The recording finds the band at a creative peak during the “Solo Albums Tour.” Following the success of Relayer (1974), the members spent 1975 recording five individual solo projects; this 1976 tour was the first time these new arrangements were integrated into the live set. The performance balances full-band epics like “The Gates Of Delirium” and “Ritual” with staples like “Siberian Khatru” and “Heart Of The Sunrise.” The set also features rare individual spotlights for Anderson’s ethereal selections from Olias of Sunhillow and Moraz’s rhythmic explorations from The Story of I, alongside Howe’s acoustic signature, “Clap.” The performance concludes with a rare rendition of “I’m Down,” a high-energy classic originally by The Beatles.
Roundabout Live at Roosevelt Stadium, 17 June 1976
Personnel
Vocals
Percussion
Guitars, Vocals
Bass, Vocals
Keyboards
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Lyrics
And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning.
And you and I reach over the sun for the river.
And you and I climb, clearer, towards the movement.
And you and I called over valleys of endless seas.
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Steve Howe/Bill Bruford/Chris Squire
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Sing bird of prey
Beauty begins at the foot of you
Do you believe the manner?
Gold stainless nail
Torn thru the distance of man
As they regard the summit.
Even Siberia goes through the motions
So hold out and hold on
Hold down the window.
Hold out the morning that comes into view.
Outboard
River
Bluetail
Tailfly
River running right on over my head.
How does she sing
Who holds the ring and ring
And you will find me coming.
Cold reigning king hold all the secrets from you
As they produce the movement.
Even Siberia goes thru the motions
So hold out and hold on
Hold down the window.
Hold out the morning that comes into view.
Outboard
River
Bluetail
Tailfly
River running right on over my head.
Outboard
River
Bluetail
Tailfly
luther
In time
Hold down the window
Hold out the morning that comes into view
Warm side the tower
Green leaves reveal the heart spoken Khatru
Gold stainless nail,
Torn thru the distance of man
As they regard the summit.
Cold reigning king shelter the woman that sings
As they produce the movement
River running right on over my head.
Outboard
River
Blue tail
Tail fly
luther
In time
Suntower
Asking
Cover lover
June cast
Moon fast
As one
Changes
Heart Gold
Leaver
Soul mark
Mover
Christian
Changer
Called out
Saviour
Moon Gate
Climber
Turn Round
Glider
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Steve Howe/Rick Wakeman
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Faster moment spent spread tales of change within the sound
Counting form through rhythm electric freedom
Moves to counter-balance stars expound our conscience
All to know and see
The look in your eyes
Passing time will reach as nature relays to set the scene
New encounters spark a true fruition
Guiding lines we touch them
Our bodies balance out the waves
As we accelerate our days
To the look in your eyes
From the moment I reached out to hold
I felt a sound
And what touches our soul slowly moves as touch rebounds
And to know that tempo will continue lost in trance of dances
As rhythm takes another turn
As is my want I only reach
To look in your eyes
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Steve Howe/Chris Squire/Patrick Moraz/Alan White
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Stand and fight we do consider
Reminded of an inner pact between us
That’s seen as we go
And ride there
In motion
To fields in debts of honour defending
Stand the marchers soaring talons
Peaceful lives will not deliver freedom
Fighting we know,
Destroy oppression
The point to reaction
As leaders look to you attacking
Choose and renounce throwing chains to the floor
Kill or be killing faster sins correct the flow
Casting giant shadows off vast
Penetrating force
To alter via the war that seen
As frictions spans the spirits’ wrath ascending to redeem
Wars that shout in screams of anguish
Power spent passion bespoils our soul receiver
Surely we know.
In glory we rise to offer,
Create our freedom, a word, we utter a word.
Words cause our banner, victorious our day
Will silence be promised as violence display
The curse increased we fight the pow’r and live by it by day
Our Gods awake in thunderous roars and guide
The leader’s hands in paths of glory to the cause
Listen should we fight forever
Knowing as we do know
Fear destroys?
Listen should we leave our children?
Listen our lives stare in silence
Help us now
Listen your friends have been broken
They tell us of your poison
Now we know
Kill them give them as they give us
Slay them burn their children’s laughter
On to Hell
The fist will run
Grasp metal to gun
The spirit sings in crashing tones we gain the battle drum
Our cries will shrill the air will moan and crash into the dawn
The pen won’t stay the demon’s wings, the hour approaches
Pounding out the Devil’s sermon
Soon oh soon the light
Pass within and soothe this endless night
And wait here for you
Our reason to be here
Soon oh soon the time
All we move to gain will reach and calm
Our heart is open
Our reason to be here
Long ago, set into rhyme
Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Steve Howe/Chris Squire/Patrick Moraz/Alan White
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
I – YOUR MOVE
I’ve seen all good people
Turn their heads each day
So satisfied
I’m on my way.
Take a straight and stronger course
To the corner of your life
Make the white queen run so fast
She hasn’t got time to make you a wife.
‘Cause it’s time
It’s time in time with your time
And its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Move me on to any black square
Use me any time you want
Just remember that the goal
Is for us all to capture all we want
Don’t surround yourself with yourself
Move on back two squares
Send an Instant Karma to me
Initial it with loving care
Don’t surround yourself.
‘Cause it’s time
It’s time in time with your time
And its news is captured.
II – ALL GOOD PEOPLE
I’ve seen all good people
Turn their heads each day
So satisfied
I’m on my way.
