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song list next song Yes: Yesyears Abilene
(Howe)
Something*s goin on
I don*t know what it is
But my phone just rang and I didn*t get no call
No call.
Just waiting here

Abilene, it's got a lot of what you don*t need
It*s got lots of space
Still nothing seems misplaced
You*ve got a face
You are spacey

You got to take it as it comes to you
Don*t need no act of contemplation
Just keep it off your wasteful way for now (?)
It*s not you who has got to change
It*s not your way at all
It*s got to be you

It*s got to be you
The look in your eyes,
the feel of your body close to me
It*s got to be you
Who tells me the world spin away without love

You...
Reason, oh, reason for being once more together
It*s got to be you.


It*s got to be you
The look in your eyes,
the feel of your body close to me
It*s got to be you
Who tells me the world spin away without love

You...
Reason, oh, reason for being once more together
It*s got to be you.
It*s got to be you.
It*s got to be you.
It*s got to be you.
song list next song previous song Yes: Big Generator Almost Like Love
(Kaye/Rabin/Anderson/Squire)
Who was it organizing the right
To follow my leader
Seems we look and stand around waiting
For a sign from God
Speaking for myself
The christian need
The muslim need
The buddhist need
To testify the need for brotherly love

I know there's so many hundred things
Things to talk about
Making us laugh
Just like a shakespeare revolution
Please organize our spiritual evolution
Do that you'll feel it
And we'll feel it
Appreciate it's almost like love
It's almost like love
It's almost like love
It's almost like love

Saint or sinner
Makes no difference in who you believe
In a world of superstition
Caught in a total nuclear greed

Pioneers of the twenty first century
Looking on and looking fast
To try and fix and try and help
This very need
I know there's so many ways
That we can work it out
Whether we live or die

Please organize the simple evolution
so there's got to be
so we can see
to be free
It's almost like love
It's almost like love
It's almost like love

So promised in a hundred letters
Should be getting to you any time now
So promised a surprise for you
For getting so far from now
It's almost like love
The way the first one out discovers
It's almost like
How many times can you recover
It's almost

It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like
It's almost like love
song list next song previous song Yes: Yesyears Yes: 9012Live - The Solos Amazing Grace
(Traditional; Arr: Squire)
   --- instrumental ---
song list next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Yes: Keys To Ascension Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yesterdays America
(Paul Simon)
Let us be lovers
We'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag

So we bought a pack of cigarettes
And Mrs. Wagner's Pies
And walked on, walked on, walked on
To look for America

'Kathy,' I said as we boarded a Greyhound to Pittsburg,
'Michigan seems like a dream to me now'
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America

Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the Gabardine suit was a spy
I said, 'Be carefull his bow tie is really a camera.'

Kathy I'm lost I said
Although I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and I'm aching
And I don't know why

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America
song list next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Steve Howe: Not Necessarily Acoustic Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans 'The Ancient' - Giants Under The Sun
(words by Anderson/Howe, music by Yes)

PURANAS:
The Ancient probes still further into the past beyound the point of remembering. Here Steve's guitar is pivotal in sharpening reflection on the beauties and treasures of lots civilisations, Indian, Chinese, Central American, Atlantean. These and other people left an immense treasure of knowledge.
As one with the knowledge and magic of the source
Atuned to the majesty of music
They marched as one with earth

Sol, Dhoop
Sun
Ilios
Naytheet
Ah Kin
Saule
Tanatiuh
Qurax
Gunes, Grian
Surie
Ir
Samse

So the flowering creativity of life wove its
Web face to face with the shallow
And their gods soought out and conquered: Ah Kin

Do the leaves of green stay greener through the autumn
Does the colour of the sun turn crimson white
Does a a shadow come between us in the winter
Is the movement really light

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
 Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
                        Along without you
                        Along without you

Where does reason stop and killing just take over
Does a lamb cry out before we shoot it dead
Are there many more in comfort understanding
Is the movement in the head

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
                        Along without you
                        Along without you
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Jon Anderson: The Best Of South America Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge And You And I
I. Cord Of Life
(Anderson/Bruford/Howe/Squire)
A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream,
Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes.
As a foundation left to create the spiral aim,
A movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed.
Between the picture of time behind the face of need,
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Oh.

Turn round tailor,                                      Coins and
Assaulting all the mornings of the                        Crosses
Interest shown,                                        Never know
Presenting one another to the cord,        Their fruitless worth;
All left dying, rediscovered                    Cords are broken,
Of the door that turned round,                      Locked inside
To close the cover,                             the mother earth.
All the interest shown,                                They won't
To turn one another, to the sign           Hide, hold, they won't
At the time                         Tell you, watching the world,
                                       Watching all of the world,
                                               Watching us go by.

And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Jon Anderson: The Best Of South America Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge And You And I
II. Eclipse
(Anderson/Bruford/Squire)
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the side of seeds of life with you.
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Jon Anderson: The Best Of South America Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge And You And I
III. The Preacher the Teacher
(Anderson/Bruford/Howe/Squire)
Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.
Ooh, ooh.

