This song was released alongside the PC strategy game Homeworld. It plays in the game’s closing credits and the lyrics describe the player’s journey.
Homeworld features two playable races, the Kushan and the Taiidan. Which ever race the player chooses, they will take the role of an exiled people se...
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
[Verse 2]
Nothing can bridge our souls' devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
Yeah-eah
[Verse 3]
So many displaced among the future dreamers realized
Their doubles took a new step
A question of origin
[Verse 4]
Only in the recent past
Seekers fought to realize
Skyward shone like beacons
A question of origin
[Verse 5]
Ten thousand millions flee
To the westward light
The dreamers represent
This arc of peace (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ahhh-ahhh)
[Verse 6]
As the poets entranced
The anchor redeemed
Secrets of science
The history of the future
Was surely made (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ahhh-ahhh)
[Chorus]
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world
[Verse 1]
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
[Verse 2]
Nothing can bridge our souls devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
Yeah!
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 7]
Speak so fast to the prophets of the living
Looking for the signs
Spanning out the centuries
Search for truth (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ahhh-ahhh)
[Verse 8]
Ancient ones, they watch and listen
Carry our wishes
Took upon themselves to guide us
Through the endless skies (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ahhh-ahhh)
[Chorus]
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our hope is our world, our life
Our hope is our world, our life
Ahhhh-ahhhh
[Bridge Verse 1]
I have seen the passion
That's in the hope that everyone
Will find their way into the secret
Of the home of your heart
[Bridge Verse 2]
Living within the vision
Within the power, beyond belief
We see that hate destroys the soul
Of anyone who tries to teach it
Faa!
Faa!
Faa!
[Bridge Verse 3]
I have seen the dream (I have seen the dream in your heart)
That's in your heart
That's in your eyes
To bring you closer to the one (Closer to the)
[Chorus]
It's what keeps us so alive
It's what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life (Homeworld)
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life (Homeworld)
Home is our world, our life
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 9]
Send, ascending to the secrets
All is pure and clear to resolve
Nothing can change us now
Send, ascending to the future
Nothing can ever change us now
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
Truth is a simple place
Here for us all to see
Reach as it comes to you
As it comes to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Peace is a word we teach
A place for us all to reach
Sing as it sings to you
As it sings to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Homeworld (The Ladder) was written by Igor Khoroshev & Alan White & Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood & Steve Howe & Jon Anderson.
Homeworld (The Ladder) was produced by Bruce Fairbairn.
Yes released Homeworld (The Ladder) on Mon Sep 20 1999.