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song list next song Jon Anderson: Letter R Jon Anderson: The More You Know Sad
(Anderson/Jocky)
And who are they to know, as they are to achieve it
And who are they to change, when they don't even know it
An older sign of life upon their heads
And all because they came around and touched you
  like you thought you had
Blew it out into the sky and someone else could even die
As always in their eyes they would be true
And fly right up to you and say that they would always trust in you
Now every night it comes

An older sign of life upon their heads
So when they came around and talked about the way
  they treat their children
When they talked about their death and said that
  they would sometimes hold out
When they crawled out between the boards alive and
  tried to stretch for air to survive
How were they supposed to be alive at all
So every night it comes

And who are they to know, as they are to achieve it
And who are they to change, when they don't even know it
An older sign of life upon their heads
How many souls have cried for years
Thank God the angels make them see
And take their souls to liberty
Arise above the way that humans treat their children so, so low
Pushing all the love away
Showing them is this way to live

How are they supposed to be alive
(these are all the children)
Without love how are they supposed to be
(these are all the visions)
without love (these are all the children)

It's here in the horrible world
In forces of the time
In the garden of hate
And the forces that lie
It cuts into the vine
SOmeone gets to bring a change
You can help it in your mind
These are all your children
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: 3 Ships Save All Your Love
(Anderson)
Save all your love
To be a better child
To be a better child

This one ach of good
Blessed forever
Blessed forever

Midnight singers, midnight high
Sister mercy is in my hour
Midnight lyrics, midnight song
Bringing all that's pure to light
Bringing all that's pure to life

Byt the grace of God
A child has born
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: 3 Ships Save All Your Love (Reprise)
(Anderson)
Save all your love
To be a better child
To be a better child

This one gift of love
Come on a good day
Come on a good day
song list next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Jon Anderson: The More You Know Say
(Anderson/Jocky)
You know what they say when they say - you got it coming to you
(Only in a matter of time will it come to you)
And then you're faced with the choice - I guess to give your love
(It's only when you're ready to do it)
It's just a point of the game - you've gotta push it to you
(Opening the spirit in your heart)

And now you're finally convinced - it will work for you
I guess that's what they try to say to you
(Na si ma wU, Na si mEndE pE tU milla munE mundi)
To you, to you, to you
(Na si ma wU, Na si mEndE pE tU milla munE mundi)
And you, and you, and you
(Na si ma wU, Na si mEndE pE tU milla munE mundi)
To you, to you, to you

They say it's better to be blind - to see what really happens
(I don't believe that for one minute)
I'm just a cog in the wheel - I twist and then I turn
(Anyway is better than no way at all)
Please tell me where are you now - an independent feeling
(You imagine what you want to be)
You've grown so tall in your world - begin to see the light
I guess that's what they try to say to you
To you, to you, to you

I can rely on your love - to help me through tomorrow
(Only if you want to be alive)
Alive and clear as it can be - I want you on my side
(Only if you promise to be true)
I do reach out for the time - to make it all better
(Better than forever really to be yeah)
So now the game is coming clear - clearer into view

I guess that's what they try to say to you
To you, to you, to you
(Na si ma wU, Na si mEndE pE tU milla munE mundi)
And you, and you, and you
(Na si ma wU, Na si mEndE pE tU milla munE mundi)
To you, to you, to you
(Na si ma wU, Na si mEndE pE tU milla munE mundi)

Olo lo le le le Ole lo la la la
Bona bato nbana binyU ya sEnga lambo
Ekola kola mimbu, di mana nU yEn wendji
BalanE bisU wonE ba tmibanE bisU wanE
TU ndjika pasa wasE pE ba malanE nU bisU
TU ndjika pata loko pE ba malanE nU bisU

