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INTO THE LENS

Memories, how they fade so fast
Look back, that is no escape
Tied down, now you see too late.
Lovers, they will never wait.

I am a camera

Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
You lose them
If you feel the feeling start.

I am a camera, camera, camera

And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be.

Here, by the waterside
There, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility.

Taken, taken so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transform, to transfer, to energy.

Taken, taken, so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transformer, transferring energy.

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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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you'd hate who I am now

A sparse, fingerpicked singer-songwriter take on Too Damn Loud.

This version strips the song down to acoustic guitar and voice, letting the humor emerge quietly through contrast and escalation rather than punchlines. What starts as a familiar complaint about modern noise gradually reveals itself as an unreliable nostalgia—one that remembers comfort, but forgets context.

Dry, observational, and intentionally restrained, this recording leans into classic folk and singer-songwriter traditions where satire lives inside sincerity. If you’ve ever nodded along to a complaint before realizing you shouldn’t have, this one’s for you.

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Pauvre Lola [serge gainsbourg]

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Yes are an English rock band who have achieved worldwide success with their progressive, artistic, and symphonic style of rock music. Pioneers of progressive rock, YES have achieved worldwide success with a history spanning 50 years and 22 studio albums. The band is known for its expansive songs, esoteric lyrics, elaborate album art and live stage sets.

The band’s current line-up consists of guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes, singer Jon Davison and bassist Billy Sherwood.

YES alumni are Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford, Trevor Horn, Trevor Rabin, Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye, Peter Banks, Patrick Moraz, Benoit David, Oliver Wakeman, Igor Khoroshev and Tom Brislin.

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