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song list next song Yes/ABWH: Letter R Yes: Union Saving My Heart
(Rabin)
In the street where we live there's a place called desire.
There's a stone-cold intrusion of mad man's fire,
But he leaves when the lust and desire released,
And you're left with an empty room in peace.

Saving my heart for you - You do what you want to do
There's a place in my heart for you - This time I'm watching you
Till the blood in my veins run dry - I'll be there to testify
There's a place in my heart for you...

I've been lost in the maze of emotional confound.
I believe that you knew our faith was secure;
How you kept up your smile with a cool disposition,
Are you stocking the fire with a new sense of reason...

You tell me to take it easy, but it's not my style.
There's something around the corner; it'll pass you by.
I wanna hold you closer to connect my fortunes.
I wannt take you higher, taking off like we did before.
song list 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
song list next song previous song Yes: Union Shock To The System
(Anderson/Howe/Elias)
Shock to the system,
But you're going back inside of the light.
Shock to the freedom,
Only one more body of love, and they're rolling - They're rolling back to you!
Dreaming all the time; they be dreaming all the time.

Shock to the politicians;
You know they just got burned by the fire.
Shock to the freedom whispers;
They're only coming after, they're rolling - They're rolling, coming over!
Dreaming all the time; they be dreaming all the time.

So, in answer to the prayer,
The one you want is there,
The one you feel inside of you.
So, in answer to the dream,
This time you are so clear;
It's always got to be this way!
Forever...

Shock to the future;
Shock to the rights of Mankind.
And they won't even go blind,
When they can't see what's going on.

So, in answer to the prayer,
The one you feel is there,
The one you feel so close to (The order of the Sun).
And everyone is one,
And all the pieces fit together.
Did it all begin with someone?
Did it all begin with someone?
I couldn't have pictured being alive!

Shock to the system...
song list next song previous song Yes: Yesyears Yes: Big Generator Shoot High Aim Low
(White/Kaye/Rabin/Anderson/Squire)
We hit the blue fields
In the blue sedan we didn't get much further
Just as the sun was rising in the mist
We were all alone we didn't need much more

So fast this expidition
So vast this heavy load
With a touch of luck and a sense of need
Seeing the guns and their faces
We look around the open shore
Waiting for something

Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low

This was to be our last ride
With the steel guitar and the love you give me
Underneath the skin a feeling, a breakdown
Well we sat for hours on the crimson sand

Exchanges in the currency of humans bought and sold
And the leaders seem to lose control

Shall we lose ourselves for a reason
Shall we burn ourselves for the answer
Have we found the place that we're looking for
Someone shouted "open the door"
Lookout

Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Feeling of imagination
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low

Shoot high aim low
Nothing you can say
Shoot high let go
Takes me by surprise

Shoot high aim low
Who says's there's got to be a reason
Shoot high let go
Who says there's got to be an answer

We were all alone, we didn't need much more
Shoot high aim low
The sun's so hard on this endless highway
Shoot high let go
Shoot high aim low
I've heard the singers, who sing of love
Shoot high let go
In the blue sedan we never got much further
Shoot high aim low
song list next song previous song Yes: 9012Live - The Solos Si
(Kaye)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension Yes: Yessongs Yes: Close To The Edge Siberian Khatru
(Anderson/Howe/Wakeman)
Sing, bird of prey;
Beauty begins at the foot of you. Do you believe the manner?
Gold stainless nail,
Torn through the distance of man
As they regard the summit.

Even Siberia goes through the motions.
Hold out and hold up;
Hold down the window.                            Outbound, river,
Hold out the morning that comes into view.     Bluetail, tailfly.
River running right on over my head.

How does she sing?
Who holds the ring? And ring and you will find me coming.
Cold reigning king,
Hold all the secrets from you
As they produce the movement.

Even Siberia goes through the motions.
Hold out and hold up;
Hold down the window.                            Outbound, river,
Hold out the morning that comes into view.     Bluetail, tailfly.
River running right over the outboard, river,
Bluetail, tailfly,
Luther, in time.
Dood'ndoodit, dah, d't-d't-dah.

Hold down the window;
Hold out the morning that comes into view.
Warm side, the tower;
Green leaves reveal the heart spoken Khatru.