Ka bunya bo ma busa nU, ka WeO I ma dipa nU
Ka benon be ma IUngUm ka ngila I ma kUmU nU
NdE bato ba ma tUpU nU, ndE longuE mU di mala nU
Na nbu pE mi ma tomba nU, ndE longuE mU di mala nU
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: EarthMotherEarth Scraggle Cat And Puss Cat Willum
(Jon Anderson)
Here Kitty...
Scraggle Cat and Puss Cat Willum
Don't know what it takes to fill'um up
They like cheese 'n they like chicken
They like fish... they think that Janiee is a dish.
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Deseo Seasons
(Jon Anderson)
(translated and transcribed by Ramiro Bonilla)
Veo en tu andar ese dejo de Abril.
D’as de oto–o, paseos sin fin,
rumbo al invierno que viene a lucir
um bre la la (FONETIC)
siguen tus pasos, Mayo a seguir.

Nace en tu vientre un reflejo del sol.
Vistiendo el roc’o amanezco en pasi—n.
Primavera, ese anhelo de Dios.
um bre la la
El viento en celo viene a decir.

Into this summer................
Love is the answer to all we survey,
touching the human to lose sense of time
um bre la la
Forget the reason, remember the rhyme.

Cuando te veo encuentro el sabor,
pienso en el sol de una quinta estaci—n.
Naturaleza y su ciclo pas—.
um bre la la
Viviendo el tiempo vuelvo a empezar.

Last but not least I will stand by your side.
Into each season our life will revive.
Forgetting the sorrows.......... the past
um bre la la
Into the future
um bre la la

Here is the sun
Without the sun there is no life.
There is no life without the sun.
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes Yes: Highlights - The Very Best Of Yes Jon Anderson: The Best Of South America Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: The Yes Album Seen All Good People
(Jon Anderson/Chris Squire)

I. Your Move
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
        so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
        so satisfied I'm on my way.

Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life.
Make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time to make you a wife.

'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Move me on to any black square,
Use me any time you want,
Just remember that the gold (or goal)
Is for us to capture all we want, anywhere,
Yea, yea, yea.

Don't surround yourself with yourself,
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant karma to me,
Initial it with loving care
   Don't surround
Yourself.

'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit                 Don't surround
Didda.                                                  Yourself with yourself.
Don't surround yourself with yourself,                 Don't surround yourself.
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant karma to me,                                  Send an instant
Initial it with loving care             Karma to me. Don't surround Yourself.

'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.

'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured.
II. All Good People
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
Yea, yea.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Toltec Jon Anderson: The Power Of Silence Semati Siyonpme (Beautiful Star)
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song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: The Power Of Silence Sixteen Sixteen
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song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Change We Must Shaker Loops
(John Adams/Jon Anderson)
Look in to the windward
Chance would be there
Circle the skies
Circles in the corn
Circles in the spiral of our eyes

Where will we be
Where in heaven is love?

Look into the first light
Caught in the moon
Singing with the changes
Dancing then making us sigh

Who the first to see them
Patterns of the memory?
Asking us to wonder
Asking us to listen
Where are we now?

The earth is new
The world is clear
The earth is ready
Making us hear
The world is new
the Earth is clear
The earth is ready
Making us hear

Can you believe the music
Can you believe the passion
Can you believe the healing
Bringing us the messages?

Positive the reason
We see the circles
Part of our memory
Part understanding

Messages of other worlds
Coming through in mysteries

See in the world
It is the word
It is the world

Light the mist
Light the kiss
Light the fire
Light the sun
Light the mist
Light the kiss
Light the fire
Light the soul

Like a message has come to the earth
Be the earthfield and see the circles
Hear the patterns they're singing to you
Hear the patterns they're bringing to you

Like a message has come to the earth
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Toltec Jon Anderson: The Power Of Silence Shall We Play The Game
(Jon Anderson)
   --- instrumental ---
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Olias Of Sunhillow Solid Space
(Jon Anderson)
Hold my life
cross the path
course and curl my dreams away

Fast the soul
make the break
as even as the stars that form the way

                              Rider

                                   Turn a mountain send them lost
                                   among the flowers of the young

                                   Turn a mountain send them lost
                                   among the flowers of the young


