Today we are listening to Yes’s deeply unpopular 1980 album Drama, the one that broke up the band. One of them at least. I like this record a lot and my kid does too.
Today I noticed that the lead cut seems to have predicted Facebook. Seriously, read this and tell me the parallels aren’t amazing.
Of course when they wrote this I’m sure they had an different sci-fi robot god in mind, more like a 70s anime giant computer/mother/statue probably. Still it even seems to describe the very nature of Facebook,
“Friends make their way into systems of chance
(Reply- friends make their way of escape into systems of chance)
Escape to freedom I need to be there
Waiting and watching, the tables are turning
I'm waiting and watching
I need to be there.”
…and even quitting and fake quitting,
“I care to see them walk away
And, to be there when they say
They will return.”
The internet itself and its affects in climate change,
“Cables that carry the life
To the cities we build
Threads that link diamonds of life
To the satanic mills”
Yes are well known for inventing a lot of stuff musically but not outright prognostication.