Interesting one of the lines Anderson sings at the very beginning of Revealing Science of God....
Revealing corridors of time provoking memories,
disjointed but with purpose...
I agree. Close is almost totally seemless. And there are parts that are almost love ballad type material, so it's not so religion/spiritual/mystic based.
Anderson has said that CTTE was based on Hesse's "Siddhartha". I need to read it some day so I'll know just what he's talking about. But the words are still beautiful-I listen to "Yes" primarily for the music as a whole.Anderson could've used gibberish lyrics-some say he did,LOL-but he's said that sometimes he used words as musical notes,for what sounded good and fit the music,not to convey ideas.