                      Rider    Rider   Rider

Hold my life
cross the path
course and curl my dreams away

Fast the soul
make the break
as even as the stars that form the way

              Rider   Rider   Rider   Rider   Rider

                            .   .   .
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Song Of Seven Some Are Born
(Anderson)
Towa taya taka tai
Towa taya taka tai
Towa taya tak
Taya tak
Towa taya taka tai

Towa taya taka tai
Towa taya taka tai
Towa taya tak
Taya tak
Towa taya taka tai

Some are born to run
Some are born to fly
It's the essence of the love inbuilt in everyman

Some are born for fun
Some are born for lies
Do not regret a moment living out your life

Some are born to love
Some are born to hide
Through the echoes of the feelings drawn in everyman

Some are born to lose
Some are born to try
For trying harder seems the only way to go

Some are born to run
Some are born to fly
Through the echoes of the feelings drawn in everyman

Some are born to lose
Some are born to try
Trying harder seems the only way to go
Trying harder seems the only way to go

hee we meet, I feel it in the morning light
Getting it together, does it feel right
Ohhh-

Let us be together in the morning light
Let us be together in the dawning light
Ohhh-
Let it through
Let it through

Some are born to run
Some are born to fly
It's the essence of the love inbuilt in everyman

Some are born for fun
Some are born for lies
Do not regret a moment living out your life

Some are born to run
Some are born to fly
Through the echoes of the feelings drawn in everyman

Some are born to run
Some are born to fly
Then we spend some time just hanging around
Them we spend some time just hanging around

Towa taya taka tai
Towa taya taka tai
Towa taya tak taya tak
Towa taya taka tai
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: The More You Know Some TV
(Anderson/Jocky)
Something in the dark is staring much to bad beginnings
Gangs of hungry kids are out stealing all the winnings
Strip the tourists on the floor, he is left with nothing
All he's got is life, his soul and bad dreams ever more

Someone in the dark is fixing dynamite, destroying
Put it in the main street where the shops are full of bodies
Agents have protection, cold religious killing
Market their releases though they're sent from heaven's door

Now we're not blind, now we can see
The truth is out, on your TV, on your TV

See it every day we focus CNN for dinner
Not so many killings everybody is a winner
Down in the dark the main street for the power and the glory
Must be something on the news to set our hearts on fire

We're not blind, yes we can see
The news is bad, the big TV

One thing hits me more and more, I know you're gonna get it
Good news doesn't sell at all, no point in trying to tell it
More and more you realise good news is not important
Look around there's so much more, my TV is distorted

Don't be so blind, yes you can see
Distorted minds, on our TV

One thing hits me more and more, I know you're gonna get it
Good news doesn't settle all, no point in trying to tell it
More and more you realise good news is not important
Look around there's so much more, my TV is distorted

Don't be so blind, yes you can see
There is good news, on your TV

So this morning I went to turn on my tape
on my Magnavox colour TV
It turned around and said "good morning Jon
how are you today, today"
Are you ready for some football?
Are you ready for The Price Is Right?
Are you ready for some football?
I thought, I'm ready for some football

I love my TV. It's speaking to me
I love my TV
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Toltec Jon Anderson: The Power Of Silence Song Of Home
(Jon Anderson)

(phoenetic)
La
Say oh day go toe ma
Say oh see go joe ah
Do what you wandaree
Do what you mandaree
Shalom

La
Tay oh day go joe ma
Tay oh see go joe wa
Do what you wandaree
Do what you wandaree
Shalom

Crue
Do ah ka baby who
Who
He ah oh he ah
Aha daddy song

Trow
Say oh day go joe ma
Tay oh see go joe ah
Do what you wandaree
Do what you mandaree
Shalom
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Olias Of Sunhillow Song Of Search
(Jon Anderson)
   --- instrumental ---
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Song Of Seven Song Of Seven
(Anderson)
In the meeting place I sit beside, betwixt the points of heaven
I befell a friendly atmosphere revolving around seven
Oh, that number mystified my soul and captured within feelings
Those of doubt and understanding, hand in hand they set me reeling

