YES


Keys To Ascension 2

(2 CD)

(1997)




Disc 1
(Live Tracks. Recordrd March 1996)

1. I've Seen All Good People 7'15
(Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
©RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.
2. Going For The One 4'58
(Jon Anderson)
©WARNER-CHAPPELL Ltd.
3. Time And A Word 6'24
(Jon Anderson / David Foster)
©RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.
4. Close To The Edge 19'40
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe / Chris Squire / Rick Wakeman)
©RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.
5. Turn Of The Century 7'55
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe / Alan White)
©WARNER-CHAPPELL Ltd.
6. And You And I 10'50
(Jon Anderson / Bill Bruford / Steve Howe / Chris Squire)
©RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.

Disc 2
(Studio Tracks)

8. Mind Drive 18'39
(Jon Anderson / Chris Squire / Alan White / Steve Howe / Rick Wakeman)
©OPIO MUSIC PUBLISHING (Administered by BUG MUSIC) / CARLIN MUSIC PUBLISHING / WARNER-CHAPPELL Ltd. / BASEDOWN Ltd. / NOTTINGHILL MUSIC / PXM PUBLISHING / EMI MUSIC GmbH
9. Footprints 9'09
(Jon Anderson / Chris Squire / Steve Howe / Alan White)
©OPIO MUSIC PUBLISHING (Administered by BUG MUSIC) / CARLIN MUSIC PUBLISHING / WARNER-CHAPPELL Ltd. / BASEDOWN Ltd. / NOTTINGHILL MUSIC
10. Bring Me The Power 7'25
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe)
©OPIO MUSIC PUBLISHING (Administered by BUG MUSIC) / BASEDOWN Ltd. / NOTTINGHILL MUSIC
11. Children Of Light : 6'06
(i) Children Of Light
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis / Chris Squire)
©OPIO MUSIC PUBLISHING (Administered by BUG MUSIC) / COPYRIGHT CONTROL / CARLIN MUSIC PUBLISHING
(ii) Lifeline
(Rick Wakeman / Steve Howe)
©PXM PUBLISHING / EMI MUSIC GmbH / BASEDOWN Ltd. / NOTTINGHILL MUSIC
12. Sign Language 3'28
(Rick Wakeman / Steve Howe)
©BASEDOWN Ltd. / NOTTINGHILL MUSIC / PXM PUBLISHING / EMI MUSIC GmbH

Total Time: 57:02 + 44:47


  • Rick Wakeman - Keyboards
  • Jon Anderson - Guitar, Harp, Vocals
  • Steve Howe - Guitar, Guitar (Steel), Vocals, 12-String Electric Guitar, 12-String Acoustic Guitar
  • Chris Squire - Guitar (Bass), Vocals
  • Alan White - Drums, Vocals

    YES - Producer
    Tom Fletcher - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
    Billy Sherwood - Mixing
    Bill Smith - Mixing
    Kevin Dickey - Digital Editing, Assistant Engineer, Mixing
    Roger Dean - Design, Illustrations, Paintings, Lettering, Logo
    Martyn Dean - Package Design



    Disc 1

    1. I've Seen All Good People

      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.

      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 a wife.

      '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 goal
      Is for us all to capture all we want
      (Move me on to any black square)
      Yea, yea, yea.

      Don't surround yourself with yourself,
      Move on back two squares,
      Send an Instant Karma to me,
      Initial it with loving care
      Don't surround
      Yourself.

      'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
      For the queen to use.
      Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
      Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit
      Didda.
      Don't surround yourself with yourself,
      Move on back two squares,
      Send an Instant Karma to me,
      Initial it with loving care

      Don't surround
      Yourself with yourself.
      Don't surround yourself.

      Send an Instant
      Karma to me. Don't surround yourself.

      'Cause it's time, it's time in time with your time and its news is captured
      For the queen to use.
      Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
      Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
      Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
      Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.

      '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.
      Yea, yea.
      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.

