Yes / Fragile (US, Atlantic ‎– SD 7211, WLP) <November 1971> その①A

Yes / Fragile (US, Atlantic ‎– SD 7211, WLP) <November 1971> その①A
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Fragile is the fourth studio album by English rock band Yes, released in November 1971 by Atlantic Records. Following a successful tour in promotion of The Yes Album (1971), the band regrouped in London to work on a follow-up. Early into the sessions, keyboardist Tony Kaye was fired over his reluctance to play synthesisers, and was replaced with Rick Wakeman of the Strawbs, whose experience with a wider variety of keyboards expanded the band's sound. Four tracks on Fragile are group compositions; the remaining five are solo pieces written by each member. The album's artwork was the first to be designed by Roger Dean, who would design many of their future covers and stage sets.

Fragile received a positive reception upon its release, and was a commercial success, reaching number four on the US Billboard Top LPs chart and number seven on the UK Albums Chart. Yes released an edited version of "Roundabout" as the album's sole single in the US, which reached number 13 and became one of the band's best known songs. Fragile has since been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over two million copies in the US. It has been remastered several times since its release, some containing previously unreleased tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCLFtxpadE

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I spent the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound and
In and out the valley

[Verse 2]
The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spent the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound and
In and out the valley

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 3]
I will remember you
Your silhouette will charge the view
Of distant atmosphere
Call it morning driving through the sound and
Even in the valley

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 4]
Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching
Down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees
The rim of the land
The eagle's 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 deepest fears we stand
Surrounded by a million years
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out

[Bridge]
In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky, they stand there
Twenty four before my love and I'll be there

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 1]
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I spent the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound and
In and out the valley

[Chorus]
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

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