TobTo Be Over

[motoraway]

What exactly is being sung at the end of "To Be Over" ?

[BillGuitar]

Ask Jon.

[BillGuitar]

If anyone knows, it's him. Or Trudy:hearts:

[Andrea YouAndI]

I thought Cinderella transcribed it once. Cindy, where are you? :wavey:

And by the way, what is a Tobto be over? :thinking:

[cinderella]

I copied and pasted this from one of my other posts here.
You can read the story....


"New som du lay
sah du rah
sah du lay
tu sah rah,
du sah dulay,
sah du rah,
tey tu santeh."


From Notes From The Edge -back-issues/0172
Someone recently asked about the unintelligible lyrics at the end of "To Be Over." I'm pleased to be able to say that I can actually help out here. Back in the 70s, when I was publishing my science fiction fanzine KHATRU, one of my regular contributors was a guy named Freff, who's had columns in
various music magazines (primarily MUSICIAN and KEYBOARD) over theyears.

He did a fair amount of artwork for me, and some writing.
In June 1976 he interviewed Jon Anderson, and I published a transcript of that interview in my February 1978 issue. And Freff brought up that point.



So here is the relevant portion of this interview. It is Copyright
1978 by Jeffrey D. Smith and Jeffrey A. Frane.


FREFF: How about that incomprehensible chant at the end of "To Be
Over"?

JON: It's just sounds.

FREFF: Not words?

JON: It isn't words. It was never meant to be any kind of
mysterious thing. I did want a sound, like a lot of people
doing a little song, but I didn't want any words. It goes
"New som du lay sah du rah sah du lay tu sah rah, du sah du
lay, sah du rah, tey tu santeh." It can be interpreted any
way you want. Have you got an interpretation?

FREFF: Well, not really. Using a graphic equalizer to try and pull
it out the best I could get was a batch of sounds that might
have been "someday, someone..."

JON: Really?

FREFF: It was *very* annoying. A conundrum.

JON: It was never meant to be. I think I wrote it down, didn't I?

FREFF: Nope.

JON: That's where it went wrong. I should have done that. It was
very simple, really, but instead of going lalala I went du
sah du ray, etc. I didn't really want to write any more
lyrics at that point.