Ritual: Nous Sommes Du Soleil

And now we finally make it to the last track from Yes' double album Tales from Topographic Oceans. This song is probably the most known because it was played in concert for years.

To me, this song always evokes memories of the aftermath of some huge event. Like you've just had a great summer, but the energy has wound down. The warm feeling is still there inside you, but you know that situation is over and it's time to move on to other things. Maybe that is the ritual of life, running from the highs to the lows to the norm. Extremes to the means. It also contains one of my favorite lines from any Yes song: "we receive all we venture to give".

It's not a rushed song and flows at a slow pace. I could do without the drum section in the middle, but the ending is completely beautiful (starting at 16:55).

Tantras: the ritual seven notes of freedom to learn and to know the ritual of life. life is a fight between sources of evil and pure love. Alan and Chris present and relay the struggle out of which comes a positive source. Nous Sommes du Soleil. We are of the sun. We can see.


Lyrics

Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play
Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play

Open doors we find our way, we look we see we smile
Surely daybreaks cross our path and stay maybe a while
Let them run, let them chase, Let them hide between
Constant doors will open eyes as life seems like
Life seems like a fight, fight, fight

Maybe I'll just sing awhile and then give you a call
Maybe I'll just say hello and say maybe that's all
Hurry home as love is true, will help us through the night
Till we're coming home again our life seems like
Life seems like a fight, fight, fight

Catch as we look and use the passions that flow
As we try to continue
We receive all we venture to give

Maybe we'll just stand awhile and surely we can call
Dreams are said to blossom courage, constant to the soul
 Change we must as surely time does, changes call the course
Held inside we enter daybreaks asking for asking for
The source, the source, the source

Sent as we sing our music's total retain
As we try and consider
We receive all we venture to give

All we say is our soul constant sight listener
We won't tender our song clearer, till we sail
Then I will be there
And I will be there
As clearer companions shall call to be near you
They move around tell me that
Move around surely sing
As they don't seem to matter at all, at all at all

Hold me my love, hold me today call me round
Travel we say, wander we choose love tune
Lay upon me, hold me around lasting hours
We love when we play

We hear a sound and alter our returning
We drift the shadows and course our way on home
Flying home - Going home

Look me my love sentences move dancing away
We join we receive
As our song memories long hope in a way
Nous sommes du soleil
Hold, me around, lasting ours
We love when we play
Nous sommes du soleil
Nous sommes du soleil
Nous sommes du soleil