") worlds. This view is mocked by saying "yeah yeah yeah", ironically. From now on the song gives us a different view, and advice follows:
DON'T SURROUND YOURSELF WITH YOURSELF,
Don't look at the world as only "us" and "them". Don't identify yourself with either black or white chess pieces. Go mingle.
MOVE ON BACK TWO SQUARES
Moving forward and attacking isn't progress. If you refrain from attacking, it is the REAL move forward ("MOVE ON"), although it's seen as a move backwards ("MOVE BACK").
At the beginning of a chess game, a pawn can move forward 2 squares. But what if he didn't? What if he said no to starting a war and did the opposite thing?
SEND AN INSTANT KARMA TO ME
Don't initiate violence. Initiate love.
chess=life ("me" and "them")
I'VE SEEN ALL GOOD PEOPLE TURN THEIR HEADS EACH DAY
SO SATISFIED I'M ON MY WAY.
Soldier, so sure he's doing the right thing, all his fellow citizens cheering him.
TAKE A STRAIGHT AND STRONGER COURSE TO THE CORNER OF YOUR LIFE.
Follow orders blindly, so that you end up at the corner of your life, dead. (the other corner of a chess board, where you can be easily captured)
MAKE THE WHITE QUEEN RUN SO FAST SHE HASN'T GOT TIME TO MAKE YOU A WIFE.
If you focus on making an enemy out of different nations, they will be concentrating their efforts on defending themselves (RUNNING FAST) instead of possibly developing a good relationship.
'CAUSE IT'S TIME, IS TIME IN TIME WITH YOUR TIME AND ITS NEWS IT CAPTURED
FOR THE QUEEN TO USE.
reference to chess again, when if it's the opponent's move, you are suspended in time, and the opponent sees "the news" (your movements) and the queen can now use it to her advantage. Same with real-time war, when the news is captured, information is used by the media to one nation's advantage. news is captured in a short video/a photo, that can be manipulated.
MOVE ME ON TO ANY BLACK SQUARE,
USE ME ANY TIME YOU WANT,
JUST REMEMBER THAT THE GOAL
IS FOR US ALL TO CAPTURE ALL WE WANT.
YEA, YEA, YEA.
an individual is used by the government, just like a chess piece, in the Statist view of black ("our") and white ("their") worlds. This view is mocked by saying "yeah yeah yeah", ironically. From now on the song gives us a different view, and advice follows:
DON'T SURROUND YOURSELF WITH YOURSELF,
Don't look at the world as only "us" and "them". Don't identify yourself with either black or white chess pieces. Go mingle.
MOVE ON BACK TWO SQUARES
Moving forward and attacking isn't progress. If you refrain from attacking, it is the REAL move forward ("MOVE ON"), although it's seen as a move backwards ("MOVE BACK").
At the beginning of a chess game, a pawn can move forward 2 squares. But what if he didn't? What if he said no to starting a war and did the opposite thing?
SEND AN INSTANT KARMA TO ME
Don't initiate violence. Initiate love.
chess=life ("me" and "them")
I'VE SEEN ALL GOOD PEOPLE TURN THEIR HEADS EACH DAY
SO SATISFIED I'M ON MY WAY.
Soldier, so sure he's doing the right thing, all his fellow citizens cheering him.
TAKE A STRAIGHT AND STRONGER COURSE TO THE CORNER OF YOUR LIFE.
Follow orders blindly, so that you end up at the corner of your life, dead. (the other corner of a chess board, where you can be easily captured)
MAKE THE WHITE QUEEN RUN SO FAST SHE HASN'T GOT TIME TO MAKE YOU A WIFE.
If you focus on making an enemy out of different nations, they will be concentrating their efforts on defending themselves (RUNNING FAST) instead of possibly developing a good relationship.
'CAUSE IT'S TIME, IS TIME IN TIME WITH YOUR TIME AND ITS NEWS IT CAPTURED
FOR THE QUEEN TO USE.
reference to chess again, when if it's the opponent's move, you are suspended in time, and the opponent sees "the news" (your movements) and the queen can now use it to her advantage. Same with real-time war, when the news is captured, information is used by the media to one nation's advantage. news is captured in a short video/a photo, that can be manipulated.
MOVE ME ON TO ANY BLACK SQUARE,
USE ME ANY TIME YOU WANT,
JUST REMEMBER THAT THE GOAL
IS FOR US ALL TO CAPTURE ALL WE WANT.
