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I - When are Wars Won? (Lyrics: Brian David Hayhurst, Claire Hamill)
Life was ever thus, when are wars won? It’s over now, or is it?
Battlefields are strewn with remains of the carnage. How did it happen?
When are wars won?
Why when wiser, calmer voices counseled caution
Did we proceed to the destruction
That lays waste to our collective, universal soul?
History tells its tale with ghastly precision
We exorcise all that is hidden
And prepare ourselves for a new era
Another world of disorder
When our wars won?
Let’s all pretend nothing is wrong
Everything works for the good in the end, let’s all pretend
Don’t look down, or you may see some poor sucker drown
Don’t you move your head, just you keep marching straight ahead
To the Victor goes the spoils, how wrong that can be
Who wins when treasures are stolen, tarnished by deceit?
Death and suffering, we didn’t do ourselves well yesterday
As armour clanged against armour
Angers, entrails left to rise from the desert floor
Crimson and sodden, from Khartoum to Culloden
Life was ever thus, when are wars won?
When are wars won?
II - Surely all I Need (Lyrics: J.S.Hamill)
I'll point my arrow to the sky, let it go and watch it fly
Wondering where it will land and, if I'll ever find it
Where I could throw my spear of truth, the one I carved out in my youth
Just like the one I gave to you, I know just where to find it
If life can find, somewhere, a place for me
On solid ground, somewhere to place my feet
Where gentle breezes touch and acknowledge me
Then that's surely all I need, that's surely all I need.
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Lyrics: J.C. Hamill, M. Hunt
Music: J.C. Hamill, M. Hunt
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Five Senses
04:34
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How can we presume to know
the Actual nature of the Universe?
A narrow window that we use to see
Relativity and space time
Fit into the limit of our being
Childlike
Moon Flight
Deep Sea
Feel Free
Starlight
In Sight
Can't See
Eternity
Universe, Universe, Universe
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Heaven's Core
06:29
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See the power in the light (gravity will fall away)
See the reflection of the night (a sense of freedom for you to play)
Soon the day will brighten all (higher higher)
Stop your stumble, stop your fall (higher higher, higher higher)
Keep your eyes closed shut tight
It's still well into the middle of the night
Time to dream of what could be, real!
Create a dance of light, burning torches blaze
Let your thoughts take you where (just as you start to think that you are free)
When awake you would be scared (rays of of morning light command you to be)
Flying over all the trees (higher, higher)
The woods, the hills, all the seas (higher, higher)
Like an eagle, stoic as one should be
See the power in the light (the day has stolen your blissful tune)
See the reflection of the night (and placed you back on earth far too soon)
Soon the day will brighten all (higher higher, higher, higher)
Stop your stumble, stop your fall (higher higher, higher higher)
Time to dream, time to dream, time to dream of what could could be
Time to dream, time to dream, what could be real?
Time to wander to heaven's core, time to see what's at the door
Time to wander to heaven's core
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Open Space
02:31
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Time to dream and lose ourselves
Floating gently on a silvery tide
Entering worlds of peace and hope
Reaching a beauty deep inside
If Tempest comes, they say it will (Sensing)
We can go deeper then we ever knew (without waking)
A sacred place of serenity (knowing)
Waits there for you (without knowing)
(Noble, no seeking, life in a dream)
Now we are sunlight, now we are sunlight, now we are sunlight........
Time to dream, time to dream, time to dream of what could could be
Time to dream, time to dream, what could be real?
Time to wander to heaven's core
Time to dream, time to dream
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Over the hill and down to the sea
Crystal Caverns are calling to me
Echoing replies that shout full of fear
And crash like an avalanche into our ears
Crash like an avalanche into our ears
People stand watching down by the shore
Bathed in sea mist they can hear waves roar
As tyrannical traders capture their thoughts
They thought they had peace but it all came to naught
They thought they had peace but it all came to naught
Old worlds and kingdoms carved in rock of rhyme
Sending a warning to watch for changing times
And falsehoods from people with nothing to say
So trust to your instincts before it’s too late in the day
Before it’s too late in the day
Into the harbour and drawing together
Just like the souls of older mariners facing bad weather
We are prevailing against the cruel tide of hate
But they can’t hide, the truth inside
And we know why
Thrown about like used up empty sacks
Just flotsam caught in a web by hacks
All at the mercy of some cynical prose
And where it leads to nobody knows
Where it all needs leads to nobody knows, Nothing
Sleep the sleep of the innocent or wake the beast inside
Crouch and creep like the victimized
Or stand up straight and look evil in the eye
Long, the journey has been so long
And weary are the steps we take
How much more can one man bear before his spirit breaks?
But when the heavens open and the sun pours down its heat
Our hearts are lifted skywards
And at last we feel no defeat
We’ve found the solace that we seek, the journey is complete
I can hear the wind of change blowing at my windowpane
Blow, blow, blow the man down
Old worlds and kingdoms keepers all safe
From those who would like to see them replaced
With people easy to manipulate
So trust in your instincts before it’s too late
Before it’s too late in the day.
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Fragile are the original European YES tribute project and have toured the UK & Europe in various line-ups for the past 20
years. This included live dates/tours with Steve Howe in 2005,6 & 7 and appearances with Alan White & Rick Wakemen.
Following 20 years of performing Yes music, the band are no longer performing LIVE but now write/record original Yes inspired music.
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