[86] 19. Yes - Machine Messiah

[1986] 19. Yes - Machine Messiah

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Yes - Drama ('80, 11th)

1. Machine Messiah [10:27]
2. White Car [1:21]
3. Does It Really Happen? [6:34]
4. Into the Lens [8:31]
5. Run Through the Light [4:39]
6. Tempus Fugit [5:14]

Trevor Horn - Vocals & bass on 5
Chris Squire - Bass, vocals, and piano on 5
Geoff Downes - Keyboards
Alan White - Drums
Steve Howe - Guitars

* It is unique for being the only Yes album release without vocalist Jon Anderson.

1. Machine Messiah

Part I
Run down a street
Where the glass shows
That summer has gone
Age, in the doorways
Resenting the pace of the dawn.
All of them standing in line
All of them waiting for time.
From time, the great healer,
The machine-Messiah
Is born.

Cables that carry the life
To the cities we build
Threads that link diamonds of light
To the satanic mills
Ah, to see in every way
That we feel it every
Day, and know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons
And alter our stance.

Part II
Friends make their way into systems of chance
(reply- friends make their way of escape into systems of chance)
Escape to freedom I need to be there
Waiting and watching, the tables are turning
I'm waiting and watching
I need to be there.

I care to see them walk away
And, to be there when they say
They will return.

Machine, Messiah
The mindless
Search for a higher
Controller
Take me, to the fire
And hold me
Show me the strength of your
Singular eye.

Part III
History dictating symptoms of ruling romance
Claws at the shores of the water upon which we dance
All of us standing in line
All of us waiting for time
To feel it, all the way
And to be there when they
Say they know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons
And alter our stance.

Machine, machine Messiah.
Take me into the fire

Hold me, machine Messiah
And show me
The strength of your singular eye.

Yes - In the Present: Live from Lyon ('11, Live)

Disc 1

1. Siberian Khatru [10:39]

2. I've Seen All Good People [7:17]

a) Your Move

b) All Good People

3. Tempus Fugit [6:05]

4. Onward [4:38]

5. Astral Traveller [8:49]

6. Yours Is No Disgrace [13:23]

7. And You and I [11:27]

I. Cord of Life

II. Eclipse

III. The Preacher, the Teacher

IV. Apocalypse

8. Corkscrew (Steve Howe acoustic solo) [3:49]

9. Second Initial (Steve Howe guitar solo) [3:19]

Disc 2

1. Owner of a Lonely Heart [6:05]

2. South Side of the Sky [10:44]

3. Machine Messiah [11:41]

4. Heart of the Sunrise [11:43]

5. Roundabout [9:35]

6. Starship Trooper [13:08]

a) Life Seeker

b) Disillusion

c) Würm

Benoît David - lead vocals, acoustic guitars, percussions

Steve Howe - guitars, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals

Chris Squire - bass, backing vocals

Oliver Wakeman - keyboards

Alan White - drums

recorded live on 1st December 2009 at the Bourse du Travail, Lyon, France.

Yes - Topographic Drama: Live Across America ('17, Live)

Disc 1

1. Machine Messiah [11:17]

2. White Car [1:25]

3. Does It Really Happen? [7:22]

4. Into the Lens [9:11]

5. Run Through the Light [5:08]

6. Tempus Fugit [5:58]

7. And You and I [11:24]

I. Cord of Life

II. Eclipse

III. The Preacher, the Teacher

IV. Apocalypse

8. Heart of the Sunrise [12:14]

Disc 2

1. The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) [21:57]

2. Leaves of Green [6:04]

3. Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil) [24:39]

4. Roundabout [8:35]

5. Starship Trooper [11:45]

a) Life Seeker

b) Disillusion

c) Würm

Jon Davison - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion

Steve Howe - guitars, backing vocals

Billy Sherwood - bass guitar, backing vocals, harmonica

Geoff Downes - keyboards

Alan White - drums, percussion

with

Jay Schellen - additional drums, percussion

Roger Dean - cover painting, cover design, logos

recorded in February 2017 in several locations across the United States during their 2016–2017 World Tour