Centuries ago in the secondary grammar school a nick-name was given to me: „Muser”. I didn’t like it at that time but I knew it’s true, fitting me. Since then time has passed away but I hasn’t changed. I like to think about the meaning of life being delighted by millions miracles of nature, seeing the clouds in the sky, wondering rivers, forests, plants and animals, seeking the good in the man. When I was young I did not make an ideology from these, I did it spontaneously and naturally.
In the early seventies I had already liked music. One day strange, extraordinary sound was coming from the radio: „Roundabout”. It was attracting me so much that I started to figure out what is Yes. I felt joy of being but I was to young to be able to understand Yes. Later I bought vinyls one by one, listened to the same song several times, tried to understand the lyrics and step by step a new world was revealed to me.
Being born under the Sun – as a Lion – I was susceptible for Jon’s lyrics („Sun will lead us”) and Saint Francesco way of living („Brother Sun Sister Moon”).
Having translated Yes and Jon lyrics into Hungarian, now I slightly understand Yes meaning. Hearing „Awaken”, „Ritual”, „Revealing Science Of God”, Mind Drive etc. uplifting, moving feelings are driving me. It is much more strength when I take part in a concert when I feel the strange energy coming from the music. „Fight and Victory of Harmony over the Chaos”. Joy of Being.
Thank You Jon, Chris, Steve, Alan and Rick to open my eyes and ears and make me better.

Starship Peter  the Yesmuser

Songs of the Ancient Times

You are standing in the coast of Atlantic Ocean
You are waiting for a sound that gives you a motion
The scream of millions songs to the now
You don’t know what to do and how
From East and West lemmings are coming and drowning
In the deep water above an orichalcum ring
Between the old ruins: deafening silence
On the map you can’t find three islands
In empty cities: nerve-wrecking calm
You daren’t touch anything with your palm
In the abyss: blinding dark
In your mind you see that mark
And when the Doomsday of the Kingdom came
Volcanoes erupted like a universal flame
Oh, Poseidon’s empire
Why have you been destroyed by a fire?

Here the fire is cold, the wind has never blown
This is the land of dry water, the air just drowns

If the Doomsday comes, strange things you will see
Nothing but cold flame burning on dry sea

You will be the crowd in the empty place
For the Future, you’ll take a shout into the space

We are the heroes of our nightmare
When we are flying in the blue sky
And we see black clouds in the water
But we are ascending to the High

To Air and Water I will sing songs that you can’t hear
For forgotten memories of the Future you’ll shed a tear
Yourself is beyond you want to be
Your love is beyond you want to see

When I close my eyes in the rain, I just see your face
When the rain falls onto me, I feel your embrace

Among the clouds of the dark blaze
Trees grow out from wet flames
In the liquid air that gives us light
We swim among the islands of the sky that grant our life
On the burning earth we sink down
If we touch the soil, we won’t drown
Between the wet lands of dry seas
The blower ascend us to the blazing surfaces

I’d like to ride on my previous life
I’d like to fly away and leave this place
But I’m afraid I will remember you
And nothing will displace

I want cold winter
I want dark night
I want long nightmare
I want dark sight

I’m empty inside my soul
There’s only my music and my love
Please have a look at me, I can’t cry
I’m blazing inside my mind
Because I’m broken
I know I can’t but I’ll try

Here I’m standing on a Height
I wanna jump, say goodbye
I need to see your eyesight
Please help me to leave this life

You needn’t use your face to smile
You can do it with your eyes
Sing to me with your angel voice
I know it can’t tell lies

My thoughts are killing my soul
Because of your distance
Please have a look at me, I can’t die
Days have passed with soft pain
Here comes the real need
I know I can’t but I’ll try

Don’t want me to be against myself
Don’t expect my heart to fight with my brain
Don’t want me to surround myself with myself
Don’t expect me to deny my pain

Don’t ask me what I was at that weekend
You must know it, you are on whom I depend

Don’t care else others, they don’t mind you
Don’t watch your steps, do what you want to do
Don’t mind what she’s telling, she’ll disappear
Like she appeared, there will come another fear
My Future is written, my Past is behind me
If you’re not beside me, you will never see