Met me a stranger, he came here to town
Bearing gifts full of promises, discoveries of light
Said me many reasons why my merry tale
Could be justified and just both together entwined
I tell you a reason, he said, "Bless you, you fool, you fool"
You want "so belief," yet you want so much
More," you seeker
Now I see you're baffled, yet again you administer fear
Of the unexpected, you don't know the score
Everywhere you look you release parts of your senses
And everywhere there's purpose in answer to all your dreams
I can hear you saying what a dreamer, what a fool to life
Isn't it a pity that he won't come back to earth

Haven't you imagination, and is it not available
How you can be sooner or later than your thinking
Haven't you imagination and is it so impossible
That you ask of everything so your eyes can see clearly

So in an instant your story bound
A desert, the underground, on mountains high
A glacier, the heat of the day

City jungle, the sky at night
In space on a starry night
An atmosphere impossible
So you never really care

So we talk about the strength of dreams
And we talked at length of every dream
And we talked about the strength of dreams
And we talked about the strength of dreaming

I befell a friendly atmosphere revolving around seven
Oh, that number mystified my soul and captured within feelings
Those of doubt and understanding, hand to hand they set me reeling

In the seventh dream to stand alone
But not without the strength of love
To guide our way, everyday

Oh, the seventh dream, your smile can bring
Love on and on and time will
Flow forever clear
The seventh dream standing so near
And very soon
We'll walk with love
Love that I can sing to you
You
You

Is it this time of day that makes me realise
The sun is coming out to shine again
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Is it this time of day that gives you hope

Is it this time of times that comes between the light
Are there so many dreamers in this life between a moment's time
And the stairways of love
The starlight
The starlight

Telling me that there's something to
Cling on to
Cling on to
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Toltec Jon Anderson: The Power Of Silence Sound And Color
(Jon Anderson)
The spirit moves as I spiral inwardly
I have read about it
Don't ask me questions
How do I turn around on the spot?

Sound can acknowledge and reveal
The very nature of the body line
Color coexists as a meter to the soul

Sound can acknowledge and reveal
The very nature of the body line
Color coexists as a meter to the soul

So you don't need an excuse to be happy
Just forgive and forget

So you don't need an excuse to be happy
Just forgive and forget

They say the mystics they live in the clouds
And they prob'ly love it

They say the mystics they live in the clouds
And they prob'ly love it
Yes they prob'ly love it
Yes they prob'ly love it
song list next song previous song Yes: Yes Solo Family Album Jon Anderson: Olias Of Sunhillow Sound Out The Galleon
(Jon Anderson)
Sound out the galleon to travel to cross
close the space between pastures
as rightly attained.
As old stands to plunder
expectant as one dear companion can utter
the right we achieve.

Climb summer mornings and tell me of days past
did we all to sing of the praises of love
And is one hand raised high in the dark.

Total relating appointed close factors
of what we regard as the answer lies there,
and is one hand raised high in the dark.

                    There stands Olias to outward to build a ship
                            Holding within all we hope to retain.
             The frame will be so built to challenge the universe
                 clasped with the skins of the fish of the plain.

Mastered volcano erupt with the pleasure
and sing to the power, we will sail to the East,
and all hands shall rise to the call

                   DO GA RIYTAN SHA TOO RAYTAN

                         GAN MATTA SHA PA
                      MUTTO   MATTO   MUTTO

                      RADAN ATTO RADDAN ATTO
                    STOU TO MUTTO SHA GO TEKA
                           SHA GO TEKA
                              D E I

Sighting our vision Ranyart will precision us
from all our points to our destined recall
and shall all but rejoice to it all.

         There stands Qoquaq and shall point to the four corners,
                          reaching out faster shall overtake you.
                            To bring you to safety to travel away
           from this moment that's rightly attained as your view.

