Yes - South Side Of The Sky Lyrics

Saw them in Nashville in 1972. 3 rows from the stage directly in front of Steve Howe, Waiting to see Bruford play but it was Alan White 😏. Incredible performance none the less!

The river can disreguard the cost !

Completeness PERSONIFIED...Percussionist both , Lead Guitarist, Lead Bass and Lead keyboardist all totally intertwined and integrated, note-for-note...truly and amazingingly hyphenated. I so admire such artistic talent. NO matter the venue. Art is art...NO matter the form of it! Anyone agreed?

When you listen to this whilst cycling on a cold day with the wind streaking past you, puddles splashing around you, and you feel as though your fingers are gonna fall off.
It's worth it.
One of the best tracks from Fragile.

this is a great shroom song, just throwing that out there

Magnificent

Beautiful.

A true masterpiece.

the perfect song for a steel ball run ed

Jon Anderson describe this song as being in the Himalayas!! Very very high! Cold cold cold!

this is one scary tune....porch music on halloween stuff...god bless yes

i love this album...

Music has gone 27,000 light years BACKWARDS since the early 1970's.

The odd counts and timing of the drums is such a masterpiece. Holds the song together in a fusion of jazz, rock, and maybe something even alien. First caught my ear as a young kid in 70s... have never heard anything like it since and never get tired of hearing it

Epic YES!!!

We all are eternal! Never was there a time when the soul did not exist nor will be there a time when it does not! At some point just like a child thinks there's something better from home! The soul did the same! At that point you enter into the material world! Until you become pure in heart! Free from all material desires! They don't have materialism the spiritual sky

John says move forward was my Sherpas only cry! Yes your Sherpa is your best friend! Especially if you're looking for great Yogi spiritualist in the Himalayas!

He didn't manifest fish in the desert! He brought forth bread! This world is filled with a bunch of Looney tunes! You can't grasp higher consciousness! You're not your body! Your spirit the spirit is antimatter! I'm a scientist! Of bhakti yoga!

And if you're dumb you can't purify your heart! You have to be pure in heart to enter the kingdom of God! Jesus never ate meat! Are you kidding me! A man with that much compassion? Would never kill anyting!

Animals do not get a karmic reaction from killing other animals because they have no free will! We have free will! For every action there's a reaction! Pretty simple s***! If you eat animals you're in the mode of ignorance! Just means you're a dumb s***!

If you kill and eat animals you eat and consume the violence they had to go through! You eat the violent energy of slaughter!

And don't kill the whale!!!!!!!!

Yes is a band of higher consciousness! Don't eat animals! Don't kill babies in the womb! Life begins at conception! Don't pollute and loot the Earth!

I think this song is about being very high in the Himalayan mountains! With cold in the way!

The cold being Pagan Min (Farcry 4 joke)

An expiration date is a deep condition to this world

One of the best!!🤟👍

Try sayin' ''Okay boomer'' to _this!_ One thing they got _RIGHT_ was Music!!! Especially the ''prog'' genre! Best artistic gift to the 20th century lMO!! l first heard Prog in 1980 at 14, and it _BLEW MY MIND_ then ...as it _STILL DOES!_ Died, n gone to heaven music!

I feel like this song had to be the original inspiration for Perry Farrell for Jane's Addiction

Bass heavy remaster, really clear cutting through, nice.

The other day I was telling my friends about yes and they said

“Is that really the name of the band”

And I was like

“yes”

And you said yes

alan weissaltz yeah

do you believe?jesus is lord?yes

jack webb yeah

There is a live version which is awesome

Finally getting into Yes for the first time, being a big Crimson fan. I see what all the hoopla on them was all about. I haven't even finished listening though this cut, but this song is a masterpiece. This is the stuff I aspire to as a budding guitar player.

This song makes going for a walk feel ten times more epic.

The piano sounds like it might be flatter at 5:16 than at 3:44

Yes Fragile begins with lightning and ends with thunder! My first Yes album when I was 12 in 1975, and still my favorite Yes album today! Thanks for the post!

..........when's Wierd Al gonna spoof this song?







 (sorry, that was the most random thing I could think to say)

Only found them from the old to be continued meme but they are a great band.

LUCKY 7 Chris Squire!!!!!!!!!!!! Google it! Unbelievable

Chris Squire Miss Your Magic!!!!

LaLaL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bhakti Yoga!

about the cold in the mountains of india!

When I was 10 my favorite bands were Yes Genesis Pink Floyd Gentle Giant and Rush .... I'm 56 and love them more now!!! : )

So much neat stuff happening just in this one song. The remaster makes it crystal clear. Listen through a good pair of headphones. There is not a lot of chance that music like this will ever be again created in our social media age. People's foci are just too scattered. ADD society. I am sure that this will be one of the musical peaks for all eternity to be well remembered hundreds of years from now ... if we don't have another dark ages.

If you want playlists, come to my channel, i have a lot of playlists from a lot of bands

259 people have no taste in masterful musicianship, song writing and probably kicked their dog today.

;-)) !<3

Every other Yes song comments section: ah yes such great music :)
Roundabout comments section: wHen yOur aDoPTEd brOthEr kiLLs yoUR dOg and KisSes yOUr gIrl aNd pOISonS youR fAThEr amiright

I know I'm being a stickler but its not Yes Fragile. Its Fragile Yes. Just sayin'.