    2. Going For The One

      Get the idea cross around the track
      Underneath the flank of a thoroughbred racing chaser
      Getting the feel as a river flows
      Would you like to go n' shoot the mountain masses
      And here you stand no taller than the grass sees
      And should you really chase so hard
      The truth of sport plays rings around you

      Going for the one
      Going for the one

      Get in the way as the tons of water
      Racing with you crashing thru the rudder
      Once at the start you gamble
      That you really surely really mean to finish
      After seeing all your sense of fear diminish
      As you treat danger a pure collection
      As you throw away misconceptions
      Going for the one
      Going for the one
      Going for a listen in time
      taken so high
      to touch to move
      listen to life
      touching touch time
      travel twilight
      taken so high
      Roundabout, sounding out, love you so
      love you so
      love you so


      Now the verses I've sang
      Don't add much weight to the story in my head
      So I'm thinking I should go and write a punch line
      But they're so hard to find
      In my cosmic mind
      So I think I'll take a look out of the window
      When I think about you
      I don't feel low
      N'should I really chase so hard
      The truth of sport plays rings around you
      Going for the one
      Going for the one
      Going for to listen in time
      taken so high
      to touch to move
      listen to life
      Touching touch time
      travel twilight
      taken so high
      taking your time
      turn on to love
      turnstile to one
      tender timing
      rocking rolling
      listen in time
      taken so high
      to touch to move
      listen to life
      touching touchtime
      travel twilight
      taken so high
      taking your time
      turn on to love
      turnstile to one
      tender timing
      rocking rolling
      turn on to love
      turnstile to one
      tender timing
      rocking rolling

      Moments decide
      Moments delight
      Moments in flight
      Talk about sending love

    3. Time And A Word

      In the morning when you rise,
      Do you open up your eyes, see what I see?
      Do you see the same things ev'ry day?

      Do you think of a way to start the day
      Getting things in proportion?
      Spread the news and help the world go 'round.

      Have you heard of a time that will help us get it together again?
      Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
      Well, the time is near the word you'll hear
      When you get things in perspective.
      Spread the news and help the word go round.

      There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
      It's right for me, and the time is now.
      There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
      It's right for me, and the word is love.

      Have you heard of a time that will help get it together again?
      Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
      Well, the time is near and the word you'll hear
      When you get things in perspective.
      Spread the news and help the word go round.

      There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
      It's right for me, and the time is now.
      There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
      It's right for me, and the word is love.
      There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
      It's right for me, and the time is now.
      There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
      It's right for me, and the word is love.

    4. Close To The Edge

      a. The Solid Time Of Change

        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,
        Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour.
        And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry 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 edge, 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 to call the color 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 too 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.

      b. Total Mass Retain

        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 license, 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, round by the river.

        Sudden problems 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 edge, round by the corner.
        Close to the end, down by a river.
        Seasons will pass you by.
        I get up, I get down.

      c. I Get Up, I Get Down

        In her white lace
        You can 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 million 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.

      d. Seasons Of Man

        The time between the notes relates the color to the scenes.
        A constant vogue of triumphs dislocate man, it seems.
        And space between the focus shape ascend knowledge of love.
        As song and chance develop time, lost social temp'rance rules above.
        Ah, ah.

        Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arm to space,
        He turned around and pointed, revealing all the human race.
        I shook my 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 river.
        Down at the end, round by the corner.
        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.
        I get up.

    5. Turn Of The Century

      Realising a form out of stone
      Set hands moving
      Roan shaped his heart
      Thru his working hands
      Work to mould his passion into clay
      Like the sun

      In his room, his lady
      She would dance and sing so completely
      So be still, he now cries
      I have time, oh let clay transform thee so

      In the deep cold of night
      Winter calls, he cries, don't deny me
      For his lady, deep her illness
      Time has caught her
      And will for all reasons take her

      In the still light of dawn, she dies
      Helpless hands soul revealing

      Like leaves we touch, we learn
      We once knew the story
      As Winter calls he will starve
      All but to see the stone be life

      Now Roan no more tears
      Set to work his strength
      So transformed him
      Realising a form out of stone, his work
      So absorbed him
      Could she hear him
      Could she see him
      All aglow was his room dazed in this light
      He would touch her
      He would hold her
      Laughing as they danced
      Highest colours touching others

      Did her eyes at the turn of the century
      Tell me plainly
      When we meet, how we'll love, oh let life so transform me

      Like leaves we touched, we danced
      We once knew the story
      As autumn called and we both
      Remembered all those many years ago
      I'm sure we know

      Was the sign with a touch
      As I kiss your fingers
      We walk hands in the sun
      Memories when we're young
      Love lingers so.

