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Friends And Relatives
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next song Yes: Friends And Relatives (1st disc) Yes: Friends And Relatives Wakeman with Wakeman: No Expense Spared No Expense Spared
(Rick Wakeman/Adam Wakeman)
You say you won''t believe me
When I tell you that I'm scared
And the way you walk you walk towards me.
Only shows that you once cared
Now there's no, no expense spared
No expense spared (2x)
No expense, no, no

No, no, no
Everybody knows,
Everybody's singing in the one  man show of life
My life, some life
Some life (5x)
Life (3x)

Cheap, so cheap, a bargain,
Buy it at the shop, at the store with a cheque or card
Tell me now, what should I be doing here ?
No expense is spared
So any little deal will do, I give it no regard.
Hanging around, that's all I seem to do when you're around
Buy, buy, buy our product
Well below the recommended price, it's not so hard
Absolutely stunning
That'll do nicely, slap it on the card today
Oh I can't see, what you want from me,
No expense is spared
I haven't any money so American Express will pay.
No commitment, no financial guarantee

I should own the bank, then
Take it all away to play the town
The price is down
And there's no expense spared for me.
next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Jon Anderson: The More You Know Say
(Jon Anderson/Francis 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
next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Steve Howe: Quantum Guitar Walk Don't Run
(Steve Howe)
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next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Esquire: Coming Home Tron Thomi
(Squire/McLaren)
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next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives 10 Million
(Jon Anderson)
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next song previous song Excerpts from Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes: Friends And Relatives Steve Howe: Not Necessarily Acoustic Yes: Keys To Ascension Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans
  • The Revealing Science Of God - Dance Of The Dawn
    Yes: Friends And Relatives Steve Howe: Not Necessarily Acoustic Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans
  • The Remembering - High The Memory
    Yes: Friends And Relatives Steve Howe: Not Necessarily Acoustic Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans
  • The Ancient - Giants Under The Sun
    Yes: Friends And Relatives Steve Howe: Not Necessarily Acoustic Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yesshows Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans
  • Ritual
    (Anderson/Howe/Squire/Wakeman/White)
    (this version of 'Tales...' is much shorter than the original)
    Dawn of light lying between a silence and solid sources,
    Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
    Won't to follow, only tunes of a different age, as the links span
    Our endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.
    
    Ours the story shall we carry on
    And search the forest of the sun
    We dream as we dream! Dream as one
    
    In the days of summers so long
    We danced as evenings sang their song
    We wander out the days so long
    
    Whispers of clay
    Alternate ways
    
    Do the leaves of green stay greener in the autumn
    Does the colour of the sun turn crimson white
    Does 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 on 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
    
    Hold me my love, hold me today, call me round
    Travel we say, wander we choose, love tune
    Lay upon me, hold me around lasting hours
    We love when we play
    We hear a sound and alter our returning
    Drift the shadows, course our way back home
    
    Look me my love sentences move dancing away
    We join we receive
    As our song memories long hope in a way
    Nous sommes du soleil
    Hold me around lasting hours
    We love when we play
    Nous sommes du soleil
    We love when we play
    Nous sommes du soleil
    
    next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Jon Anderson: The More You Know The More You Know
    (Jon Anderson/Francis Jocky)
    How do you get even with your sacred senses
    Ebery time, your Brother don't mind
    I don't know we've been running through your friendship
    Try to, deep in time
    Your Brother don't know
    
    First to touch, when you lose
    Finally time again
    Talk, talk, talk will spill the cup
    Then break you down and then
    Put your thoughts to action
    And the consequence is mine
    You don't know
    You don't know
    You're making time
    
    So who's to blame, don't ever doubt it
    Your Brother don't know
    I said who's to blame
    Don't ever doubt it
    Your Brother don't know
    
    Last time you tried to ride it
    Check yourself and realise
    Your ability, your ability, your ability
    And the more you try to push that limit
    How you justify you might not get it
    So you're backing out, a sign of your disability
    
    Eh! I don't mind and they don't care
    But your Brother does
    I said I don't mind and they don't care
    But your Brother does
    
    Who to believe, Who to believe in
    Who to believe, Who to believe in
    
    Acts of faith set you apart
    And it's alright 'cos your Brother don't know
    
    Escape gets you going
    So you finally try again
    But the down and out they call the police
    So they push you back again
    And then you get to get it screaming
    And the lessons you seem to never learn
    It's all about being human
    I believe it is your turn
    
    Say my Brother is my Brother (Brother)
    My Brother is my soul
    I said my Brother is my Brother (Brother)
    Yes Brother is my soul
    Say my Brother
    
    next song previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Rick Wakeman: Live at Hammersmith Rick Wakeman: Journey to the Centre of the Earth Journey
    (Rick Wakeman)
    By horse, by rail, by land, by sea, our journey starts
    Two men incensed by one man's journey from the past
    In Iceland, where the mountain stood with pride
    They set off with their guide
    To reach the mountain side
    
    Roped as one for safety through the long descent
    Into the crater of volcanic rock they went
    Look up from our telescopic lair,
    One star for us to share,
    We continue on our prayer.
    
    Crystals of opaque quartz, studded limpid tears,
    Forming magic chandeliers, lighting blistered galleries.
    
    [Narration:]
    **Admiring shades of lava, which imperceptibly passed
    from reddish brown to bright yellow, their way lit by crystals
    appearing as lighted globes, they continued through the lava
    gallery which gently sloped until they reached the intersection
    of two roads.  Without hesitation, Professor Liddenbrook chose
    the eastern tunnel.  And the journey continued, through a succession
    of arches appearing before them as if they were the isles of a
    Gothic cathedral.  The walls were enhanced with impressions
    of rock weeds, and mosses from the Silurian epoch.**
    
    [music]
    
    [Narration:]
    **The eastern route they had taken had come to a dead end.
    With three day's walk back to the fork to find Arnie Saclosin's [Arne Saknussemm's]
    original route, they found their water rations were limited
    to one day.  Knowing their only chance of finding water was
    on that route, they set off for the fork, and there, finally,
    they fell, almost lifeless on the third day.  After sleep, they
    continued down the other tunnel in their quest for water.  And
    while searching on his own, Hans, the guide, heard the sound
    of water thundering behind a granite wall, and with a pick axe,
    attacked the wall so as to allow a stream of boiling water to
    enter and cool in their tunnel.  Not only had they found life in
    the water, but they had also found a flowing guide to the centre
    of the earth.  They called the stream the Hansbath.**
    
    [music]
    
    [Narration:]
    **Replenished with the water, the journey continued with haste,
    but somehow they found themselves separated.  Professor Liddenbrook's
    nephew, Axel, found himself alone.  His mind was seized with
    unparalleled fear, and he saw memories of home flashing before
    him.  His fiance, Grauben.  His house and friends in Hamburg.
    He saw hallucinations of all the incidents of the journey.  And
    unworthy as he felt, he knelt in fervent prayer.  And then in
    panic he ran blindly through a tunnel, only to reach a dead end,
    where he fell panting for breath.  In the darkness, he cried.
    Voices.  Voices.  Voices.  He heard voices.  He heard his uncle's voice.
    Due to the shape of the gallery and the conducting power of the rocks,
    his uncle's voice was uncannily  traveling around the walls.  And by
    means of their chronometers, they discovered they were four miles
    apart.  So Axel set about the task of rejoining the Professor and
    their guide.**
    
    Yes: The Ladder 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