Let me keep my dreams
Let me be alone at night
Don’t play parts in my dreams
Let me blow that light

I’m so delighted…
Silent talking in between us makes us fit together
Your calm watching into my eyes makes me happy forever
I’m so delighted…

I’m walking all alone on the empty road
Headlight is shining in my eyes through the crowd
The sky is crying instead of me
I just want not to be, I just want not to be
I’m running all alone on the empty streets
Starlight is wading through my mind into my dreams
You are crying instead of me
I just want not to be, I just want not to be

I’m walking in the cold night
High above moonlight is shining so bright
I’m walking in fields of white
Through the mist I see your sight
I see cascades of your hair
I feel your breath in the air
In this silence I hear your voice
When it first snows, when the first snow falls

There’s no point me, there’s no point in you
There’s no point in life, I won’t continue
I’ve never lost my place, ‘cause I’ve never got here
All I had was my music that now I can’t hear

I’m lying in the darkness with your memory
I’m lying here and feeling nothing but misery
I’m lying surrounded with myself like a dead
I’m lying all around and dreaming that:
Wind embraces me while I’m falling endlessly in the sky
Sinking in the ocean with the feeling I could die
And burning in between those beautiful flames
Wading through wild river, running in coarse plain
Standing in emptiness and crying your name
I just want one more time together
One such a moment that takes forever
Once more together to be with you
Nothing to see and nothing to do

We can’t talk, we just lie
We can’t walk, we just try
We can’t feel, we just pretend
We really know just in the end

Future-sky-air-cry
Breath-tear-rain-fear

I see again the aeroplane star
And remember our talking
I feel again that sick cry
And walk as we were walking

Stars will fall down one by one
As my tears into the sea
The Moon will burn out as the
Light in my eyes, and you will see

Your perfect conspiracy narrowed my sight
Your perfect lies chased me into fight
Your perfect eyes made me so ill
Why did you just hurt but didn’t kill
No more aim, nothing to dream about
No reason to cry, no reason to shout
No more sacrifice, no more sin
I’ve got nothing to lose and nothing to win
Nobody to love, no reason to live
No place to stay, no place to leave
That green shooting star was just in vain
That little piece of earth is cold where I’ve just lain
I’ve believed so many things, I need no more lie
No chance to stay alive, it’s time to die

I’m standing in the water remembering our time
Waiting for an answer from the stars of mine

As I’m burning in the water and try to keep your pace
Winds of a new era start blowing from the space
A black cloud of freedom cast a shadow on the fields of green
The rain slowly cascades down like the thoughts in my mind
The last sunshine touches my face, skies and lands entwine

A thunder fills the sky with its flashing lights
Leaves whisper in your voice: “Everything’s all right!”
The storm has disappeared, as it’s never been
What’s this peace? I wanted to be free not empty!
What’s this silence? Now I want you to refill me!

I know this peace will die away and nothing will soothe
My pain when my love will come back, soon.

Keep your eyes on the changes that are coming from the far
Keep your eyes on me I’m going to ride away
Be afraid of the future that is prepared to come
Keep your eyes on the wonders, they are going to hide the way!
 

Verses a Reverses

Time waits and you stand still
Try to break it if you have will
Made-up thoughts and your lies
They will kill you when she cries

Tides has passed and I stand still
Like a thin sunray through the clouds
I’ve lost my aim but I have will
To walk in the way of life to the stars

Should I loose my life
Devil will give it back
Should my soul be dead
God will relight that

No matter how dark life is
I still shine like a motionless flame
I have wasted my time in vain
But I need no one to blame

Love passes by
It’s all the same when:
Now or then
So just keep dreaming

In the Evening of the Shooting Stars
Time has rebegun
It’s time to show your wings and fly
Let someone else run

What am I waiting for?
You have lost. - Did I ever have you?
I don’t think so!
A feeling is dying, there’s nothing to do!
You make me chase you
Each time I let it break out
I try to disguise but I do feel
It will be and shout!

Hey man, I see you thinking
About life: will you survive?
About death and all the rest
I see you wondering in vain.

