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song list next song Yes/ABWH: Letter B Yes: Talk The Calling
(Rabin/Anderson/Squire)
Feel the calling of a miracle
In the presence of the word
Now we hold the right to rearrange
How the stories can be heard

In the beginning is the future
And the future is at hand
I'll be calling voices of Africa
Be the rhythm to the plan

From the Congo to Lenasia
Be the writing on the wall
I'll be calling the colors of India
See the Asian life explode

CHORUS
Head into the headlight
Don't turn from the rain
There's a fire raging somewhere near
Liek a longtime friend who's
Seen it darker than ebony
Take off on the turnpike
(Asking for the first call)
Give me more of the same
(Asking for a song)
There's a fire burning in my heart again

I'll be calling the dragons of China
See the dancers of the Nile
See the wings of change are on display
This revelation mine

Feel the calling of the miracle
In the presence of the word

CHORUS

Feel the calling of a miracle
The revelation mine
song list next song previous song Yes: The Ladder Can I
(Anderson/Howe/Sherwood/Squire/White/Khoroshev; lyrics: Anderson)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Fragile Cans And Brahms (Extracts From Brahms' 4rt Symphony in E Minor Third Movement)
(Arr. by Wakeman)
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song list next song previous song ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Catherine Parr
(Wakeman)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Yesyears Yes: 90125 Changes
(Rabin/Anderson/White)
I'm moving through some changes
I'll never be the same
Something you did touched me
There's no one else to blame

The love we had has fallen
The love we used to share
We've given up pretending
As if you didn't care

Change changing places
Root yourself to the ground
Capitalize on this good fortune
One word can bring you round
Changes

I look into the mirror
I see no happiness
All the warmth I gave you
Has turned to emptiness
The love we had has fallen
The love we used to share
You've left me here believing
In love that wasn't there

Change changing places
Root yourself to the ground
Word to the wise - Well you get what's coming
One word can bring you round
Changes

When I look into your eyes and try to find out how
There's no way to save it now
And everything I feel
Changes
Keep looking for
Changes
Changes

For some reason you're questioning why
I always believe it gets better
One difference between you and I
Your heart is inside your head

One word from you
One word from me
A clear design on your liberty
Who could believe when love has gone
How we move on like everyone

Only such fools
Only such jealous hearts

Only through love changes come

Change changing places
Root yourself to the ground
Capitalize on this good fortune
One word can bring you round
Changes

One road to loneliness
It's always the same
One road to happiness
It's calling your name

Change changing places - Changes
Root yourself to the ground
Capitalize on this good fortune
One word can bring you round
Changes

Change changing places
Changes
Root yourself to the ground
Word to the wise - Well you get what's coming
One word - One word can bring you round
Changes
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Children Of Light
I. Children Of Light
(Anderson/Vangelis/Squire)
Distant as the distant thunder
Where equal rights for [will] rent assunder
Equal rights for equal people
[This]  Disregard for love's equality

Bringing back the signs to no-man's land
Where diamonds and gold in hand
Will barter as the homeless burn
Someday will it be our turn?

Why this consciousness this desire
To expand the flame of revolution
With a [the]  gothic hand in [of]  fire persecution
Blood-letting and [in] spinning pain?

Why this hungry media delivering
Questions answers blessed forgivers [plus forgive us]
Millions of racial inequalities
We all are one
All are sacred

Be the birth of a nation
Stop this aggravation
So uninspired
And [to] question man's inhumanity
And lack of love for his cosmic god

Children of light  Don't be afraid
Children of light  Haven't you heard
Gone are the days  In black and white
Children of light  Don't be afraid

Distant as the distant thunder
Where equal rights for [will] rent assunder
Equal rights for equal people
[This]  Disregard for love's equality

Bringing back the signs to no-man's land
Where diamonds and gold in hand
Will barter as the homeless burn
Someday will it be our turn?

Someday will it be our turn?
Someday will it be our turn?

Children of light  Don't be afraid
Children of light  Haven't you heard
Gone are the days  In black and white
Children of light  Don't be afraid
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Children Of Light
II. Lifeline
(Wakeman/Howe)
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song list next song previous song Yes: 90125 Cinema
(Squire/Rabin/White/Kaye)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Tormato Circus of Heaven
(Jon Anderson)
The day the Circus of Heaven came to town
Local folks lined the streets in a Midwestern town
Waiting anxiously for the parade to begin all around
On the very last day

A unicorn headed the mystical way
Surrounded by what seemed a thousand golden angels at play
Behind were Centaurs, elves, bright fairies all in colours of jade
On the very final day

For what seemed only just a moment in time
Seven solemn flying silvered regal horses rode by
Seven golden chariots in tow, a wonder to behold
The Seven Lords of the Mountains of Time
There then arose where nothing really stood there before
A giant tent rising one thousand feet high frofrom the floor
Towns people flocked inside with their eyes all amazed
To greet the Seventh Lord of the seventh age
A fanfare rang out in an incredible sound
Bringing out the strangest visions perfect harmony round
Any dreams he asked would they like to have seen
From historical or mythical scenes

Then there above their heads just as vivid as life
Each vision transported multitudes inventing light
Grecian galleons, the sack of Troy, to the Gardens of Babylon
A play of millions roared along
The gigantic dreams of Alexander the Great
Civil wars where fbrothers fought and killed their friendship with hate
All seen by Zeus performing scenes in the magical way
The day the circus came to town

Outside great animals as tame as the trees
Angels high in starlight dancing streets
Turning their colours with indigo and gold
Dropping violet, red and emerald snow
As the circus finally changed its invisible course
A new world to be found

On the dreamy ground we walked upon
I turned to my son and said
"Was that something beautiful, amazing, wonderful, extraordinary
  beautiful?"

