YES
Keys To Ascension
(2 CD)
(1996)
Disc 1
(Live Tracks)
1. Siberian Khatru * 10'16
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe / Rick Wakeman)
©1972 TOPOGRAPHIC MUSIC, Ltd / RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.
2. Revealing Science Of God * 20'31
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe / Chris Squire / Rick Wakeman / Alan White)
©1973 TOPOGRAPHIC MUSIC, Ltd / RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.
3. America * 10'28
(Paul Simon)
©1968 Paul SIMON (BMI) / PATTERN MUSIC, Ltd.
4. Onward * Intro: Unity / Onward 5'40
(Chris Squire)
©1996 BASEDOWN Ltd. / ©1978 TOPOGRAPHIC MUSIC Ltd. / WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC, Ltd.
5. Awaken ** 18'29
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe)
©1977 TOPOGRAPHIC MUSIC, Ltd. / WARNER-CHAPPELL MUSIC, Ltd.
Disc 2
6. Roundabout * (live) 8'30
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe)
©1971 YESSONGS / TOPOGRAPHIC MUSIC, Ltd. / RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.
7. Starship Trooper ** (live): 13'08
(i) Life Seeker
(Jon Anderson)
(ii) Dissillusion
(Chris Squire)
(iii) Wurm
(Steve Howe)
©1971 TOPOGRAPHIC MUSIC, Ltd. / RONDOR MUSIC (London) Ltd.
(Studio Tracks)
8. Be The One: 9'53
(i) The One
(Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
(ii) Humankind
(Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
(iii) Skates
(Steve Howe)
©1996 CARLIN MUSIC PUBLISHING Ltd. / OPIO MUSIC PUBLISHING / BASEDOWN Ltd.
9. That, That Is: 19'15
(i) Togetherness
(Steve Howe)
(ii) Crossfire
(Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
(iii) The Giving Things
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe)
(iv) That Is
(Jon Anderson)
(v) All In All
(Jon Anderson / Alan White)
(vi) How Did Heaven Begin
(Jon Anderson / Steve Howe / Alan White)
(vii) Agree To Agree
(Jon Anderson / Chris Squire)
©1996 CARLIN MUSIC PUBLISHING Ltd. / OPIO MUSIC PUBLISHING / BASEDOWN Ltd.
Total Time: 55:24 + 50:46
Rick Wakeman - Keyboards
Jon Anderson - Guitar, Harp, Vocals
Steve Howe - Guitar, Steel Guitar, 12-String Electric Guitar, 12-String Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Chris Squire - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Alan White - Drums, Vocals
Impact Produced by YES
Co-Produced and Co-Engineered by Tom Fletcher
Live Tracks Mixed by Tom Fletcher *, Kevin Dickey and Bill Smith **
Studio Tracks Mixed by Billy Sherwood
Jon Brewer - Management
Zang Angelfire - Assistant Engineer
Paintings, Logos and Lettering by Roger Dean, ©Roger Dean 1996
Photographs by GOTTLIEB Bros. / YES MAGAZINE
1996 YES MAGAZINE
Packaging Design by Martyn Dean
Booklet Design by GOTTLIEB Bros. / YES MAGAZINE
Official Band Member Web Sites:
Jon Anderson:
http://www.nfte.org/Opioworld
Steve Howe:
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Chris Squire:
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Rick Wakeman:
http://www.RWCC.com
Alan White:
http.//www.nfte.org/Alan.White
Thanks To:
Brian Adams
Gunar Amundson and E-Mu: Synthesizers and Samplers
Candy Atcheson: Serious Music LTD
Argosy: CUSTOM CONSOLE FURNITURE
Audio Ecstasy: STUDIO MONITOR SYSTEM and "Real-World" AUDIO CHECK
Ernie Ball: Volume Pedals and Studio Cables
Jeff Cary and A.R.T.: Tube Pre-amps, Compressors,
Gates, Effects Processors
Young Chang and our comrades at Kurzweil: Baby
Grand Piano, Synthesizers and Samplers
Clair Brothers: Rehearsal and Performance PA systems
Kevin Currey, Greg Notley: Technical Assistants
The Drum Girouit: Percussion & Rhythm Gadgets
Tim Favro and Opcode: MIDI Patchbays and Software
Ron Garrett: Deep Technical Assistance
Buzz Goodin & Audio Technica: Studio & Live Microphones
Doug & Glenn Gottlieb / Yes Magazine
Greg at TASCAM: DA-88 Multitrack Recorders
John Hernandez and ROLAND: Reverb & Effects Processors
Graham Holmes
I.V.L. and DIGITECH: Harmony Processors
Phil Jones and PLATINUM AUDIO: Studio Monitor Speakers
KORG / MARSHALL: Synthesizers & Effects Processors
LUDWIG Drums
Michael Lyron and OBERHEIM: Synthesizers
The MUSIC FACTORY: Studio Equipment, Customs Cables, Blank Tape, Good Advice
Mark Napier at AUDIO FX
Greg Notley: Acoustic and Electrical Engineering
Rob Rossi
Dan Rutlidge
Thanks To our friends in SLO town, The GREGSTER, Elizabeth MacQueen,
Brick & Dotty, Stewart Sawney,
SCHUBERT SYSTEMS GROUP, Alex Scott,
Robin Kauffman
SUNFIRE Corp.: Studio Monitor Amplifiers
D.K SWEET and MACKIE DESIGNS Inc.: Mix and Recording Consoles and Automation
TECHNICS: Synthesizers
Dave Tinsley and our great friends at SONIC SOLUTIONS
MIX AUDIO MULTITRACK Editing / Recording System
ZILDJIAN Cymbals
Stan Diamond, Peter Button,
Tom Dean, David Locke, Jeremy Forsyth,
Rich Feldstein, Debra Boylan
NATURAL FLAVORS RESTAURANT, SLO
La CUESTA Inn, KIMBALL MOTORS, La BELLA Strings,
applied Acoustic System, NL
Special Love To the love of my life, Janeeee. Lots of love to my forever children,Debs, Damionsky and Jadeo. Love to Spooz, Lee, Britt and Peep. Thanks to all our friends in SLO Town.