For me, It's like Yes-Metal, ...HEAVY!! 🔥🤘😎🤘🔥

l'm going to repeat the TOP comment! ''One of the best songs they ever did!'' ~ neile2001

I've never seen anyone note that the section from 3:18 to 5:20 is the first time that Squire sang "lead" with Yes. I'm assuming he wrote that section. There are no lyrics, but that's him out front. I don't think you really hear him out front again like that until 90125 (or maybe Drama). Bruford is his usual extraordinary self in this section, also. There was no other bass-drums duo like those two, IMO.

THIS SONG ROCKS!!!!!!

Roger Dean actually understood the value of perspective when drawing the planet picture for this album,,what a real planet that wasn't a flat plane like the one we live on would look like.

Shut the FUCK up.

thanks for the heads up

And now we live in times that *poof* all this great music is gone. Not even playing it on satellite radio.

Bro, fuck the radio. You listened to it 2 days ago. Music like this never really fades, even if just one person is listening to it.

Chris Squire best base player ever. Love McCartney, Geddy etc. tho

Agree, bro!

"So cold that we cried …" This song and "Starship Trooper" are my favorites.

Amazing songs!🙌

This album was killer. This album was surrealist with a raw edge. This album was bright and dark at the same time in a way that Yes never duplicated. This is like Tolkien without the sentimental fairy B.S., The soundscapes on this album are raw, rough and sometimes desolate...abbreviated by the inclusion of action, drama, humor and melodic invention. Eddie Offord did what needed to be done with this music. Truly a work of art. Not even the Beatles pulled a concept like this one off.

Agree! Yes is the best band ever!

Saw them in the r1978 again 1984 1988 heard they played this 1977 missed it one of my favorites 😎🎵🔊

muy lindo. :v

When life was normal, we thought it would last forever.

One of yes best song.. Never got the credit it deserved...

listen then if you can watch"The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury starring Rod Stieger it will make sense.Great song and great movie!!!

Oh, I completely forgot this beautiful, sonorous, lovely interlude at 2:55.

The Bass and drum...my god

I love this song, i prefer than Roundabout

Fuckin Chris's bass. That's all. RIP

Stay out of the South Side.

Dayum that piano/keyboard part ohhhh my gawd it's like the softest nicest fire still just the right melody as so for it not to turn to a rap melody yet still so good like a jazzist -and yes I made anew word just for now nice it is

👽A live event with these boys has always been mind blowing mates!!! We blasted off so many times to the tune mates, peace n love to all

No wonder Jethro Tull wanted Steve Howe!

Really? Martin Barre ain't no slouch neither.... Martin on marimba. Hoooray

Jon Anderson's vocal artisty is like a breath of heaven and Rick Wakeman's keyboard solo is just pure magic. And the vocal harmonies are like an angelic choir. I love this song!!

Yes, but also Bruford´s proficiency on drums.

Production and talent on this lp is amazing

3:20-5:20 🔥🔥

Still listening to this. Steve Howes guitar is beyond belief. All of it is. Surprised YT hasn't pulled this excellence

Kickass.. Our kids and grandkids will never know this excellence as they are doing away with history in all its material forms.

casi 8 minutos a puro rock sinfónico y progresivo

How does this not have 196 Million Views?

Summer 1979, Upstate N.Y., stoned on my Huffy 10-speed, everything GREEN, warm, young and free...YES!

This sounds even better now than the first listen I ever had in the 70s. Miss you Chris Squire.

So what do you listen to?
Me: yes

Shut up.

Hilarious and original

I saw the 35th Anniversary tour of Yes at MSG in 2004 with the best lineup Howe, Wakeman, Bruford, Anderson and Squire. Jon Anderson said that they had never played this song live. But they did that night for the first time. The vocal harmonies in this song are like listening to a choir of angels sing.

Bruford left the band in 1972. He returned for the Union tour in 1991, but aside from that he never played with them again, so you must have seen Alan White. I don't know if there's a live recording of South Side of the Sky with Bruford on it. If there is, I'd love to hear it.

In the top 3 of my favorite albums ever! Just genius.

Intense! Part of a prog rock soundtrack to the book, Blueberry Muffins Are Up A Buck A Pair on Spotify - accessible here https://www.blueberrymuffins.org/

CAIRO tribute to YES, South Side of the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6xcYAPVRE

0:16.05

who THE FUCK down votes YES?!!!!! U do NOT know music...

The Best of The Best

Kick ass song!

All this in-fighting in rock & roll . . . a million miles away . . . when you die. Just what exactly is 'dead' . . . certainly not Jerry.

absolute jewel!!!

We loved recording and playing “South Side of the Sky”

What idiots thumbs down this! Yes! Is top notch and always have been, it's a damn cover of the album! Whoever uploaded all their music ty! ( huge memories) I grew up on YES! Born in 67!

all the greatest Bass players in Rock History played Rickenbacker's.
Paul McCartney * Deep Purple Mk 2/Mk3 * Renaissance Jon Camp * Mike Rutherford*
*Geddy Lee * Rob Trujillo .*** RICK JAMES ! BIATCH ! *** FLASH/Ray Bennett *
*John Entwistle***Chris Squire***Lemmy MoToR HeaD ***Cliff Burton MetallicA***

Best piano in a song

Undoubtedly best song on this album, second goes to heart of the sunrise

one of yes's best!

I keep forgetting how old this is. LOL Really good for '72 I keep thinking late 70's. I was born in '75 so I wasn't there.

HAS AN ELP FEEL TO IT IN THE MIDDLE..WAKEMAN AND EMERSON RULED PROG ROCK!

How can anybody compare "Drama" with this album? Fragile,Yes Album , Close to the Edge, and Relayer.....best of Yes.

gtrsuite, they're tone deaf.Saw GTR in St.Pete.Fla.I think 1987.