      Was it sun thru the haze
      That made all your looks
      As warm as moonlight
      As a pearl deep your eyes
      Tears have flown away
      All the same light

      Did her eyes at the turn of the century
      Tell me plainly
      When we meet how we'll look
      As we smile time will leave me clearly

      Like leaves we touch, we see
      We will know the story
      As Autumn calls we'll both remember
      All those many years ago

    6. And You And I

      a. Cord Of Life

        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

        Turn round tailor, assaulting

        Never know their fruitless worth;

        all the mornings of the interest shown,
        presenting one another to the cord,

        cords are broken,

        All left dying, rediscovered
        Of the door that turned round,

        locked inside the mother earth.

        To close the cover, all the
        interest shown,

        They won't hide, hold, they won't tell you,

        To turn one another, to the
        sign at the time float your climb.

        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.

      b. Eclipse

        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 side of seeds of life with you.

      c. The Preacher The Teacher


        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.
        Ooh, ooh.

        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.

      d. Apocalypse

        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 called over valleys of endless seas.


    Disc 2

    ( Sudio Tracks )

    8. Mind Drive

      Don't forget to seek out the world that you want to stake out
      Actions speak much louder than words
      And you get to realize
      Just as long as you have control, holding the fire
      Just as long as you keep control, this point of your desire
      Wait as it will all come to you
      Feel it as a mutual response
      You get the heaven you like
      You get the heaven
      You get the heaven you need
      You get to heaven now
      Just as long as you bring the power from the inside
      Just as long as you hold the key from the inside
      Ascend and create
      Ascend and create
      Ascension

      They will bring you rain
      They will move the sky
      They will give you light
      It will live you long
      Thru' the eyes of child
      Through the song of songs
      It will bring the moon
      It will transfer you
      Whole, pushing for the time to call
      Dancing on the moon, giving it out

      In the night of nights
      It will shine for you
      With the wings of flight
      They will make it thru'
      Through the eyes of child and the test of song
      It will comfort you
      It will make you feel
      Whole, looking for the chance to call
      Making your world, independently
      Whole, watching for the place to run
      Dancing, dancing, move

      We will make it right
      We will dance for you
      On this night of nights
      They will make it thru'
      Through the eyes of child and the wish you are
      As the thought that comes from a distant star
      Whatever thought you have
      Can become a new dream
      For the perfect stance
      Take you there and back again
      And you believe you are
      Independently, Whole
      Waiting for the signs, Whole
      Reaching for the foresight shown
      Whole, dancing for the moon, dancing for the light
      Whole, pushing for the mind drive, drive
      Dancing for the Earth, dancing for the light
      Whole
      Dancing for the light

      They will bring the rain
      They will make it right
      It will transfer you, each and every night
      With their wings of hope, they will cover you
      They will make it right, they will shine for you
      With their golden wings, close around your soul
      It will count for you, it will make you whole
      Thru' the eyes of child, and the song of songs
      It will make you move, it will transfer you

      And so it comes to this now
      When you walk into the bliss that
      Holds down the fire
      As pleasure will devine
      So close so let your heart enter
      So come and let your heart enter this
      So close and let yourself lose control
      Heaven help the love that you send
      Heaven has the love you send, free

      Whole, watching for the time to call
      Dancing in the light, making it right
      Dancing, dancing, whole
      Waiting for the signs, whole
      Reaching for the sight to show
      Whole, independently, whole
      Pushing for the mind drive, drive
      Dancing on the Earth, dancing in the light

      They will bring the rain, they will shine the light
      Understanding this, it can come tonight
      For the love of love and the answers to
      It begins with me, it begins with you
      Whole, pushing for the time to call
      Looking for the sign, making it right
      Dancing, dancing, whole
      Waiting for the time to call
      Dancing in the harmless sun
      Entering the mind drive

      Don't forget to seek out the world that you want to stake out
      Actions speak much louder than words
      And you get to realise
      Just as long as you have control, holding the fire
      Just as long as you get to keep, this point of your desire
      Wait as it will come to you
      Feel it as a mutual response
      You get the heaven you like
      You get to heaven
      You get the heaven you need
      You get to heaven now

