Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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TEMPUS FUGIT

Born in the night
She would run like a leopard
That freaks at the sight
Of a mind close beside herself
And the nearer I came
How the country would change
She was using the landscape
To hide herself.

More in the mind
Than the body this feeling
A sense at the end
Of a circular line
That is drawn at an angle
I see when I'm with you
To navigate waters and finally answer to-yes.

If you were there you would want to be near me
Innocence, you could hold all the materials
And though nothing would really be living
It would shock Your fall into landing light
In the north sky time flies fast to the morning
The cold of the dawn it meant nothing to us
You were keeping your best situation
An answer to-yes

(Yes, Yes) And the moment I see you
(Yes, Yes) It's so good to be near you
(Yes, Yes) And the feeling you give me
(Yes, Yes) Makes me want to be with you
(Yes, Yes) From the moment you tell me - yes

If you could see all the roads I have travelled
Towards some unusable last equilibrium
Run like an athlete and die like a dead beaten speed-freak
An answer to all of your answers to-yes

In the north sky time flies faster than morning
The cold of the dawn it meant nothing to us
You were keeping your best situation
An answer to Yes

(Yes, Yes) And the moment I see you
(Yes, Yes) It's so good to be near you
(Yes, Yes) And the feeling you give me
(Yes, Yes) Makes me want to be with you
(Yes, Yes) If we wait for an answer
(Yes, Yes) Will the silence be broken
(Yes, Yes) Should we wait for an answer
(Yes, Yes) Do we leave it unspoken

(Yes Yes Yes Yes . . .)

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Drama

CD/VINYL SIDE ONE/TWO
1. "Machine Messiah" (Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White) 10:27
2. "White Car" (Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White) 1:21
3. "Does It Really Happen?" (Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White) 6:35

4. "Into the Lens" (Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White) 8:33
5. "Run Through the Light" (Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White) 4:43
6. "Tempus Fugit" (Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White) 5:15

CD REMASTER BONUS TRACKS
7. "Into the Lens" Single release 3:47
8. "Run Through the Light" Single release 4:31
9. "Have We Really Got to Go Through This" 3:43
10. "Song No. 4 (Satellite)" 7:31
11. "Tempus Fugit" Tracking session 5:39
12. "White Car" Tracking session 1:11
13. "Dancing Through the Light" (Jon Anderson, Howe, Squire, Rick Wakeman and White) "Paris Sessions" 3:16
14. "Golden Age" (Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman and White) "Paris Sessions" 5:57
15. "In the Tower" (Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman and White) "Paris Sessions" 2:54
16. "Friend of a Friend" (Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman and White) "Paris Sessions" 3:38

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PERFORMED BY

Trevor Horn - lead vocals, fretless bass on "Run Through the Light"
Steve Howe - guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire - bass, backing vocals, piano on "Run Through the Light"
Geoff Downes - keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals
Alan White - drums, percussion, backing vocals

PRODUCED BY
Trevor Horn, Yes
Backing tracks: Eddie Offord

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Released 22 August 1980
Recorded April--June 1980
Length 36:55
Label Atlantic

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Drama is the tenth studio album by British rock band Yes. It is the first Yes album without vocalist Jon Anderson. In early 1980, after rehearsing music for the follow-up to the tepidly-received Tormato, both Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman departed the band over creative and financial differences.

It was the only album without Anderson and with keyboardist Geoff Downes before Fly From Here in 2011, and is the only Yes album with Trevor Horn as lead vocalist; however he was later involved as producer in 90125 and Fly From Here. It is also Yes last album before the band disbanded in 1981, before reforming in 1982.

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See YES on Tour in 2013/14 performing 3 full-length albums:
The Yes Album, Close To The Edge & Going For The One.


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