Flying high but tightened
Memories are pulling me down
A thin thread holds me back
From flying high untightened
And seeing the crack of the dawn
I just float in the lack
Of flying high not tightened
 

Music of the Spheres

"May thou be walking on the path
May the wind blow thy back
May the sun shine on thy face
May the rain fall on thy estates
May God worship thee"

If you’re drowning in your sinful blood
And searching for the truth to life
Stifle your hate in splendid love
And crucify every evil act by right

Help your brothers with their fight
But kill the ones who can’t move forward
And do it only with your mind
So walk your life simply and onward

The window broke the sunshine
And it came through your hair
Your presence broke the moment
They all entwined in a wonder

I’ve been searching for the aim
Of cruelty and hate
And got lost in the lies
Of all the senseless fights

I’ve been searching for the sense
Of love and silence
And found the way
To a reason to stay

one two three seven five
six four eight ten nine
one two three six five seven
eight four ten twelve nine eleven

Left to fell, left to rise
In the seas of the cries
And the tears themselves
Souls are put on the shelves

my time is slow by now but fast to flow away
or i might be too slow and time is still the same
oh i just float in time while moments chase their ways
and i reach out for them to ask them all to stay
and they just smile at me but run their course again
or take a spin round me then shine and melt away
and i could grab them all but wish not smash the play
so simply watch them die: a min a sec a day
and till my time lingers
 
I’ve seen gods waking on the sky
I’ve seen some angels flying high
I’ve seen a spark behind the moon
But I knew them all
Long before

(Someone has died)
(Something has died)

I’ve almost died and almost lived
I’ve almost doubted what I believed
I’ve almost lost, I’ve almost lost
But I saw it all
Long before

Long lost amazement cleared up my mind
Long lost wondering took me by surprise

There’s a bridge, there’s a god
There’s a word and there is love
There’s truth and there is soul
There’s a world for us all

I wake up late and walk slowly
I lean against a wall and wait

A turn-back, a stop
I look at the stars
I can’t see them
I won’t lie
I’d lost them
Before I died

A new life is coming
Through the night
I can’t make it out
I’m in it
I will lose them
Before I lived

Your spine is broken just as you’re born
And let to misknit again
Then pulled out through your mind to control
And bind you till your end

And every single step you take
Just seems to take you in your fate
And every spring you try aside
Thrusts you closer to no desire

And fighting all your evil thoughts
They feast on your rage at your soul
And you shiver by now since know
You will remember it for all

So ask your God to stand in for it
Grab the Word and fill The Pit
And set with it like bone to flesh
Finding peace for your soul and rest

Face the Evil, spell his worst name
He will run shivering with fear
See his sins and take his blame
Just turn a smile on his great spleen

Ups are heavens
Downs are hells
The mean is lived
By someone else

Day has turned to night
And night has turned to day
The golden Moon is shining
On the longest way

I flow in time as time flows in me
I live in love as love lives in me
I      in      as            in me
I      in      as            in me

Moments run, they will never be the same
You will never live this life again
It is all the same to you, but you will mind it then
All these things are gone forever now, man

I’ve walked some ways
And seen the place
They built me slave
The old bricks
My head said yes to them
My legs walked their ways
My lounge took their breath
My back
My hands built me their slave

Wish for the night…
Clear sky and full moon
Gentle wind soon
Silence but one voice
Rest from the noise
Silver horses
On wind-courses.
Wish for something denied…
Chase to choose
Fall to call
Leave to live
See to be

Mend the sky
Make me cry
Make me die
Make me lie ... DOWN

Spell your soul
Tell your goal
Tell it all
Tell the whole ... TRUTH

Tend to cease
Ride the seas
Ride to me
Ride your free...DOM

I touch the Moon I touch the stars
I fall around all the skies

An angel is rising slowly in my heart to ascend to my mind
An angel is rising slowly in my heart to ascend to my mind
An angel is rising slowly in my heart to ascend to my mind
An angel is rising slowly in my heart to ascend to my mind
An angel is rising slowly in my heart to ascend to my mind
An angel is rising slowly in my heart to ascend to my mind
An angel is rising slowly in my heart to ascend to my mind

You climb your hills and run your fields
Shouldn’t you just lie and breathe?

You chase a dream or chase a lie
Shouldn’t you find your own life?

You say it’s just a prelude for the game
But that life will be the same
Answer me! Where’s your aim?