"Oh! It was OK!! But there were no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears,
cand-floss, toffee apples, no clowns."
song list next song previous song Yes: 90125 City Of Love
(Rabin/Anderson)
City of love City of love City of love

Once bitten twice shy
No - No regrets at all
Justice - Body smooth take over
Good girls they work the city
Good guys they spike you hard
How they jive ad jingle
When you're in their backyard

Street corner wonder lust
Beckoning the good guy
Take this get that
Have a good time

He young and tactile
He ready for anything that is
How they jive and jingle
They've read the book that gives

We'll be waiting for the night
We'll be waiting for the night to come

We'll be waiting for the night
We'll be waiting for the night to come

Supervise this good treatment
Alternative line by line
So the street guys so observant
Take him for a ride
Have a good time
Like a legend the man he sharp
His woman gladly watching
As he strides out of the dark
Better be quick get away

We'll be waiting for the night
We'll be waiting for the night to come

We'll be waiting for the night
We'll be waiting for the night to come

Solo

Good timing has its good price
One trick and you're stuck with the dice
How they jive and jingle
When you're their sacrifice

Fast as lightning
Go - Go get high - He's looking good
Once bitten twice shy
No woman no cry
No woman don't cry

We'll be waiting for the night
We'll be waiting for the night to come

(repeat three times)
song list next song previous song ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: The Yes Album The Clap
(Howe)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Time And A Word Clear Days
(Anderson)
I once knew a sweet young girl;
Her body was her world of love,
Her laughter was as happiness is.
Of all the times I treasure this.
And on a day we will remember,
On a clear day we will love forever.

I once knew a sweet young dream,
That if life itself were all we had
And who are we to ask for more;
Let's not decide, let's be sure.
And on a day we will remember,
On a clear day we'll all be together,
Together.
song list next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge Close To The Edge
I. The Solid Time Of Change
(Anderson/Howe)
A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour.
And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry single one.
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun,
And take away the plain in which we move,
And choose the course you're running.

Down at the edge, round by the corner,
Not right away, not right away.
Close to the edge, down by a river,
Not right away, not right away.

Crossed the line around the changes of the summer,
Reaching out to call the color of the sky.
Passed around a moment clothed in mornings faster than we see.
Getting over all the time I had to worry,
Leaving all the changes far from far behind.
We relieve the tension only to find out the master's name.

Down at the end, round by the corner.
Close to the edge, just by a river.
Seasons will pass you by.
I get up, I get down.
Now that it's all over and done,
Now that you find, now that you're whole.
song list next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge Close To The Edge
II. Total Mass Retain
(Anderson/Squire)
My eyes convinced, eclipsed with the younger moon attained with love.
It changed as almost strained amidst clear manna from above.
I crucified my hate and held the word within my hand.
There's you, the time, the logic, or the reasons we don't understand.

Sad courage claimed the victims standing still for all to see,
As armoured movers took approached to overlook the sea.
There since the cord, the license, or the reasons we understood will be.

Down at the edge, close by a river.
Close to the edge, round by the corner.
Close to the end, down by the corner.
Down at the edge, round by the river.

Sudden problems shouldn't take away the startled memory.
All in all, the journey takes you all the way.
As apart from any reality that you've ever seen and known.
Guessing problems only to deceive the mention,
Passing paths that climb halfway into the void.
As we cross from side to side, we hear the total mass retain.

Down at the edge, round by the corner.
Close to the end, down by a river.
Seasons will pass you by.
I get up, I get down.
song list next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge Close To The Edge
III. I Get Up, I Get Down
(Anderson/Howe)
In her white lace, you could clearly see the lady sadly looking.
Saying that she'd take the blame
For the crucifixion of her own domain.            I get up,
                                                  I get down,
                                                  I get up,
                                                  I get down.

Two million people barely satisfy.
Two hundred women watch one woman cry, too late.
The eyes of honesty can achieve.
How many millions do we deceive each day?
I get up, I get down.
I get up, I get down.

In charge of who is there in charge of me.
Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?
The truth is written all along the page.
How old will I be before I come of age for you?
I get up, I get down.
I get up, I get down.
I get up, I get down.
song list Yes/ABWH: Letter D previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge Close To The Edge
IV. Seasons Of Man
(Anderson/Howe)
The time between the notes relates the color to the scenes.
A constant vogue of triumphs dislocate man, it seems.
And space between the focus shape ascend knowledge of love.
As song and chance develop time, lost social temp'rance rules above.
Ah, ah.

Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arm to space,
He turned around and pointed, revealing all the human race.
I shook my head and smiled a whisper, knowing all about the place.
On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley,
Called to witness cycles only of the past.
And we reach all this with movements in between the said remark.

Close to the edge, down by the river.
Down at the end, round by the corner.
Seasons will pass you by,
Now that it's all over and done,
Called to the seed, right to the sun.
Now that you find, now that you're whole.
Seasons will pass you by,
I get up, I get down.
I get up, I get down.
I get up, I get down.
I get up.