YES


Big Generator

(1987 / 2009)



1. Rhythm Of Love 4'47
(Tony Kaye / Trevor Rabin / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
©1987 AFFIRMATIVE MUSIC (BMI)
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2. Big Generator 4'35
(Trevor Rabin / Tony Kaye / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire / Alan White)
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Administered by WARNER / TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORPORATION (BMI)
3. Shoot High Aim Low 7'02
(Alan White / Tony Kaye / Trevor Rabin / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
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4. Almost Like Love 5'01
(Tony Kaye / Trevor Rabin / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
©1987 AFFIRMATIVE MUSIC (BMI)
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5. Love Will Find A Way 4'51
(Trevor Rabin)
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6. Final Eyes 6'26
(Trevor Rabin / Tony Kaye / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
©1987 AFFIRMATIVE MUSIC (BMI)
Administered by WARNER / TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORPORATION (BMI)
7. I'm Running 7'38
(Trevor Rabin / Chris Squire / Jon Anderson / Tony Kaye / Alan White)
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Administered by WARNER / TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORPORATION (BMI)
8. Holy Lamb
(Song For Harmonic Convergence) 3'23
(Jon Anderson)
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Bonus Tracks

9. Love Will Find A Way (Edited Version) 4'19

(Trevor Rabin)
10. Love Will Find A Way (Edited Version) 7'12
(Trevor Rabin)
11. Rhythm Of Love (Dance To The Rhythm Mix) 6'55
(Tony Kaye / Trevor Rabin / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
12. Rhythm Of Love (Move To the Rhythm Mix) 4'26
(Tony Kaye / Trevor Rabin / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
13. Rhythm Of Love (The Rhythm Of Dub]) 7'50
(Tony Kaye / Trevor Rabin / Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)

Total Time: 74:25


  • Jon Anderson - Lead Vocals
  • Trevor Rabin - Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  • Tony Kaye - Keyboards
  • Chris Squire - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
  • Alan White - Drums, Percussion

    Horns on 'Almost Like Love' by SOUL LIPS:

  • James "Z" Zavala
  • Lee Thornburg
  • Nick Lane
  • Greg Smith

    Harmonica on 'Love Will Find A Way' by

  • James "Z" Zavala

    Produced by YES, Trevor Rabin, Paul DeVilliers, Trevor Horn
    Mixed by Trevor Rabin
    Keyboards Programming: Kim Bullard
    String Arrangements: Trevor Rabin
    Engineered by Paul Massey, Alan Goldberg, David Glover, Trevor Rabin, Jon Jacobs, Dave Meegan
    Assistant Engineers: Julie Last, Jimmy Preziosi, Mike Kloster, Mike 'Spike' Drake, Stuart Breed, Brian Soucy, Lois Oki,'
    Design: MOUAT / A1
    Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at
    PRECISION LACQUER
    Management: Tony Dimitriades / Elliot Roberts / Robert Richards for LOCKOUT MANAGEMENT

    Thanks To:
    Laurance "Nunu" Whiting and Richard Davis.
    Also AKAI Systems, D'ADDARIO Strings, PRO ROCK, TOBIAS Guitars, WESTONE Guitars

    Special Thanks:

    Doug Morris, Sheldon Vegel, Dave Glew, Marco Knesz and everyone at ATLANTIC & ATCO RECORDS

    Recording Studios:

    LARK RECORDING STUDIOS, Caramati, Italia,
    SARM EAST & WEST RECORDING STUDIO, London
    SOUTHCOMBE STUDIOS, Los Angeles





    1. Rhythm Of Love

      Innocence no answer
      To your breaking heart
      If the situation
      Sometimes falls apart
      Then in this ecstasy
      Your charms are frozen
      No emotion falling through your arms

      Morning, daydream, time still growing shorter
      Take me over lead me to the water
      To the rhythm of love
      The rhythm of love
      The rhythm of love

      Why should I escort you
      To your secret needs
      Climbing up your ladder
      I keep falling down
      Anyway will do
      Anyone will do
      When you dance to your darkest tune
      Surrounded
      As you crawl around the room
      Night time fever burning till you're higher
      Take me over lead me through the fire
      The rhythm of love
      To the rhythm of love
      The rhythm of love
      To the rhythm of love

      Morning daydream midnight fever
      Morning daydream midnight fever
      Inhibitions keep you from your point of view
      Information needing to confuse
      In this situation I have found you
      In the rhythm of
      Morning daydream midnight fever
      Morning daydream midnight fever
      Rhythm of love
      Rhythm of love
      To the rhythm of love
      Rhythm of love

    2. Big Generator

      VERSE 1

      Such a strange pre-occupation
      Such a strange peculiar breed
      How it's shining in its armour
      Made of gold and made of steel
      It can strike a chord inside you
      Like a generation's need
      Speaking happy words of promise
    chorus 1:

    Big generator
    Lives out of sight
    Big generator
    Hands upon the wheel
      Moving to the left
      Movin'
      Moving to the right
      big generator
      moving through the night

      Second nature sacrifice
      Even if you close your eyes
      We exist through this strange disguise

      VERSE 2:

      I have heard it said to someone
      Or maybe it was me
      There is a reason to experience
      Psychedelic so we could see
      To be growing up before us
      Like the black and white of love
      Be the focus
      Be the chorus
    chorus 2:

    Big generator
    Hands upon the wheel
    Big generator
    In for the kill
      Second nature comes alive
      Even if you close your eyes
      We exist through this strange device

      Moving to the left
      Moving to the right
      Big generator
      Moving through the night

      We are the voices of the big generator

      Moving through the night
      Movin'

      Flying out the soft machine, we offer
      All surprise to you
      Praise oh praise this anthem generator

      Moving through the night
      Movin'

      We are the voice of every . . .

