(Image: "Earth STS118" - NASA)
"...dreaming here beside me
you breathe across my skin..."
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Lyrics:
Home Planet
lain beside the surf
lazy watching waves
rise and fall and surge
sand and sun and sound
all is perfection
all is perfection
leaning back on tree
branching canopy
shade and breeze and calm
watching dogs and children run
all is perfection
all is perfection
stones in distant shapes
sail against horizon
clouds a sea of waves
silent, slide away
all is perfection
all is perfection
dreaming here beside me, you
breathe across my skin
time does not exist
all without, within
all is perfection
all is perfection
(home is where the heart is...)
About the song:
I can't recall how this one started, but musically, it was intended to capture a little bit of the feel I get from listening to early Yes - especially passages created by guitarist Steve Howe... Lyrically, on the other hand, it was intended to evoke what an astronaut trapped in a space station might be feeling as he recalls life on Earth... Later, a listener pointed outto me that there is a post-human element present in the whole thing, and I instantly got the feel of a post-human entity reminiscing about being human...