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Chris Squire
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Long distance run around
Long time waiting to feel the sound
I still remember the dream there
I still remember the time you said goodbye
Did we really tell lies
Letting in the sunshine
Did we really count to one hundred
Cold summer listening
Hot colour melting the anger to stone
I still remember the dream there
I still remember the time you said goodbye
Did we really tell lies
Letting in the sunshine
Did we really count to one hundred
Long distance run around
Long time waiting to feel the sound
I still remember the dream there
I still remember the time you said goodbye
Did we really tell lies
Letting in the sunshine
Did we really count to one hundred
Cold summer listening
Hot colour melting the anger to stone
I still remember the dream there
I still remember the time you said goodbye
Did we really tell lies
Letting in the sunshine
Did we really count to one hundred
Looking for the sunshine
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
i LIGHT
PERFORMED BY
Jon Davison: vocal
Steve Howe: vocal and 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar
Billy Sherwood: vocal
ii The Box
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Instrumental
WRITTEN BY
Patrick Moraz
PERFORMED BY
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Instrumental
WRITTEN BY
Steve Howe
PERFORMED BY
Steve Howe: guitar
Instrumental
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals, harp
TANTRAS: The ritual seven notes of freedom to learn and to know the ritual of
life. Life is a fight between sources of evil and pure love. Alan and Chris
present and relay the struggle out of which comes a positive source. Nous
sommes du soleil. We are of the sun. We can see.
Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play
Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play
Open doors we find our way
We look we see we smile
Surely daybreaks cross our path
And stay maybe a while
Let them run, let them chase
Let them hide between
Constant doors will open eyes
As life seems like
Life seems like a
Fight, fight, fight
Maybe I’ll just sing awhile
And then give you a call
Maybe I’ll just say hello
And say maybe that’s all
Hurry home as love is true
Will help us through the night
Till we’re coming home again
Our life seems like
Life seems like a
Fight, fight, fight
Catch as we look and use the passions that flow
As we try to continue
We receive all we venture to give
Maybe we’ll just stand awhile
And surely we can call
Dreams are said to blossom courage
Constant to the soul
Change we must as surely time does
Changes call the course
Held inside we enter daybreaks
Asking for asking four
The source
The source
The source
Sent as we sing our music’s total retain
As we try and consider
We receive all we venture to give
All we say is our
Soul constant sight listener
We won’t tender our song clearer
Till we sail
Then I will be there
And I will be there
As clearer companions
Shall call to be near you
They move around tell me that
Move around surely sing
As they don’t seem to matter at all
At all at all
Hold me my love, hold me today call me round
Travel we say, wander we choose love tune
Lay upon me, hold me around lasting hours
We love when we play
We hear a sound and alter our returning
We drift the shadows and course our way on home
Flying home
Going home
Look me my love sentences move dancing away
We join we receive
As our song memories long hope in a way
Nous sommes do soleil
Hold, me around, lasting ours
We love when we play
Nous sommes do soleil
Nous sommes du soleil
Nous sommes du soleil
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Steve Howe
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Love comes to you and you follow
Lose one on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with its arms
All around me
Lost on a wave and then after
Dream on, on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with so many around me lost in the city
Lost in their eyes as you hurry by
Counting the broken ties they decide
Love comes to you and then after
Dream on, on to the heart of the sunrise
Lost on a wave that you’re dreaming
Dram on, on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with its arms all around me
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with so many around me
I feel lost in the city
Lost in their eyes as you hurry by
Counting the broken ties they decided
Straight light moving and removing
SHARPNESS of the colour sun shine
Straight light searching all the meanings of the song
Long last treatment of the telling that relates to all the words sung
Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you
Love comes to you and then after
Dream on, on to the heart of the sunrise
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with its arms all around me
SHARP-DISTANCE
How can the wind with so many around me
I feel lost in the city
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Chris Squire/Bill Bruford
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
I’ll be the round about
The words will make you out ‘n’ out
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
In and out the valley
The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
In and out the valley
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
I will remember you
Your silhouette will charge the view
Of distance atmosphere
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
Even in the valley
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
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 deeper 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
In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they
Stand there
Twenty four before my love and I’ll be there
I’ll be the roundabout
The words will make you out ‘n’ out
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
In and out the valley
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
WRITTEN BY
Jon Anderson/Steve Howe
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
You tell lies thinking I can’t see
You can’t cry ’cause you’re laughing at me
I’m down (I’m really down)
I’m down (Down on the ground)
I’m down (I’m really down)
How can you laugh when you know I’m down (How can you laugh)
When you know I’m down
Man buys ring woman throws it away
Same old thing happens everyday
I’m down (I’m really down)
I’m down (Down on the ground)
I’m down (I’m really down)
How can you laugh when you know I’m down (How can you laugh)
When you know I’m down
We’re all alone and there’s nobody else
You still moan, “Keep your hands to yourself!”
I’m down (I’m really down)
Oh baby, I’m down (Down on the ground)
I’m down (I’m really down)
How can you laugh when you know I’m down (How can you laugh)
When you know I’m down, wow
Baby I’m down
Oh baby, you know I’m down (I’m really down)
Oh yes, I’m down (I’m really down)
I’m down on the ground (I’m really down)
Ah, Down (I’m really down)
Oh baby, I’m upside down, a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m down (I’m really down)
Oh baby, I’m down (I’m really down)
I’m feeling upside down (I’m really down)
Oh, I’m down (I’m really down)
Baby, I’m down, yeah
Oh baby, I’m down, yeah
Baby I’m down (I’m really down)
Well, baby I’m down (I’m really down)
Well, baby, baby, baby (I’m really down)
Oh baby, I’m down
I’m down, down, down
WRITTEN BY
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
PERFORMED BY
Jon Anderson: lead vocals
Alan White: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, backing vocals
Chris Squire: bass, backing vocals
Patrick Moraz: keyboards