YEA, YEA, YEA.
an individual is used by the government, just like a chess piece, in the Statist view of black ("our") and white ("their") worlds. This view is mocked by saying "yeah yeah yeah", ironically. From now on the song gives us a different view, and advice follows:
DON'T SURROUND YOURSELF WITH YOURSELF,
Don't look at the world as only "us" and "them". Don't identify yourself with either black or white chess pieces. Go mingle.
MOVE ON BACK TWO SQUARES
Moving forward and attacking isn't progress. If you refrain from attacking, it is the REAL move forward ("MOVE ON"), although it's seen as a move backwards ("MOVE BACK").
At the beginning of a chess game, a pawn can move forward 2 squares. But what if he didn't? What if he said no to starting a war and did the opposite thing?
SEND AN INSTANT KARMA TO ME
Don't initiate violence. Initiate love.
Ok the entire song is clearly allegorical. Chess is merely the metaphorical vehicle used to drive forward the intended message. Yes you've guessed it.. they are against the shallow, capitalist, avaricious conformist society we live in.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way.
(This is your every day Joe, not bad people of course, but brainwashed enough in a state of false consciousness to be able to turn away from the negative and oppressive aspects of our society in order to maintain the equilibrium of happiness in his own life. To use a common proverb: 'What you don't know won't hurt you')
Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life.
Make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time to make you wise.
(A reference to deviating from the 'prescribed' course of life. 'Straight' possibly referring to the heterosexual and marital norm that is intended for everybody to reach 'normality'. The idea of 'corner' suggest a small and limited space with no options for movement.
White always represents 'honesty, truth, goodness' (not saying I agree with this - but tends to be the way it is in literature). So the good power (the queen is the most powerful piece on the chess board) work so fast, become so absorbed in work and trying to beat each other (the rat race!) that we are not being given the opportunity to become wise (we aren't tuned in to receive wisdom!).
'Cause it's time, is time, in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
(So society has defined what 'time' has come to mean. We have defined time as being signified by a clock. So for example, we commonly work from 9 to 5 ('in time with your time'). 'Your time' being the time you spend working so therefore the implication is that the only time you have to YOURSELF is what can arrange around 'its' time. "News" is referred to anything created as a product of the 'working man's' activities. This is then used specifically to benefit the 'queen' aka the ruling class (the fat cats!)
Move me on to any black square,
Use me any time you want,
(There is only one piece on the chess board that HAS to move to black squares and that is a black bishop. If we assume then if white represents 'goodness' (not that I necessarily agree with this symbolism)
then black represents badness, evil, destruction etc. So moving 'me' on to a black square would suggest that negatives of society (ie could be religion for eg the oppression religion has caused and played a part in keeping people in conformist, capitalist society) are manipulating the movements we take in life and can lead us down paths that aren't enriching for the soul or the mind but rather used to move us into places (or pigeon holes)that suit the system.
Just remember that the goal
Is for us all to capture all we want.
Yea, yea, yea.
(Quite simply capitalism....need we say more!)
Don't surround yourself with yourself,
Move on back two squares,
(Yes of course....castling in Chess....heard it all before....Bit more to to it than that wouldn't you say?!
This would suggest the requirement of success in our society to deny your individuality and conform. Whatever you do./......never surround yourself with 'yourself'!!! god forbid!! Don't think you've got any kind of 'real' individuality! Well you can if you want... but be prepared to be at an extreme disadvantage in life, you're gonna lose. ('move back two squares')
Send an instant karma to me,
Initial it with loving care
(Another religious reference. WE are going to reap what we sow (karma). The essence of the church mentality. you might burn in hell......but Jesus loves you! Dont forget that!
THEN I got totally mindfucked by your closing interpretation.
I don't think about war when I listen to the music of yes.It's simple... don't be a selfish person, don't surround yourself with yourself.
The first part of the song is about gathering Karmic debt by being smug as one advances through the Chessboard of Life, "the goal is for us all to capture all we want", to ignore love "make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time to make you a wife" for personal gain. Turn your heads, don't help anyone else, I'm so satisfied I'm on the fast track for success (on my way), implying 'you're not' - all anti-Karmic.
"Send an Instant Karma to me: initial it with loving care" sort of represents acknowledgement of an inappropriate lifestyle, and the lyric suggests scoffing at the notion.