Gold stainless nail,
Torn through the distance of man as they regard the summit.
Cold reigning king,
Shelter the women that sing
As they produce the movement.
River running right on over,
Then over my head.                               Outboard, river.

Bluetail, tailfly,
Luther, in time,
Suntower, asking,
Cover, lover,
June cast, moon fast,
As one changes,
Heart gold, leaver,
Soul mark, mover,
Christian, changer,
Called out, saviour,
Moon gate, climber,
Turn round, glider.
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension 2 Sign Language
(Wakeman/Howe)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Union Silent Talking
(Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford/Elias)
Does it matter if you broke this spell
So unreal is the future life along the way
They dare you
To turn around, it all comes through this feel.
It doesn't ring true.

Silent talking in the system, ringing to this beautiful world.
Silent talking, always dreaming, sing me to this beautiful world.
Silent talking in the system, ringing to this beautiful world.
Silent talking, always dreaming, sing me to this beautiful world.
song list next song previous song Yes: Yessongs Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives Of Henry VIII The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Excerpts)
(Wakeman)
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song list next song previous song Yes: 9012Live - The Solos Solly's Beard
(Rabin)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Open Your Eyes The Solution
(...)
No need to wonder - Do you belong?
No need to worry
You can be strong

Don't disbelieve it
  let your fears go
There must be more to this life
  and we all know

Deep inside
  The solution
    Staring you down
Looking for
  The solution
    Bringing you 'round

Round and round we go
Round and round we go

The past can haunt your future so
Shadows are falling look out below

Voices are calling echoes unknown
There must be more to this life than we all know

Looking for
  The solution
    Staring you down
Deep inside
  The solution
    Bringing you 'round

Giving it out
Giving it out
Do the best that you can do
Giving it out
Giving it out
It's all up to you

Giving it out
Giving it out
Do the best that you can do
Giving it out
Giving it out
It's all up to you

It's all up to you

Over and under and down we go
      (Down we go)
Caught at the crossroads - Which way to go?
      (Path unknown)
Choosing the right path?
Only you know

Looking for
The solution
You hold the key
Deep inside
The solution
Set yourself free

Round and round we go
Round and round we go

Giving in, giving out
Do the best you can do
Giving in, giving out
It's all up to you

Giving in, giving out
Do the best you can do
Giving in, giving out
It's all up to you

It's all up to you
It's all up to you
song list next song previous song Yes: Open Your Eyes Somehow Someday
(...) Jon Anderson: The Promise Ring
this song contains partially lyrics for Jon Anderson's song O'er
So the blue bird will fly o'er the world and the stars
In the moonlight we prays for forgiveness that's ours
Only now can she rest from the singing of songs
And the freedom of love

Chances are when you give the love you have
You will find it coming right back
Giving into the love
You know it's right
It's a feeling you'll long remember

Hearts will be chosen
  Somehow
  Someday
Hearts will be chosen

Sailing into the dreams of what could be
Reaching out for some form of contact
Waiting for the one you know is right
All you're needing to do
Surrender

Someday
Hearts will be chosen
  Somehow
  Someday
Hearts will be chosen

So many times on the clouds of forgiveness
We walk through the country and feel so at ease
A gentle reminder how things really are
In the homelands of love

Face to face with the one you really love
Moving forward down the right track
Chances are when you give all that you have
You will find it flooding right back

Someday
Hearts will be chosen
  Somehow
  Someday
Hearts will be chosen

O'er the green mountains and o'er the green valleys
The bluebird of faith sails far off to the shore
She sleeps on the breeze of the coming of love
For the homelands of Ireland

So many times on the clouds of forgiveness
We walk through the country and feel so at ease
A gentle reminder how things really are
In the homelands of love

So the blue bird will fly o'er the world and the stars
In the moonlight she prays for forgiveness that's ours
Only now can she rest from the singing of songs
And the freedom of love
song list next song previous song Yes: Something's Coming Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Something's Coming
(Sondheim/Bernstein)
Could be
Who knows?
There something due any day
I will know right away
Soon as it shows

It may come cannon-ballin* down from the sky
Gleam in its eye
Bright as a rose
Who knows?

