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Yes

℗ 1969 Atlantic Records SD 8243

Yes • 1969 • Yes

YES is the 1969 debut album from British progressive rock band Yes, considered among the first progressive rock albums. With the original Yes line-up of vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye and drummer Bill Bruford, Yes was the quintet's original musical statement, one that merged harmonic beauty with heavy instrumental backing. While many music critics regarded it as a strong initial effort, the album was not a large commercial success, due in part to the inexperience of the band and the producers. The album was also overshadowed by Led Zeppelin's debut album, released earlier that year. Two of the eight songs on the album are covers, which the band use to demonstrate their penchant for massively reworking others' songs; The Beatles' "Every Little Thing" is turned into a grungy wall of sound with several tempo changes, and The Byrds' "I See You" becomes a jazzy psychedelic workout for Banks and Bruford to display their instrumental virtuosity. Lester Bangs favourably reviewed the album in Rolling Stone, writing that it was "the kind of album that sometimes insinuates itself into your routine with a totally unexpected thrust of musical power."

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Beyond and Before

(Chris Squire — Clive Bailey)

Sparkling trees of Silver foam cast shadows soft in winter's home
Swaying branches breaking sound
In lonely forests trembling ground.

Masquerading leaves of blue
Run circles round the morning dew
In patterns understood by you
Reaching out beyond and before

Time like gold dust brings mind down
To levels hidden underground
Say a few words to the wind
That's all thats left of winters friend.

Reaching the snow
In the days of the cold
Casting a Spell out of Ice
Now that your gone the summers too long and it seems like the end of my life
Reaching out beyond and before

Time like gold dust brings mind down
Time like gold dust brings mind down

I See You

(Jim McGuinn — David Crosby)

I see you la la la la la la I see you
I see you la la la la la la I see you
I see you la la la la la la I see you
Sun smiling through the cave of your hair
Wind washing tulips out of space sitting there
I love you
At your door second floor first world war
I love you
Who listens tell your friend I'm aware that she care who listens
Green specks bright spiraling out in the sky catch my eye turn my head have to look don't know why
I see you
Everywhere behind your hair over there
I see you
I see you though your eyes can tell lies I sympathize,
I see you
Sun smiling through the cave of your hair
Wind washing tulips out of space sitting there
I love you
At your door second floor first world war
I love you
I see you,
Everywhere behind your hair over there
I see you
I see you though your eyes can tell lies I sympathize
I see you
I love you,
I love you at your door second floor first world war
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

Yesterday and Today

(Jon Anderson)

Why is there you,
When there are few,
People making me feel good.
Why is there me,
When air is free,
Some I can see better than I should,

There's only us, simply because,
Thinking of us makes us both happy
I think of you everyway, yesterday and today,
I think of things we do all the way everyday
Stand in the sea sing songs for me,
Sing happily making me feel good,
Watching your eyes,
Feeling your sighs, saying goodbyes better than I could,

There's only us, simply because,
Thinking of us makes us both happy
I think of you everyway yesterday and today,
I think of nothing but you things we do, things we do.

Looking Around

(Jon Anderson — Chris Squire)

Looking around me
There's not so much in life that I miss
Things that I can't see
I'll touch and I'll feel then I'll kiss

Then I saw you standing there
With a smile I couldn't share
Just looking around, everywhere.
Tunes that I can't hear, would take me for a while my smile

Fares that are too dear
I'd rather walk out another smile
Then I heard a tune so right
It was in the light of night just listening around everywhere

All the things I've wanted to do take so much time to get around to you just reach out and catch and hold on having trails of dust and lust but never even lying or trying just keep on moving
and never dying.

Smiles that I don't see
I'll make them up as I go on
Laughs that just can't be
I'll make and laugh at everyone

Then I saw you in your place with a laugh upon your face
Just looking around everywhere
Looking around with my feet on the ground full of words and of sound bring smiles all around
Satisfy me with your words that can be full of sound and I'll see I'm just looking around.

Harold Land

(Jon Anderson — Chris Squire — Bill Bruford)

Harold Land with a wave of his hand, said goodbye to all that,
He paid his bills, stopped the Milk, and 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.

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 one's so dear instead of one's so dear

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

Every Little Thing

(Lennon — McCartney)

When I'm walking beside her, people tell me I'm lucky
Yes I know I'm a lucky guy
I remember the first time
I was lonely without her can't stop thinking about her now

Every little thing she does she does for me yeah and you know the things she does she does for me

When I'm with her I'm happy
Just to know that she loves me
Yes I know that she love me now there is one thing I am sure of because I know love will never die

Sweetness

(Jon Anderson — Chris Squire — Clive Bailey)

She brings the sunshine to a rainy afternoon
She puts the sweetness in and stirs it with a spoon,

She watches for my moods and 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
Today she bought me in and told me where she'd been

She put my mind at rest and put the sweetness in
I'll ask her for some time to go and look around

She puts the sweetness in all around
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.

Survival

(Jon 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 begun, 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 that there's life within you, yesterday's endings will tomorrow's life give you, all that dies, dies for a reason, to put its strength into the Season,

Survival, Survival,
They take away as we give,
The livings right to live, the livings 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 life begins, survival win, survivals sin.
So soon the evening comes 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.

And we're all going
And we're all going
And we're all going somewhere!
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