Lyrics to
Going For The One

This version of Going For The One was released by Yes in 1977.

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Get the idea
Cross around the track
When you leap on the flank
Of a thoroughbred racing chaser

Get the feel
As the rhythm flows
Would you like to go
And shoot the mountain masses?

And here you stand no taller than the grass seas
And should you really chase so hard
The truth of sport plays rings around you

Going for the one
Going for the one

Get in the way
As the tons of water
Racing with you
Crash into the rudders
Once at the start
Can you gamble that
You really surely
Really mean to finish

After seeing all your sense of fear diminish
As you treat danger as a pure connection
As you throw away all misconceptions

Going for the one
Going for the one
Going for-ward to

Listen in time
Taken so high
To touch, to move
Listen to life

Touching, touch time
Travel, twilight
Taken so high
Roundabout, sounding out
Love me so

Now the verses I’ve sang
Don’t add much weight
To the story in my head
So I’m thinking I should go and write a punchline

But they’re so hard to find
In my cosmic mind
So I think I’ll take
A look out of the window

When I think about you
I don’t feel low
Should I really chase so hard?
The truth of sport plays rings around you

Going for the one
Going for the one
Going for-ward to

Listen in time
Taken so high
To touch, to move
Listen to life

Touching, touch time
Travel, twilight
Taken so high
Taking your time

Turn on to love
Turnstile to one
Tender timing
Rocking, rolling

Listen in time
Taken so high
To touch, to move
Listen to life

Touching, touch time
Travel, twilight
Taken so high
Taking your time

Turn on to love
Turnstile to one
Tender timing
Rocking, rolling

Turn on to love
Turnstile to one
Tender timing
Rocking, rolling

Moments decide…
Moments delight…
Moments invite…
Talk about sending love…
Love…
Love…
Love…
Love

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Yes has released many songs over the years besides Going For The One. Yes released songs from 1969 to 2001 spanning across albums like Yes, Time And A Word, The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Going For The One, Tormato, Drama, 90125, Big Generator, Union, Talk, Keys To Ascension, Keys To Ascension 2, Open Your Eyes, The Ladder, and Magnification. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Yes.

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About Lyrics and Going For The One by Yes

The lyrics for Going For The One are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Yes. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Going For The One have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Going For The One - Yes and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Going For The One by Yes in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Going For The One" means the words set to the music of Going For The One, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Yes. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Going For The One and the lyrics to Going For The One are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Yes who came here looking just for the lyrics to Going For The One, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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