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The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun

Released by Yes in 1973
From the Album: Tales From Topographic Oceans |

This version of The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun was released by Yes in 1973.

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The Ancient probes still further into the past beyound the
point of remembering. Here Steve’s guitar is pivotal in sharpening
reflection on the beauties and treasures of lots civilisations,
Indian, Chinese, Central American, Atlantean. These and other people
left an immense treasure of knowledge.

As one with the knowledge and magic of the source
Attuned to the majesty of music
They marched as one with earth

Sol, Dhoop
Sun
Ilios
Naytheet
Ah Kin
Saule
Tonatiuh
Qurax
Gunes, Grian
Surie
Ir
Samse

So the flowering creativity of life wove its web face to face with
the shallow
And their gods sought out and conquered
Ah Kin

Do the leaves of green stay greener through the autumn
Does the colour of the sun turn crimson white
Does a shadow come between us in the winter
Is the movement really light

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
along without you
along without you

Where does reaon stop and killing just take over
Does a lamb cry out before we shoot it dead
Are there many more in comfort understanding
Is the movement in the head

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
along without you
along without you


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Yes has released many songs over the years besides The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun. Yes released songs from 1969 to 2001 spanning across albums like Yes, Time And A Word, The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Going For The One, Tormato, Drama, 90125, Big Generator, Union, Talk, Keys To Ascension, Keys To Ascension 2, Open Your Eyes, The Ladder, and Magnification. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Yes.

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About Lyrics and The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun by Yes

The lyrics to The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Yes used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Yes and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun by Yes. 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 The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun" means the words set to the music of The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun, 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 The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun and the lyrics to The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun 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 The Ancient: Giants Under The Sun, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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