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song list next song Yes/ABWH: Letter G Yes: Yes Harold Land
(Anderson/Squire/Bruford)
Harold Land with a wave of his hand said goodbye to all that.
He paid his bills and stopped the milk, then put on his hat.
He tried to say his last farewells as quickly as he could,
Promising that he would return, but doubted that he would,
Doubted that he would, doubted.

Now he's marching soldiers in the rain as on to war they rode.
A long thin line of human mind, damnation as their load.
In the mud in coldness dark, he'd shiver out his fear,
What disappointing sights he'd seen instead of ones so dear,
Instead of ones so dear, so dear.

Going home,                        He's going home to the land he loved so well.
Going home,                                 He fought for two years, never fell.
Going home,                                                     He's going home,
Going home.                                                     He's going home.

Harold Land with a wave of his hand stood sadly on the stage,
Clutching red ribbons from a badge, but he didn't look his age.
Only two years had passed between his leaving home and back;
He had lost his love and youth while leading the attack, leading the attack.

In conversation it could be said,
Well after war your heart is dead.
Well it's not hard to understand,
There is no heart in Harold Land.
song list next song previous song Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: Fragile Heart Of The Sunrise
(Anderson/Squire/Bruford)
Love comes to you and you follow
Lose one on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with its arms
All around me

Lost on a wave and then after
Dream on on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with so many around me
Lost in the city

Lost in their eyes as you hurry by
Counting the broken ties they decide
Love comes to you and then after
Dream on on to the heart of the sunrise
Lost on a wave that you're dreaming
Dram on on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with its arms all around
Me
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with so many around me
I feel lost in the city

Lost in their eyes as you hurry by
Counting the broken ties they decided

Straightt light moving and removing
SHARPNESS of the colour sun shine
Straight light searching all the meanings
Of the song
Long last treatment of the telling that
Relates to all the words sung
Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits
You

Love comes to you and then after
Dream on on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the sun with its arms all around
Me
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with so many around me
I feel lost in the city
song list next song previous song Jon Anderson: Change We Must Jon Anderson: The Best Of South America Yes: 90125 Hearts
(Anderson/Squire/Rabin/White/Kaye)
Hearing - Talking - Yes I - Love you

Set your heart sail on the river
Look around you as you drift downstream                                  Hearing
Pouring souls into the ocean                                             Talking
Take account of all you've seen                                         Love you

One people - Together
Freedom for today
So easy the future
So see the children's way

Love me
Teach me
Know me

One people - Together
Freedom for today
Tomorrow forever
So see the people's way

Many moons cascade one river
They light from side to side
As we cross in close proximity
Like rivers our hearts entwine
How we talk - How we teach our children
How we move - We direct our eyes
All the senses tuned discovery
As and as and when our hearts decide
Be ready now - Be ye circle
Be the central force ye life
As the game extends the cycle
Be ready to move

One heart's for love                                                      Hearts
One's for giving                                          Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better                                                     Hearts
Than one                                                     Throwing out a line
I hearing it                                                              Hearts
I living it
I believe in it                                        Sharing out your fortunes
Two hearts are better                                                     Hearts
Than one                                                      In and out of time

Hearing - Talking - Yes I - Love you

Solo

One heart's for love                                                      Hearts
One's for giving                                          Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better                                                     Hearts
Than one                                                     Throwing out a line
I hearing it                                                              Hearts
I living it
I believe in it                                        Sharing out your fortunes
I loving it
Two hearts are better                                                     Hearts
Than one                                                      In and out of time

Who would believe you - Wise men do
Days that we knew it clear with you
You sing the answers question time
Now it you need me let our hearts entwine
Let our hearts entwine

Hearts - Sailing down the river
Hearts - Throwing out a line
I hearing it - I living it - I believe in it - I loving it

Hearts
Two hearts will always be
In and out of time

Solo

One heart's for love                                                      Hearts
One's for giving                                          Sailing down the river
Two hearts are better                                                     Hearts
Than one                                                     Throwing out a line
I hearing it                                                              Hearts
I living it
I believe in it                                        Sharing out your fortunes
I loving it
Two hearts are better                                                     Hearts
Than one                                                      In and out of time

As we flow down life's rivers
I see the star glow - One by one
All angels of the magic constellation
Be singing us now
song list next song previous song Yes: Yesyears Yes: 90125 Hold On
(Rabin/Anderson/Squire)
Justice to the left of you
Justice to the right
Speak when you are spoken to
Don't pretend you're right
This life's not for living
It's for fighting and for war
No matter what the truth is
Hold on to what is yours

Jigsaw puzzle traitors
Set to spill the beans
Constitution screw up
Shattering the dreams
Blood flows in the desert
Dark citadels burning too
Watch! Look over your shoulder
This one is strictly for you

Hold on - Hold on
Wait maybe the answer's
Looking for you

Hold on - Hold on
Wait! Take you time
Think it through
Yes! I can make it through