Thanks To my superb team — Linda Benjamin and Debee Croft. Thanks to Linda Uvington, The Spiritual Family and Divine Mother. And, of course, love to Bear. To be able to make this album with my wonderful soul mates and continue to make music into the 21st Century is more than a dream come true.
- Jon Anderson
Thanks To RICKENBACKER Guitars, GUITAR FACTORY Guitars, CARVIN Guitars & Recording Equipment, ROTOSOUND Strings and everyone at CAF ... ROMA and UPTOWN EXPRESSO.
- Chris Squire
For the best twenty-five years, my Love To Jan and to Dylan, Virgil, Georgia and Stephanie.
- Steve Howe
Musical inspiration (as always) from Nina, Jemma, Oscar, Oliver, Adam and Benjamin. Electronic inspiration from Kurzweil, Korg, Technics, Octava and Voice Crystal. Divine inspiration (as always) from above.
- Rick Wakeman
All the Love in the world to my family, Gigi White, Jesse and Cassi. Thanks to Ludwig Drams, Zildjian Cymbals, Sounds Amazing, Reek Havoc, Jim Robison, Engineered Percussion, Drum Circuit, La Cuesta Inn.
- Alan White
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Recorded at The FREMONT THEATRE, San LUIS Obispo, California on 4-6 March 1996
Studio Tracks Recorded fall & spring 1995/6 at YESWORLD STUDIO, San Luis Obispo
Disc 1
1. Siberian Khatru
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 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.
2. Revealing Science Of God
Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole.
Dawn of thought transfered through moments of days undersearching earth
Revealing corridors of time provoking memories, disjointed but with purpose,
Craving penetrations offer links with the self instructors sharp
And tender love as we took to the air, a picture of distance.
Dawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
Expression, as only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
Late into corners, and we danced from the ocean.
Dawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
Won't to follow, only tunes of a different age.
As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.
Talk to the sunlight caller
Soft summer mover distance mine.
Called out a tune but I never saw the face
Heard but not replaced
I ventured to talk, but I never lost my place
Cast out a spell rendered for the light of day
Lost in lights array
I ventured to see, as the sound began to play
What happened to this song we once knew so well
Signed promise for moments caught within the spell
I must have waited all my life for this
Moment moment
The future poised with the splendour just begun
The light we were as one
And crowded through the curtains of liquid into sun
And for a moment when our world had filled the skies
Magic turned our eyes
To feast on the treasure set for our strange device
What happened to wonders we once knew so well
Did we forget what happened surely we can tell
We must have waited all our lives for this
Moment moment moment
Starlight, movement, reasons
Release forward
Tallest rainbow
Sun shower seasons
Life flower reasons
They move fast, they tell me,
But I just can't believe that I can feel it
There's someone to tell you,
Amid the challenge we look around in unison with you
Getting over overhanging trees
Let them rape the forest
Thoughts would send our fusion
Clearly to be home
Getting over wars we do not mean
Or so it seems so clearly
Sheltered with our passion
Clearly to be home
They move fast, they tell me,
But I just can't believe they really mean to
There's someone, to tell you,
And I just can't believe our song will leave you
Skyline teacher
Warland seeker
Send out poison
Cast iron leader
And through the rhythm of moving slowly
Sent through the rhythm work out the story
Move over glory to sons of old fighters past.
Young christians see it from the beginning
Old people feel it, that's what they're saying.
Move over glory to sons of old fighters past.