It*s only just out of reach
Down a block, on the beach
Under a tree
I got a feeling there*s a miracle due
Gotta come through
Coming to me

Could it be
Yes it could
Something*s coming
Something good
If I can wait

Something*s coming
I don*t know what it is
But it is
Going to be great

With a click
With a shock
Bell will jingle
Door will knock
Open the latch

Something*s coming
I don*t know what it is
But it is
Going to be great

Around the corner
A-whistlin* down the river
Come on deliver
To me
To me

Could be
Who knows?
There something due any day
I will know right away
Soon as it shows

It may come cannon-ballin* down from the sky
Gleam in its eye
Bright as a rose
Who knows?

It*s only just out of reach
Down a block, on the beach
Under a tree
I got a feeling there*s a miracle due
Gotta come through
Coming to me
To me

Tonight, Tonight
Won*t be just any night
Tonight there will be no morning star.

Tonight.
song list next song previous song Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes Yes: Highlights - The Very Best Of Yes Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: 9012Live - The Solos Yes: Yesshows Yes: Relayer Soon (from Gates Gates of Delirium)
(Anderson)
Soon oh soon the light
Pass within and soothe the endless night
And wait here for you
Our reason to be here

Soon oh soon the time
All we move to gain will reach and calm
Our heart is open
Our reason to be here

Long ago, set into rhyme

Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
song list next song previous song Yes: Yesyears Yes: Relayer Sound Chaser
(Anderson/Howe/Squire/White/Moraz)
Faster moment spent spread tales of change within the sound
Counting form through rhythm electric freedom
Moves to counter-balance stars expound our conscience
All to know and see
The look in your eyes

Passing time will reach as nature relays to set the scene
New encounters spark a true fruition
Guiding lines we touch  them
Our bodies balance out the waves
As we accelerate our days
To the look in your eyes

From the moment I reached out to hold
I felt a sound
And what touches our soul slowly moves as touch rebounds
and to know that tempo will continue lost in trance of dances
As rhythm takes another turn
As is my want I only reach
To look in your eyes...
song list next song previous song Yes: Fragile South Side Of The Sky
(Anderson/Squire)
A river a mountain to be crossed
The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost
Around the south side so cold that we cried
Were we ever colder on that day a million
Miles away
It seemed from all eternity

Move forward was my friend's only cry
In deeper to somewhere we could lie
And rest forthe the day with cold in the way
Were we ever colder on that day a million
Miles away
It seemed from all eternity

The moments seemed lost in all the noise
A snow storm a stimulating voice
Of warmth of the sky of warmth when you die
Were we ever warmer on that day a million
Miles away
We seemed from all eternity

The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost
The river can disregard the cost
And melt in the sky warmth when you die
Were we ever warmer on that day a million miles away
We seemed from all of eternity
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Highlights - The Very Best Of Yes Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: The Yes Album Starship Trooper
I. Life Seeker
(Anderson)
Sister Bluebird flying high above,
Shine your wings forward to the sun.
Hide the myst'ries of life on your way.
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word.
What you don't know, I have never heard.

Starship Trooper, go sailing on by,
Catch my soul, catch the very night.
Hide the moment from my eager eyes.
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul.
What you can't see, can't be very whole.

Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that,
In the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.

Mother life, hold firmly on to me.
Catch my knowledge higher than the day.
Lose as much as only you can show.
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word.
What I don't know, I have never shared.
song list next song previous song Yes: Something's Coming Yes: Keys To Ascension ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Highlights - The Very Best Of Yes Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: The Yes Album Starship Trooper
II. Disillusion
(Squire)
Loneliness is a pow'r that we possess to give or take away forever.
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the fact there shown before you.
Take what I say in a diff'rent way and it's easy to see
        that this is all confusion.
As I see a new day in me, I can also show if you and you may follow.

Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that,
In the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.
song list next song previous song Yes: Keys To Ascension Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes ABWH: An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes: Highlights - The Very Best Of Yes Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Classic Yes Yes: Yessongs Yes: The Yes Album Starship Trooper
III. Würm
(Howe)
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song list next song previous song Yes: Talk State Of Play
(Rabin/Anderson)
You can hear the siren screaming
Take me to the promised land
See the intervention
Take you higher and higher
See we are the giving world
We are responsible
We're not about to break

CHORUS
It's just a state of play
It's just a state of play

This is the revolution coming
With the giving world
No need to wait for your
Appointment is made
No need to ask for help, it's in
The love we breathe
Dancing in the new design

CHORUS

Secret needing from this love I'm feeding
High time flying monumental
Reaching to God love
Secret needing all i really
Want to know right now
The state of play
Are you looking at it
Is it looking at you

