Lyrics to
Parallels

This version of Parallels was released by Yes in 1977.

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When you’ve tried most everything and nothing’s taking you higher
When you’ve come to realise, you’ve been playing with fire
Hear me when I say to you, it’s really down to your heart

It’s the beginning of a new love in sight
You’ve got the way to make it all happen
Set it spinning turning roundabout
Create a new dimension
When we are winning we can stop and shout
Making love towards perfection

I’ve been all around the world and seen so many faces
Young and old a story told, filling in my spaces
Now without a trace of doubt, I feel it every hour

It’s the beginning of a new love inside
Could be an ever opening flower
No hesitation when we’re all about
To build a shining tower
No explanations, need to work it out
You know we’ve got the power

Parallel our sights
And we will find, that we, we need, to be, where we, belong
Parallel our heights
Display our rights and wrongs, and always, keep it STRONG

It’s the beginning of a new love in sight
Could be an ever opening flower
No explanations, need to work it out
You know we’ve got the power

It’s the beginning of a new love inside
You’ve got the way to make it all happen
Set it spinning turning roundabout
Create a new dimension
When we are winning we can stop and shout
Making love towards perfection

Jon Anderson Vocals Steve Howe Electric guitar and vocals Chris
Squire Bass guitar and vocals Rick Wakeman Church organ* Alan White
Drums and percussion

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About Lyrics and Parallels by Yes

When you decide to study the lyrics to Parallels, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Yes. Some of the lyrics to Parallels have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Yes and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Parallels if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Parallels" means the words set to the music of Parallels, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Yes. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Parallels and the lyrics to Parallels are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Yes who came here looking just for the lyrics to Parallels, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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