    9. Footprints

      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the glory of the world
      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the glory of the world

      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the glory of the world
      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the glory of the world

      Looking for the mystery in the woman
      Dancing with the teacher in the circle
      Watching for the reasons we are going
      Getting ready for the big bang
      Everybody looking for that great connection
      Somebody help me find that universal dream
      Everybody watching, is something happening
      See what I mean

      Looking for the real man
      Looking for the teacher
      Dancing with the circle
      Looking for the real world
      Everybody knows where we're going to
      Don't forget to leave good footprints behind
      Never let the grass grow over your soul
      Only time will tell, leave good footprints behind

      I have seen the way
      The way is clear to save your love
      High upon the sky
      The forces come to break you free

      Forgiving is what you have
      Forgiving is what you see
      Forgiving is what you know
      Forgiving is all you are
      I have seen the way
      The way is clear beyond your soul

      I have seen the way
      The way is clear to save your love
      High upon the sky
      The forces come to break you free
      Forgiving is what you have
      Forgiving is what you see
      They say the soul has so many lifetimes
      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the glory of the world

      Only when you stop to listen
      Only when you stop to see
      Forgiving is what you have
      Forgiving is what you see
      Forgiving is what you know
      Forgiving is all you are
      I have seen the way
      The way is clear to save your soul
      I have seen the way
      The way is clear beyond you soul
      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the glory of the world
      My eyes see the coming revolution
      My eyes see the glory of the world

      Don't forget to leave good footprints behind
      Don't forget to leave good footprints behind

    10. Bring Me The Power

      This state in the matrix of the real world thinking
      This way is meant to surface through the 'net
      This train is set to mystify
      This day in the history of the future
      This train is set to justify
      Whether you're ready or not
      This day is of the meeting now

      If they don't give us the keys how are we supposed to get ready?
      If they don't give us the keys how are we to survive?
      Cover me up and bring me to the power
      Cover me up and bring me to the power
      Cover me up and bring me to the power

      All I know is all I want to give you

      Cover me up get closer to the fire
      Cover me up get closer to the power
      Cover me up get closer to the power
      Cover me up get closer now
      Cover me up get closer to the power

      God talk
      God talk, now, talk
      God talk
      Give a little-ation
      God talk, revelation
      God talk, revelation

      If they don't give 'em the keys
      If we don't give 'em the keys
      How are they supposed to be ready
      If we don't give 'em the keys
      How are they to divine
      If we don't give 'em the keys
      How are they supposed to be ready
      If we don't give 'em the keys
      How are they to survive
      Cover me up and bring me to the power
      Cover me up and bring me revelation

      If we don't give 'em the keys
      How are they supposed to be ready
      If you don't give 'em the keys
      How are they to survive
      The power of love can open every heart in everyone
      Minute by minute ...........

    11. Children Of Light

      (i) Children Of Light

        Distant as the distant thunder
        Where equal rights will rent asunder
        Equal rights for equal people
        A disregard for loves equality
        Bringing back the signs to no mans land
        Where diamonds and gold in hand
        Will barter as the homeless burn
        Someday will it be our turn

        Why this consciousness, this desire, to expand the flame of revolution
        With your public hand of fire, persecution, blood letting and spinning pain

        Why this hungry media delivery
        Questions answers plus forgivers
        Billions of racial inequalities
        We all are one, all are sacred
        Be the birth of a nation
        Stop this aggrevation
        So uninspired as to question imagine humanity
        And lack of love for his cosmic guard

        Children of light don't be afraid
        Children of light haven't you heard
        Gone are the days in black and white
        Children of light don't be afraid

        Distant as the distant thunder
        Where equal rights will rent asunder
        Equal rights for equal people
        A disregard for loves equality
        Bringing back the signs to no mans land
        Where diamonds and gold in hand
        Will barter as the homeless burn
        Someday will it be our turn
        Someday will it be our turn
        Someday will it be our turn

        Children of light don't be afraid
        Children of light haven't you heard
        Gone are the days in black and white
        Children of light don't be afraid

      (ii) Lifeline

        ( Instrumental )

    12. Sign Language

      ( Instrumental )