Grab the moment, seize the day
Don’t allow to be betrayed

You are an angel as we are
Use your wings, don’t watch your fall

The spells are given, it’s up to you
Use them, they will change you too

Hey God, I see you thinking
About me: what will I be?
About you and what you will do
I see you wondering in vain.

Hey Seth, I see you thinking
About : ?
About sex with it you vex
Me in vain.

Choose a life
Choose a mind
Choose a soul
And lose it all

In Search of God’s Real Name

"Fiery waving angels fell
Deep thunder rolled around their shores
Burning in the fire of Orch"

Zoli

I am evidently lucky. This was my third time to meet Yes after Open Your Eyes Tour, Budapest, Hungary, 1998, and Ladder Tour, Vienna, 2000. Yes music has changed my way of thinking and living. First in the early 70`s I found it strange, extraordinary and beautiful but didn't understand the message. Later as I was growing up felt that I was induced to go deeper and try to understand the news spread by them. Having spent several months with translation of original English lyrics to Hungarian I have a better understanding.
It's also a miracle that so different people - different in shape, habit - came together and play their music in unity feeling the same. And after some changes they are together again.
Yessymphonic concert was fantastic. Opening performed by a Polish symphonic orchestra came from Yessymphonic CD was nice, than we could listen Close To The Edge. Yes music was shining brightly (even "brighter than before") within symphonic environment too, each musician played on superb level. Steve is a very good guitar player. I've never heard better one than he. And his playing is so new, extraordinary, being on an unknown, unrevealed way. He is a real pioneer and inventor seeking new ways. He is a modest person likes to be drawing back.
Long Distance Runaround is a very effective song even on the stage, We enjoyed it. I think "Magnification" is so good that more than two songs could have been played. Lyric of "In the presence of" touched me deeply. In addition to this I should consider Alan as a good piano player too. I've never heard The Gates of Delirium live so it was a very special feeling then and there for me. The war, the power of evil and finally the calm, peaceful end with the most beautiful slow and soft song in rock history "Soon". Jon was fantastic as usual. He was singing, dancing, playing different instruments and gave us lot of energy. I feel this energy (this is not the best word), his shining, his message on each Yes concert. While he was giving from his soul we were getting better. For a long time after a concert I feed my soul with his warm peaceful full of love shine. Believe me it is very difficult to make words about this, but very easy to feel. But while the audience is being uplifted, moved and touched by Yes music, Jon is loosing energy and after the concert he is very tired and exploited. Thank you Jane to save him, to shield him, to provide him good conditions for recreation. Jon is devoting himself evidently for the message, to spread the news through Yes music. Thank you for your cord of life standing on the sacred ground.
And You And I was played for Jane and she deserves it hundred million times. Perpetual Change, and Starship Trooper were excellent, beautiful. Chris was very active, his bass guitar playing is an essential part of Yes music.
Ritual-Nous Sommes Du Soleil is from my best beloved album "Tales…". I enjoyed it very much. During "I've Seen All Good People" we were asked to stand up and dance. The atmosphere was outstanding and we didn't let them to leave the stage, and they played finally "Roundabout" too.
After the concert we wished "Happy Birthday" to Jon and talked to Alan, Chris and Jon.
Thank You Yes again for the unforgettable evening, and see you again in Prague.
Save you for you, for your relatives and for us for a long time. Be the light.

Starship Peter  the Yesmuser

This show could reveal the fruits of Jon’s soul development. Simplicity, pure humanity, searching, feeling, dreaming and finally understanding and teaching based on love. People who had waited for a loud, theatrical big Yes concert could be disappointed. However this Hungarian audience gathered in Petofi Hall Budapest having open hearts and prepared soul could accept and understand the essence of the evening, giving and getting energy to and from a magical, sensitive artist feeling physical wonder during the show. Beside such milestones in Jon’s musical pioneering career like „State Of Independence”, „Change We Must” or „The Revealing Science Of God”, „And You And I”, „Yours Is No Disgrace” I enjoyed the so called Buddha song „This Is” very much. Dream on Jon, we follow you. Please come back soon, tell and sing us your wonderous stories.
Be the Light!

Starship Peter  the Yesmuser

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