    3. Shoot High Aim Low

      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

    4. Almost Like Love

      Who was it organizing the right
      To follow my leader
      Seems we look and stand around waiting
      For a sign from God
      Speaking for myself
      The christian need
      The muslim need
      The buddhist need
      To testify the need for brotherly love

      I know there's so many hundred things
      Things to talk about
      Making us laugh
      Just like a shakespeare revolution
      Please organize our spiritual evolution
      Do that you'll feel it
      And we'll feel it
      Appreciate it's almost like love
      It's almost like love
      It's almost like love
      It's almost like love

      Saint or sinner
      Makes no difference in who you believe
      In a world of superstition
      Caught in a total nuclear greed

      Pioneers of the twenty first century
      Looking on and looking fast
      To try and fix and try and help
      This very need
      I know there's so many ways
      That we can work it out
      Whether we live or die

      Please organize the simple evolution
      so there's got to be
      so we can see
      to be free
      It's almost like love
      It's almost like love
      It's almost like love

      So promised in a hundred letters
      Should be getting to you any time now
      So promised a surprise for you
      For getting so far from now
      It's almost like love
      The way the first one out discovers
      It's almost like
      How many times can you recover
      It's almost

      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like
      It's almost like love

    5. Love Will Find A Way

      You wanna get close to me
      The feeling so clear
      But I need some time to see
      Vision through my tear
      You wanna get next to me
      I need your intrusion
      I don't need to be
      Blinded by confusion

      Here is my heart
      Waiting for you
      Here is my soul
      I eat at chez nous

      Love will find a way
      If you want it to
      Love will find a way
      Love will find a way for me and you

      Love will find a way
      Love will find a way
      Love will find a way
      Love will find a way

      So you want to get over me
      And that's how you feel
      Everything you want to be
      Seems so unreal
      I want to be all of you
      And that's the confusion
      It's so hard for me
      To draw a conclusion

      Here is my heart
      Waiting for you
      Here is my soul
      I eat at chez nous

      Love will find a way
      If you want it to
      Love will find a way
      Love will find a way

      Love will find a way
      If you want it to
      Love will find a way
      Love will find a way

      Love will find a way
      I believe that there's a way
      If you want it to
      Will love find a way
      Love will find a way
      Will love find a way
      Love will find a way

    6. Final Eyes

      Person to person woman to man
      Sing me a story to reach me
      Teach me to teach me to understand
      All these emotions I miss you

      So you leave her
      Can't believe her
      Can't escapse
      Final eyes
      Final eyes

      Person to person woman to man
      Send me this song that will teach me
      Like a river without a stream
      Night time without dreaming
      Send me this song that will reach me

      So you leave me
      Can't deceive me
      See through me
      Final eyes
      Final eyes

      And I know you think there's nothing
      There's nothing more to say
      And I know that I've got something
      I've got something to say

      If ever I needed someone
      You were there when I needed you

      If ever I needed someone
      You were there when I needed you

      If ever I needed someone
      You were there when I needed you

      Person to person woman to man
      Send me this song that will teach me
      Like a river without a stream
      Night time without dreaming
      Send me this song that will reach me

      So you leave me
      Can't deceive me
      See through me
      Final eyes

      And I know you think there's nothing
      There's nothing more to say
      Don't hide behind the headlines oh yea
      I've got something to say

      If ever I needed someone
      You were there when I needed you
      If ever I needed someone
      You were there when I needed you

      Whenever I needed
      Whenever I needed
      Whenever I needed

      Someone

      If ever I needed
      Whenever I needed someone
      You were there when I needed you

      You saved me from falling
      Saved me from falling
      I'm so in love with you

    7. I'm Running

      Jacaranda
      Help me out tomorrow
      Jacaranda
      Don't want to be alone
      Keep falling over
      A spell that brings me sorrow
      Give and take
      I shouldn't be afraid
      So you give me this big story
      It wakes me every day
      The challenge is to chase the sounds
      Just to break away

      And I'm running
      Running
      Yes I'm running
      A simple peace
      Just can't be found
      Waste another day
      Blasting all their lives away
      I've heard the thunder
      Underground
      Tunneling away
      At the very soul of man

      And I'm running
      Yes I'm running
      I'm running
      Through a new world

      There is the heart of millions
      Seen as a godsend to us
      There stands our future
      There can be no denying
      Simple as A B C D
      There stands our children's lives

      All in the sharp step
      As one together
      All in all we race
      As one
      This time

      A simple peace
      Just can't be found
      Waste another day
      Blasting all their lives away
      I've heard the thunder
      Underground
      Tunneling away
      At the very soul of man
      At the very soul of man

      And I'm running
      Running
      I'm running

      See through science
      Part of a back door
      A door made up of doors
      To an endless time
      To a new world
      Run

      There in the heart of millions
      Seen as a godsend to us
      There stands our future
      There can be no denying
      Simple as A B C D
      There stands our children's lives

      All in the sharp step
      As one together
      All in all we race
      As one
      This time

      Hear this voice
      Now and forever
      This time, brothers in time
      Is it hard to take
      Take this coice
      Is it hard to find
      Now and forever
      This fire brothers of fire
      Hard to find

      As it kicks so hard
      Hard to find
      As it kicks on time
      As it kicks on time

      There in the heart of millions
      Seen as a godsend to us
      There stands our future
      There can be no denying
      Simple as A B C D
      As it kicks so
      As it kick so
      As it kick so
      There in the heart of millions
      Seen as a godsend to us

      All in a sharp step
      As one together
      All in all we race
      as one
      this time

    8. Holy Lamb ( Song For Harmonic Convergence )

      Holy lamb
      See the world we started
      Is it so low again
      Like a light that's lost upon the stage
      So the more it shines, 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