I listened hard but could not see
Life tempo change out and inside me.
The preacher trained in all to lose his name;
The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same.
In the end, we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalise
That the truth of the man maturing in his eyes,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
As a moment regained and regarded both the same,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you.
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Jon Anderson: The Best Of South America Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge And You And I
IV. Apocalypse
(Anderson/Bruford/Howe/Squire)
And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning.
And you and I reach over the sun for the river.
And you and I climb, clearer, towards the movement.
And you and I called over valleys of endless seas.
song list next song previous song Yes: Union Angkor Wat
(Anderson/Wakeman/Elias)
Out of the brightest tree the moon became the morning sun,
And there again reflected on the dreams of everyone.
Out of the starlight night the telling of all our lives,
And racing faster than the Northwestern World.

Starpoint to signal our endlessness
Starpoint to signal this evermore
Starpoint to compass: We look to the North
To return to the centre: Angkor Wat.

(Cambodian Poetry)
translation of the Cambodian poetry
I am a child of the universe.

I deserve total recognition of this in the light of God.

Being a child of the universe,
    I want to live in a world without war
    I want to live in a world without starvation
    I want to live in a world without pestilence
    I want to live in a world of love, peace and harmony

Because I am a child of the universe.
song list next song previous song Yes: Tormato Arriving UFO
(Jon Anderson/Steve Howe/Rick Wakeman)
I could not take it oh so seriously really
When you called and said you'd seen a UFO
But then it dawned on me the message in writing
Spelt out a meeting never dreamed of before

I looked out, in the night
Strange and startling
Was this voice of time just saying
There's got to be a linking of everyone
Got to be a centre
It all comes flooding back

Arriving thru eons of times immortal power of the future to behold
Vessels of a different impression, none that we could ever hope to have
  known

So look out, in the night
Once they arrive
On that perennial light
Impress a bolder empire of energy
In the ships we see
The coming of outer space

You say there's no reason to conjure
With the force as it has been known to be see
You say I'm a fool, a believer
Put your feet on the earth it is green

But look out, in the night
Wait for they arrive
To start such sciences anew
Here it is the coming of outer space
Such a pure delight
The coming of outer space
song list next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Rick Wakeman: Live at Hammersmith Rick Wakeman: Myths and Legends of King Arthur... Arthur
(Rick Wakeman)
Upon a New Year's day
A host of knights did pray
That from the anvil one could draw the sword.

As each knight took his turn
They found the anvil, held it firm;
None worthy of a future King and Lord.

Sir Kay the bravest knight
Appeared to try his might
He dreamed of being King, as all the rest
To Arthur Sir Kay called to search
And bring for him a sword
In earnest Arthur set about his quest.

A churchyard in the wood
The sword and anvil stood
And Arthur drew the sword out of the stone
The anvil now defeated
His quest for the sword completed
A sword that was to place him on the throne
A sword that was to place him on the throne.

Sir Hector and Sir Kay saw the sword
And knelt to pray
Then gently took it from young Arthur's hand
They marvelled at his quest
Proclaiming to the rest
Arthur is the King of all this land
Arthur the King of all this land.
song list next song previous song Yes: Something's Coming Yes: Yesterdays Yes: Time And A Word Astral Traveller
(Anderson)
And in the ruins
Caught in the noose around me,
Glasses tell lies.
Wondering when
To do it again of another
Flying to the sky,
Somewhere flying high.
Astral trav'ller,
Leaving without her,
Wond'ring where lives go;
In and out the valley below.

Once in the air,
We could expect a great respect in being.
(Astral trav'ller.)
Memories fly
Over the sky, and oh, the
Sight's worth seeing,
Just believin'.
Astral trav'ller,
Leaving without her,
Wond'ring where lives go;
In and out the valley below.
song list Yes/ABWH: Letter B previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension Yes: Yesyears Yes: Going For The One Awaken
(Anderson/Howe)
High vibration go on
to the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
past a mortal as me.
Where can I be?

Wish the sun to stand still.
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past a mortal as we
Here we can be
We can be here,
be here now.
Here we can be.

AWAKEN     SUNS HIGH STREAM THRU      AWAKEN
GENTLE     STRONG DREAMS BEGIN HERE   AWAKEN
MASS       .)(.                       MASS
TOUCH      STAR,SONG,AGE,LESS         TOUCHING

Workings of man
set to ply out historical life.
Reregaining the flower of the fruit of his tree.
All awakening, all restoring you.

Workings of man, crying out from the fires set aflame.
By his blindness to see that the warmth of his being
is promised for his seeing, his reaching so clearly.

Workings of man
driven far from the path.
Rereleased in inhibitions
So that all is left for you
        all is left for you
        all is left for you
        all this left for you now.

Master of things.          Master of light.
Songs cast alight on you.              All pure chance.
Hark thru dark ties.                   As exists cross divided.
That tunnel us out of sane existence.  In all encircling mode.
In challenge as direct.                Oh closely guided plan.
As eyes see young stars assemble.      Awaken in our heart.

Master of soul.                        Master of time.
Set to touch.            Setting sail.
All impenetrable youth.          Over all of our lands.
Ask away.            And as we look.
That thought be contact.         Forever closer.
With all thats clear.          Shall we now bid.
Be honest with yourself.         Farewell, farewell.
Theres no doubt, no doubt.

High vibration go on
to the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
past a mortal as me.
Where can I be?

Wish the sun to stand still.
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past a mortal as we
Here we can be
We can be here.

Like the time I ran away
and turned around
and you were standing close to me.

Like the time I ran away
and turned around
and you were standing close to me.