They move fast, they tell me,
But I just can't believe they really mean to.
There's someone, to tell you
A course towards a universal season.
Getting over overhanging trees
Let them rape the forest
They might stand and leave them
Clearly to be home
Getting over wars we do not mean
We charm the movement suffers
Call out all our memories
Clearly to be home
We've moved fast
We need love
A part we offer is our only freedom
What happened to this song we once knew so well
Signed promise for moments caught within the spell
We must have waited all our lives for this
Moment moment
Past present movers moments we'll process the future, but only through him we know, send flowered rainbows
Apiece apart chased flowers of the dark and lights of songs to follow and show all we feel for and know of
Cast round
You seekers of the truth accepting that reason will relive and breath and hope and chase and love
For you and you and you.
3. America
Let us be lovers
We'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes
And Mrs. Wagner's pies
And walked off to look for America
"Kathy" I said
As we boarded a Greyhound to Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've come to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the Gabardine suit
Was a spy
I said "Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera"
"Kathy, I'm lost" I said
Though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
4. Onward Intro : Unity
Contained in everything I do
There's a love, I feel for you
Proclaimed in everything I write
You're the light
Burning, brightly
Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life
Displayed in all the things I see
There's a love you show to me
Portrayed in all the things you say
You're the day
Leading the way
Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life
Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life
5. Awaken
High Vibration go on
To the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
Past a mortal as me
Where can I be
Wish the sun to stand still
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past all mortal as we
Here we can be
We can be here
Be here now
Here we can be
AWAKEN SUNS HIGH STREAMS THRU AWAKEN GENTLE STRONG DREAMS REIGN HERE
GENTLE MASS .)(. MASS TOUCH STAR, SONG, AGE, LESS TOUCHING
Workings of man
Set to ply out historical life
Reregaining the flower of the fruit of his tree
All awakening
All restoring you
Workings of man
Crying out from the fire set aflame
By his blindness to see that the warmth of his being
Is promised for his seeing his reaching so clearly
Workings of man
Driven far from the path
Rereleased in inhibitions
So that all is left for you
all is left for you
all this left for you NOW...
Master of Images
Songs cast a light on you
Hark thru dark ties
That tunnel us out of sane existence
In challenge as direct
As eyes see young stars assemble
Master of Light
All pure chance
As exists cross divided
In all encircling mode
Oh closely guided plan
Awaken in our heart
Master of Soul
Set to touch
All impenetrable youth
Ask away
That thought be contact
With all that's clear
Be honest with yourself
There's no doubt no doubt
Master of Time
Setting sail
Over all our lands
And as we look
Forever closer
Shall we now bid
Farewell farewell...
High Vibration go on
To the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
Past a mortal as me
Where can I be
Wish the sun to stand still
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past all mortal as we
Here we can be
We can be here
Like the time I ran away
And turned around
And you were standing close to me
Like the time I ran away
And turned around
And you were standing close to me
Disc 2
6. Roundabout ( live )
I ll be the round about
the words will make you out n out
you change the day your way
call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley
The music dance and sing
they make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
call it morning driving thru 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
ten true summers we ll be there and laughing too
twenty four before my love you ll see I ll be there with you
I will remember you
your silhouette will charge the view
of distance atmosphere
call it morning driving thru the sound and even in the valley
Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching down on the land
catching the swirling wind the sailor sees the rim of the land
the eagles 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 millions years
7. Starship Trooper
( live )
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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 light.
Hide the moment from my eager eye.
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,
The setting up of other roads, to travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughter that,
Knew the knowledge of the land, that 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.
(ii) Dissillusion
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 facts there shown before you.
Take what I say in a diff'rent way and it's easy to say
that this is all confusion.
As I see a new day in me, I can also show it you and you may follow.
Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
The setting up of other roads, to travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughter that,
Knew the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.
(iii) Wurm
- Studio Tracks -
8. Be The One
(i) The One
Never underestimate the loving
How we intertwine our very soul
How we fill each other's spaces to lose control
When you're talking, be the children
Who stand on solid ground
Never underestimate the giving that will bring you around
I'll be there, to bring you this love in the morning
I'll be there, to bring you the stars at night
I'll be there, just waiting to hear you singing
Never underestimate a giver
The gift of love will surely be
When you're asking for the secrets to set you free
When you're talking to the friendship
That love of higher self
This gift of love is the answer to all your doubts
Be the one, giving in to love
Never let the good in life desert you
Be the one, giving in to love
Never let the fools destroy your dreams
Be the one, giving in to love
I can dream myself every minute
So how did we become, masters of limitation?