Hold on - Hold on
Sunshine shine on through
Hold on - Hold on
Sunshine shine on you

See it through

Talk the simple smile
Such platonic eye
How they drown in incomplete capacity
Strangest of them all
When the feeling calls
How we drown in stylistic audacity
Charge the common ground
Round and round and round
We living in gravity

Shake - We shake so hard
How we laugh so loud
When we reach
We believe in eternity

I believe in eternity

Hold on - Hold on
Wait - Take your time                                  Sunshine shine on through
See it through
Hold on - Hold on
Wait - Maybe a chance                                  Sunshine shine on through
Is looking for you                                         Sunshine shine on you

Hold on - Hold on
Hold on - Hold on

Sunshine - Shine on shine on you
Sunshine - Shine on through
Sunshine - Shine on shine on through
Sunshine - Shine on you

Sunshine - Shine on - Shine on you                             Hold on - Hold on
Sunshine - Shine on through                                Wait - Take your time
                                                                  See it through
Sunshine - Shine on - Shine on through                         Hold on - Hold on
Sunshine - Shine on you                Wait - Maybe the answer's looking for you
song list next song previous song Yes: Union Holding On
(Anderson/Elias/Howe)
See the searching...
See the people...

Out in the darkness and soul searching
Did you find what we had lost?
All this time I've got to thinking about the promises;
How long this energy of Winter?
How many times that we could never love?
How many times is time enough?

All the foolish notions: When we'll die that's all that is.
We can never really understand the broken promises.
All along we run together (Remember?)
All along we run as one (Remember?)
When you find a perfect union, you've got to follow it.

Stop that reasoning  (you've got the answer)
Stop that thinking out loud! (you've got the answer)
Go where your heart takes you to (you've got the answer!)
You're not that innocent!  You've been around!
You're not that innocent...

Got to be right; got it coming to you.
How many times is time enough? (Time enough...)
Your time is just beginning out of all where we came from.
Holding on: This point receiving; there it is, there it is, there it is

Holding on, Can you remember
Holding on, Was it ever like this?
Holding on, It's the most important thing.

It was the first time that I saw you
It was the first time that I knew
Out of all my disbelieving,
Holding on, I was holding you.
song list next song previous song Yes: Big Generator Holy Lamb
(Anderson)
Holy lamb
See the world we stamped
Is it so low again
Like a light that's lost upon the stage
So the more it swings, it goes away

Surely then
See the curtain rising to show us once again
All the magic of the earth and the skies
See the more we find
The more we realize

That every time
See the laws of nature keep telling us like a friend
It's the spirit of emotion dancing to the wind
High above
High above
So sure inspired again

I can tell a new story now
Can we see through this mask of uncertainty
Surely now
How can it be so hard when all there is to know
Don't be afraid of letting go
It takes a loving heart
To see and show
This love
For our own ecology

Hold the light
Hold the light
Out of love we'll come a long long glorious way
At the start of every day
A child begins to play
And all we need to know
Is that the future is a friend of yours and mine
song list Yes/ABWH: Letter I previous song Yes: The Ladder (limited edition bonus disc) Yes: The Ladder Homeworld (The Ladder)
(Anderson/Howe/Sherwood/Squire/White/Khoroshev; lyrics: Anderson)
Nothing can take us far enough
Emotion... far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in

Nothing can bridge our souls'
Devotion... fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin

So many displaced among the future dreamers
Realised their doubles
Took a new step
A question of origin

Only in the recent past
Seeking for to realise
Skyward shone
Like beacons
A question of origin
    
Ten thousand millions free
To the westward light
The dreamers represent
This arc of peace

As the poets entranced
The anchor redeemed
Secrets of science
The history of the future
Was surely made
  
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realise
Our home
Is our world, our life
Home is our world
     
Nothing can take us far enough
Emotion... far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in

Nothing can bridge our souls
Devotion... fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
   
Speak so fast to the prophets
Of the living
Looking for the signs
Spanning out the centuries
Search for truth

Ancient ones... they watch   
And listen
Carry our wishes...
Took upon themselves to guide us
Through the endless skies
       
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realise
Our home
Is our world, our life
Our hope is our world, our life

I have seen the passion
That's in the hope that everyone
Will find their way into
The secret of
The home of your heart
               
Living within the vision
Within the power, beyond belief
We see that hate destroys the soul
Of anyone who tries to teach it

I have seen the dream
That's in your heart
That's in your eyes
To bring you closer to the one    

It's what keeps us so alive
It's what makes us realise
Our home is our world, our life
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realise
Our home
Is our world, our life
Home is our world, our life

Send, ascending to the secrets
All is pure and clear to resolve
Nothing can change us now
Send, ascending to the future
Nothing can ever change us now
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
We follow the sun

Truth is a simple place
Here for us all to see
Reach as it comes to you
As it comes to me
As I will always need you inside my heart

Peace  is a word we teach
A place for us all to reach
Sing as it sings to you
As it sings to me
As I will always need you inside my heart