CHORUS

No point in kidding let the
Children split the atom
A firm believer this appointment with love
All those who look for glory
They see the flags are flying
They hear the siren screaming

CHORUS

Secret needing from this love I'm feeding
High time flying
All I really want to know
Right now, right now
(I want to be inside your heart)
I want to know right now is
This the state of play
Are you looking at it
song list next song previous song Yes: Symphonic Music Of Yes Yes: Highlights - The Very Best Of Yes Yes: Yesstory Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yesterdays Yes: Yes Survival
(Anderson)
Sunshine is creeping in
And somewhere in a field a life begins
An egg too proud to rape
The beginning of a shape of things to come
That starts the run
Life has begu
Fly fast the gun

The mother flew too late
And life within the egg was left to fate
Not really knowing how
The world outside would take it when it came
And life's the same
For things we aim
Are we to blame?

Don't doubt the fact there's life within you
Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you
All that dies
Dies for a reason
To put its strength into the seasons
Survival,
Survival
They take away and they give
The living's right to live (its all that we need to give)
The living's right to know

The egg breaks all is out
The crawling bird begins to scream and shout
Where is the parent bird?
A loneliness arose and heard its name -- ring in
For lives, begin
Survival win
Survival sin

So soon the evening comes
And with it runs the aching fear of hate
Could someone still remain
Who thinks he still could gain by escaping fate?
It's much too late
Don't underrate
Appreciate

Don't doubt the fact there's life within you
Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you
All that dies
Dies for a reason
To put its strength into the seasons
Survival,
Survival
They take away and they give
The living's right to live (its all that we need to give)
The living's right to know

Survival,
Survival
They take away and they give
The living's right to live (its all that we need to give)
The living's right to know (its all that we have to show)
And we're all going (And we're all going )
And we're all going (And we're all going )
And we're all going somewhere
song list next song previous song Yes: Something's Coming Yes: Yesyears Yes: Yesterdays Yes: Time And A Word Sweet Dreams
(Anderson/Foster)
Sweet dreams can solve the future,
Sweet dreams provide the past.
Sweet things within your makeup;
These things will always last,
These things will make

Sweet dreams of conversation,
Sweet dreams of love affection.
Sweet words within your makeup;
Sweet words of things to

Come on and write your letter,
You know it will be better anyhow.
You're gonna laugh again,
You're gonna smile again,
You're gonna love again.

Sweet dreams are born inside you,
Sweet dreams are born to last.
Sweet thoughts within your makeup;
These thoughts will always last,
These thoughts will always last.

Come on and write your letter,
You know it will be better anyhow.
You're gonna laugh again,
You're gonna smile again,
You're gonna love again.

Sweet dreams can solve the future,
Sweet dreams provide the past.
Sweet dreams can solve the future,
Sweet dreams provide the past.
song list next song previous song Yes: Something's Coming Yes: Yes Sweetness
(Anderson/Squire/Bailey)
She brings the sunshine to a rainy afternoon;
She puts the sweetness in, stirs it with a spoon.
She watches for my moods, never brings me down;
She puts the sweetness in, all around.
She knows just what to say to make me feel so good inside.
And when I'm all alone I feel I don't want to hide, hide, hide.

Today she brought me in, told me where she'd been;
She put my mind at rest, put the sweetness in.
I'll ask her for some time to go and look around;
She puts the sweetness in with a sound.
She knows just what to say to make a sunny day.
And when I'm all alone I really don't feel that way.
Tell me, how would you feel with no world of your own and nobody to hold?
I just can't see the way; I'm so glad it's today and you're here, you're here.

She brings the sunshine to a rainy afternoon;
She puts the sweetness in, stirs it with a spoon.
She watches for my moods, never brings me down;
She puts the sweetness in, all around.
She knows just what to say to make me feel so good inside.
And when I'm all alone I really don't feel that way.

Oh how I need her so,
I know she'll never go. Doo doo doo doot n doo.
She'll never leave me, believe me, no. Doo doo doo doot n doo.
She'll never go, no no no no no no no no no no no no.
song list Yes/ABWH: Letter T previous song Yes: Friends And Relatives Wakeman with Wakeman: Wakeman & Wakeman Sync Or Swim
(Rick Wakeman/Adam Wakeman)
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