I Would Have Waited Forever

[The Mystic]

Hey!

Can anyone tell me what the song, "I Would Have Waited Forever" is about?"

Any input on this would be appreciated!

[GoD57]

Hey!

Can anyone tell me what the song, "I Would Have Waited Forever" is about?"

Any input on this would be appreciated!



Can't help you. Sorry.


Bill

[kirk]

It's about 5 minutes long and seems like 20.

K

[CybrKhatru]

I dunno...it sounds like a Jon "love song" to me. But honestly, that's just a guess. I've never heard Anderson talk about this track.

[FatherG]

The next tour?

The Domino's delivery guy?

Chris to get out of the tub?

[Melissa]

I'd have to go with some kind of love song.

What does it matter, really, what any of their songs are "about." Might as well just ask, "What's a khatru?" :lmao:

[muff]

I'd have to go with some kind of love song.

What does it matter, really, what any of their songs are "about." Might as well just ask, "What's a khatru?" :lmao:

does a cat do, doo doo's,

oopps miss-read your post, khatru not cat do, :eeek:

[muff]

Hey!

Can anyone tell me what the song, "I Would Have Waited Forever" is about?"

Any input on this would be appreciated!

I thought it was a chant from Yesfans everywhere awaiting the next tour, ;)

[Full Tilt Boogie]

It's about 5 minutes long and seems like 20.

What he said.

As with all Anderson lyrics, you could spend/waste a lifetime trying to interpret them and, ultimately, come up anything which takes your fancy...or nothing at all.

Unfortunately, the album from which it's comes, 'Union', is even worse than 'Open Your Eyes' (or 'Close Your Ears', as it's referred to in some circles), and that's saying something: indeed, by the majority of fans, it's widely regarded as the worst series of songs they ever produced. Wakeman and Howe publicly disown it - that should give an idea of precisely what regard it is held in by the musicians who produced it - before having their work ruthlessly over-dubbed by session players prior to its release.

I think when Jon sings "I would have waited fur-eh-vuuurr, for you to come into my life" pretty much gives you all need to know about 'what the song's about'. Other than that, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over what the rest is about. It, the entire album, was only a management-inspired plan to make money and was never a serious work of integrity.

[sam]

Some say that Yes' lyrics make no sense. My boyfriend says their lyrics are nonsensical, I say that perhaps he's right but I don't care. A song doesn't always have to make sense for it to be of any worth, sometimes the sounds of the words and music together can just sound beautiful together. I've not yet heard the song you're talking about as I'm still in the process of gathering Yes' music together, I'm doing it bit-by-bit, one album at a time every month as it's a nice little something to look forward to.

[Full Tilt Boogie]

Some say that Yes' lyrics make no sense. My boyfriend says their lyrics are nonsensical, I say that perhaps he's right but I don't care. A song doesn't always have to make sense for it to be of any worth, sometimes the sounds of the words and music together can just sound beautiful together. I've not yet heard the song you're talking about as I'm still in the process of gathering Yes' music together, I'm doing it bit-by-bit, one album at a time every month as it's a nice little something to look forward to.

Bingo! As any, regardless of how ever passing, perusal of Sigur Rós would support. :D

[blitzjg]

I was told that Khatru means Winter in Siberian, or whatever language they speak. hence the song is about a Siberian Winter.

[Vic Anderson]

its about jon getting god into this life

[YesCarolinita]

No, no, no-way been when Jon and I were together, he wrote the lyrics for me specifically. He is still waiting... Or am I? LOL.

I guess the meaning is what you believe it to be or want it to be.

[pianozach]

Not knowing the behind-the-scenes drama that enveloped the album when I first heard it, I thought Jon was singing about the Union of the two Yes bands, and how happy it made him feel.

Silly me.

[cinderella]

This doesn't say what the song is about, but Steve talked about it in an interview.


"This song very much has the Anderson-Howe look about it. There's a lot of structure from me, a more ethereal 'Brother of Mine' feel, if you like, in which it keeps making transitions. The track is very Howe and the lyrics are very Anderson."

Steve Howe - Guitar World magazine (1991)

[nitrus]

It's about everyone's quest of looking for God, looking for Heaven not realizing God is within us anywhere we go, and Heaven is a place right here, right now. We hope that if we wait long enough, if we're patient, Heaven will come to us, but that's not true, it's right here, for ourselves to be found.

[The Whale]

(Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Jonathan Elias)
I would have waited forever - For you to return into my life
I would have waited forever - I would have given you everything I
had
I would have waited forever - There's no question, no question at
all

So true in the prize, would you wait for me?
All because you got burned, so you took what you needed.
Some will always turn away, say it's reason enough;
It's another game of exploration.
Something calls at reverse and it comes to you;
Experience everything as it comes true.

So - It will be then
Change - It will happen
See - That we feel it
All - Is completed.

Don't you want the world to stop short of giving?
Anytime of night or day, the magic things you love.
Everybody hurts when you shout, when you walk away;
Talk about it according to you.

I would have waited forever - For you to return into my life
I would have waited forever - To give you everything I had
I would have waited forever - There's no question about it at all

So inbetween the perfect flame of you, this love will never let you
down.
Just take it as it comes, for everything will come around.

You put your hand up: stop the flow of where you're going to;
It's another game called exploration.
How we imagine everything that we think we're going through;
It's another reason to make the break.
Everyone will move with you now to the riverside;
Experience everything, but go with the landslide.

I would have waited forever - For you to return into my life
I would have waited forever - To give you everything I had
I would have waited forever - No question in my body and soul
Forever...

I used to think this was another love,spirit, eternity, time theme song but being that it is on the Union album and it did come just after the hardest period of Yes history it dose seem to sound more like John and Steve talking to Chris about the yes name and the yes sound. The holding up your hand part really makes me think of court.... I don't know just my take. But as Cindy pointed out even Steve Howe referenced how this song is a Jon/Steve song.... and were were Jon and Steve just a Year or so before Union? Not in Yes. I think ultimitly this song is more about the makeing up then it was the break.

[nitrus]

It's about everyone's quest of looking for God, looking for Heaven not realizing God is within us anywhere we go, and Heaven is a place right here, right now. We hope that if we wait long enough, if we're patient, Heaven will come to us, but that's not true, it's right here, for ourselves to be found.

By the way, this is not exactly my interpretation, but Jon said this about the song in an interview a few years ago...;)

[Lulu Mortice]

It's a reference to Australian Yesfanz who have indeed waited forever...2 tours only....1973 and 2003....and the rest of you complain.