                      So sound out the galleon to travel to cross
                                 close the space between pastures
                                             as rightly attained.
                                        As old stands to plunder
                        expectant as one dear companion can offer
                                            the right we achieve.
song list next song previous song Vangelis: Portraits Jon Anderson: Change We Must Jon Anderson: The Best Of South America The Best Of Jon & Vangelis Jon & Vangelis: The Friends Of Mr. Cairo State Of Independence
(Jon Anderson/Vangelis)
State of life, may I live, may I love
Coming out of the sky I name me a name
Coming up silver word for what it is
It is the very nature of the sound of the game

Siamese, Indonese to Tibet
Treat the life as a game if you please
Coming up Caribbean sense of freedom
Derives from a mediative state

Moving on, believe that's it
Call it magic Third World
It is, I only guessed it
Shah blam ee dee
Shah blam ee dah

Shot to the soul
The flame of Aura'ladin
The essence of the word
The state of independence

Sound like a signal from you
Bring me to meet your sound
And I will bring you to my heart

Love like a signal you call
Touching my body, my soul
Bring to me, you to meet me here
Home be the temple of your heart
Home be the body of your love
Just like holy water to my lips

Yes, I do know how I survive
Yes, I do know why I'm alive
To love and be with you
Day by day by day by day

Say yea yea yea yo
Yea yea yea yo
Be the sound of higher than today

Time again it is said we will hear
We will see it all in this wisdom here
This truth will abound the land
The state of independence shall be
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: In The City Of Angels Sundancing (For The Hopi/Navajo Energy)
(Anderson)
I, he said, release, hold it there
Cannot hold it down at all anymore
I begot a singer of song
How it looked to find this destiny there

I, he said, release to the laws
As he set to find the answer to give
How he chased so far for the laws
They would change his whole perception to live

See the sun can dance to the sky

So he walked to path a mountain to climb
With a song  he walked right up to the sky
There, amazed, he saw as clear as the day
Getting into tune, we shout at the system

How we play, this man-made dream of the fear
Howe play, this man-made dream of desire
Howe we dance awake this song of the earth
Come along

The four new laws will enter the world
Add a new dimension changing it all

One new law, we travel so fast
Number two will be the salt of the earth

Number three will be our guide to the stars
Number four will be the witness to love
As the four new laws will enter the world
As the four new laws will enter the world

Come alive, the singers out of the sun
Come alive, the dancers out of the moon
Come alive, the passion all to the great
We can dance the Sundance all of the way

Can you dance the dream awake in your life

As he said, release, can't hold any longer

Only wanted too
Ever wanted too
Getting ready too
Always wanted too

As it ever is
As it ever will
As it ever can
As it ever is

Get, get, get, get, get, get what you need

See the four new laws will enter the world
See the four new laws will enter the world

See the four new laws will enter the world
See the four new laws will enter the world
song list Jon Anderson: Letter T previous song Jon Anderson: Animation Surrender
(Jon Anderson)
What a way to Surrender -- Surrender
What a way to Surrender -- Surrender

It was a mid-summer night dream long ago
I kinda got me a mood
About me, hit me,
Something was trying to tell me something

I know it sounds pretty crazy really
When you think about it, but I,
Heard voices calling me saying
Have you heard the good news personified

You realise what we're talking about
About the power of love
Why don't the United Nations
Declare a special night celebration

We're gonna send the weapons up on a starry night
Explode them above the atmosphere, it sounds right
The whole damn world will be watching
The magic mushrooms in the bright sky
Such a night of splendour
What a way to surrender

What a way to surrender

See me off down to grab the colonels and the generals
To write a letter to the heads of the Government -- Government
Asking them to name, the day-ay-aya
If you think anything of anyone
Why don't sit right down and write that letter
Getting rid of that fear the sooner the better
How about this for a mid-summer night dream
A night we all will remember
All will remember

We're gonna send the weapons up on a starry night
Explode them above the atmosphere,
It sure sounds right (believe me)
The whole damn world will be watching
The whole damn world will be cheering
Such a night of splendour
What a way to surrender
What a way to surrender
What a way to surrender
What a way to surrender