Yessongs (1975) - full transcript

(wind howling)

(tranquil ambient music)

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

("I've Seen All Good People" by Yes)

♪ Take a straight and stronger course ♪

♪ To the corner of your life ♪

♪ Make the white queen run so fast ♪

♪ She hasn't got time to make you wise ♪



♪ No, no, no ♪

♪ 'Cause it's time, it's time in time ♪

♪ With your time and
its news is captured ♪

♪ For the queen to use ♪

♪ Move me on to any black square ♪

♪ Use me any time you want ♪

♪ Just remember that the gold ♪

♪ Is for us all to capture all we want ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Don't surround yourself with yourself ♪

♪ Move on back two squares ♪

♪ Send an instant karma to me ♪

♪ Initial it with loving care ♪

♪ 'Cause it's time, it's
time in time with your time ♪



♪ And its news is captured ♪

♪ For the queen to use ♪

♪ Don't surround yourself with yourself ♪

♪ Move on back two squares ♪

♪ Send an instant karma to me ♪

♪ Initial it with loving care, yourself ♪

♪ 'Cause it's time, it's
time in time with your time ♪

♪ And its news is captured ♪

♪ For the queen to use ♪

♪ 'Cause it's time, it's
time in time with your time ♪

♪ And its news is captured ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

♪ I've seen all good people
turn their heads each day ♪

♪ So satisfied, I'm on my way ♪

(applause)

- That's very nice, thank you.

The next little tune I'd like to dedicate

to the person that it was written for,

it's a little boy called Dylan somewhere.

This tune came about when he
was just about one day old.

("The Clap" by Yes)

(applause)

- Hope you all are having a good time.

Next song we're gonna do

is a song from our latest album.

It's a song we originally didn't name

when we were recording it.

Hope you like it.

A song called And You And I.

(applause)

("And You And I" by Yes)

♪ 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, coins and crosses ♪

♪ Never know their fruitless worth ♪

♪ Cords are broken ♪

♪ Locked inside the mother earth ♪

♪ They won't hide, they won't 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 ♪

♪ 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 sight
of seeds of life with you ♪

♪ 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 ♪

♪ 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 ♪

♪ 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 call over
valleys of endless seas ♪

(applause)

("Close To The Edge" by Yes)

♪ 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 ♪

♪ And taste the fruit of man recorded ♪

♪ Losing all against the hour ♪

♪ And assessing points to nowhere,
leading every 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 end, 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 colour 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 ♪

♪ 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 licence ♪

♪ 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, close by a river ♪

♪ Sudden cause 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 end, round by the corner ♪

♪ Close to the edge, just by a river ♪

♪ Seasons will pass you by ♪

♪ I get up, I get down ♪

♪ 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 billion 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 ♪

♪ I get up, I get down ♪

♪ I get up, I get down ♪

♪ The time between the notes
relates the colour to the scene ♪

♪ A constant vogue of triumphs
dislocate man, so it seems ♪

♪ And space between the focus
shape ascend knowledge of love ♪

♪ As song and chance develop time ♪

♪ Lost social temperance rules above ♪

♪ Then according to the man who showed ♪

♪ His outstretched arm to space ♪

♪ He turned around and pointed
revealing all the human race ♪

♪ I shook 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 corner ♪

♪ Down at the end, round by a river ♪

♪ 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 ♪

(applause)

(humming)

- Mr. Rick Wakeman, keyboardist.

(energetic keyboard music)

("Roundabout" by Yes)

♪ I'll be the roundabout ♪

♪ The words will make you out and out ♪

♪ I spend the day away ♪

♪ Call it morning driving
through the sound and ♪

♪ In and out the valley ♪

♪ The music dance and sing ♪

♪ They make the children really ring ♪

♪ I spend the day away ♪

♪ Call it morning driving
through the sound and ♪

♪ In and out the valley ♪

♪ In and around the lake ♪

♪ Mountains come out of the
sky and they stand there ♪

♪ One mile over we'll be
there and we'll see you ♪

♪ 10 true summers we'll be
there and laughing too ♪

♪ 24 before my love you'll see ♪

♪ I'll be there with you ♪

♪ I will remember you ♪

♪ Your silhouette will charge the view ♪

♪ Of distant atmosphere ♪

♪ Call it morning driving
through the sound and ♪

♪ Even in the valley ♪

♪ In and around the lake ♪

♪ Mountains come out of the
sky and they stand there ♪

♪ One mile over we'll be
there and we'll see you ♪

♪ 10 true summers we'll be
there and laughing too ♪

♪ 24 before my love you'll see ♪

♪ I'll be there with you ♪

♪ Along the drifting cloud ♪

♪ The eagle searching down on the land ♪

♪ Catching the swirling wind ♪

♪ The sailor sees the rim of the land ♪

♪ The eagle's dancing wings ♪

♪ Create as weather spins out of hand ♪

♪ Go closer hold the land ♪

♪ Feel partly no more
than grains of sand ♪

♪ We stand to lose all time ♪

♪ A thousand answers by in our hand ♪

♪ Next to your deeper fears ♪

♪ We stand surrounded by a million years ♪

♪ I'll be the roundabout ♪

♪ The words will make you out and out ♪

♪ I'll be the roundabout ♪

♪ The words will make you out and out ♪

♪ In and around the lake ♪

♪ Mountains come out of the
sky and they stand there ♪

♪ 24 before my love and I'll be there ♪

♪ I'll be the roundabout ♪

♪ The words will make you out and out ♪

♪ I spend the day away ♪

♪ Call it morning driving
through the sound and ♪

♪ Even in the valley ♪

♪ In and around the lake ♪

♪ Mountains come out of the
sky and they stand there ♪

♪ One mile over we'll be
there and we'll see you ♪

♪ 10 true summers we'll be
there and laughing too ♪

♪ 24 before my love you'll see ♪

♪ I'll be there with you ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da ♪

(applause)

- [Jon] Thank you.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you for coming tonight, take care.

Thank you.

(upbeat instrumental music)

("Yours Is No Disgrace" by Yes)

♪ Yesterday a morning came
a smile upon your face ♪

♪ Caesar's palace, morning
glory, silly human race ♪

♪ On a sailing ship to
nowhere, leaving any place ♪

♪ If the summer change to
winter, yours is no disgrace ♪

♪ Battleships confide in me
and tell me where you are ♪

♪ Shining, flying, purple
wolfhound, show me where you are ♪

♪ Lost in summer, born in
winter, travel very far ♪

♪ Lost in losing circumstances,
that's just where you are ♪

♪ Yesterday a morning came,
a smile upon your face ♪

♪ Caesar's palace, morning glory, ♪

♪ Silly human, silly human race ♪

♪ On a sailing ship to
nowhere, leaving any place ♪

♪ If the summer change to winter ♪

♪ Yours is no, yours is no disgrace ♪

♪ Yours is no disgrace ♪

♪ Yours is no disgrace ♪

♪ Battleships confide in me
and tell me where you are ♪

♪ Shining, flying, purple
wolfhound, show me where you are ♪

♪ Lost in summer, born in
winter, travel very far ♪

♪ Lost in losing circumstances,
that's just where you are ♪

(applause)

- Thank you.

("Starship Trooper" by Yes)