I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there
To make it right for you
Giving in, giving in to love
It's the balance of this everyday feeling
Giving in, giving in to love
Without love our dreams become illusion
Giving in, giving in to love
I can hear you singing every minute
So you can sing the song, and see the truth
(ii) Humankind
So we worked all around amidst the glory of life
Any fire of the flame would be made
Should the famine of change to diguise everyone
Who cannot see the soul of truth ready made
But all because we're changing now
As the prophets of doom speak their mind
It's a long, long way from where the system began
It's a long, long way humankind
So we dance down on nature as we try to repeat
All our efforts as one sent today
Taking back instead of giving, taking back more or less
Taking back a sense of being afraid
So all this necessary changes now, as the will to help all man
And the children of the crucified will better off, better dead
But all this senseless killing, and all these chains and lies
I want to know right now, I want to know right now
I want to know where we come from
For it's a long, long way from where the system began
It's a long, long way humankind
it's a long, long way from where the system began
it's a long, long way humankind, yeah
Giving in, giving in to love
I can see and feel the truth every minute
Giving in, giving in to love
Be the one to rescue you, rescue you
Giving in, giving in to the right love
There's no way that you can live without it
So we can become masters of our invention
(iii) Skates
Don't stand still
Repeat chorus
Never underestimate the power
Never underestimate the power
9. That, That Is
(i) Togetherness
(ii) Crossfire
Julie's sick and tired of her job n' all the reasons lately
She took it out on God and laid her soul to hell and let the baby die
Julie's child was born without a need or a reason for being
She took it as a message from a real and a distant life
Shirley gets to help her with the child though she's strung out on crack time
Shirley never knew what it was to be held in real love
Together getting high to get to mess up their night
Anything to get up so they're losing their mind
Just to get high, breaking out from this life, gotta get them a drug to get higher
Julie gets to walking out and drags the child, says "come on"
How we'll walk in the dark of the morning
Cars screaming round the corner, drugged to heaven, guns are loaded, locked in vengeance
Who shoots the child?
Watching in the ghetto is the spine and the cruel of the gang life
Sign language of the get go you get in the gang life
Fear the only law, fear is all we hear about,
Feed us in the raw, fear is all we fear about
Listen, get up, quickly get up, get up
It's the answer to punishment given you
Don't give us reasons,
Caught in the crossfire dying
God give us reasons,
Don't give a reason, God give a reason
Why lay dead a child's life ?
(iii) The Giving Things
That talk is just a worry and a worry in a man
That life is just a worrying and getting in a mess
That deal is just awakening his spirit to be giving him
The pleasure of the giving things within
This day is of a meeting of the manner to be borne
And like a ship you come safely to the shore of love eternal
(iv) That Is
That talk is just a worry and a worry in a man
That life is just a worrying and getting in a mess
That deal is just awakening his spirit to be giving him
The pleasure of the giving things within
That word is in it, that talk is in it
This day is of a meeting of the manner to be borne
And like a ship you come safely to the shore of love eternal
That beat is of the wanting of the where you're going
That street talk is the basis of the push and shove
They never told you that you have the right
The spirit of the angel, angels sing "Shaava, shava shava-Shaava"
They be waiting for you, they be asking for you
We depending on you, we depending on your healing of the structure centre
Until you reach and touch your own redemption
They never give you a reason, they never give you a reason
They never give you a, give you a, give you a, give you a reason
(v) All In All
All in all the wisdom call, you shall be young, you shall be free
Watching for the signals that some easily
Take it as a point of love, a reference place to where you are
Every step a step to set you free
All for the sake and the calling of light
Ask as you give, as you measure in time
All in all this will to give, this sacrament, this need to live
Take it a step to bring love easily
All in all the wisdom call, you shall be young, you shall be free
Waiting for the waiting to be free
Talk is the easy send, everyone heard
Ask as you seek the clear, ask and you can
This play is of a myriad of conscience sitting
This day is of a special way of love relating
This sight is in it, this way is in it, the dream is of the positive to make you
Wonder
How did heaven begin?
This time is in it, this thought is in it, this light is in it,
When you see, you get it
All in all the wisdom call, you shall be young, you shall be free
Take it as it comes so easily
We'll be there beside the sign, this wherewithal, this will to be,
Bringing all the love that's meant to be
All in all we shall be young, we shall be free, we shall be there
All in all this time is meant to be
(vi) How Did Heaven Begin
These days are just a worry to the children of the world
These days are just a worry to the children of the world
How did heaven begin ?
How did heaven begin ?
(vii) Agree To Agree
Don't imagine any way, so any fool can take away the drugs and the pressure
Asking for the level where a world divides its answers
To the gang lords of evil life, (they) can't show you how
Look upon this life as just a picture you are painting
There is a reason for this being
Look upon this place as just a part of all that is
It is a spiritual part of being
Live within the power, you can be the strength it is
Walk among the living, you can be the strength it is
To give, to live, this hope, comes through,
It takes the trust to agree this agreement
Live for the breaking free
Live for the breaking freedom
Just let it come through come through
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