Lyrics to
Yours Is No Disgrace

This version of Yours Is No Disgrace was released by Yes in 1971.

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Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar’s palace, morning glory, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no disgrace.

Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are,
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are,
Lost in summer, morning, winter, travel very far,
Lost in losing circumstances, that’s just where you are.

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar’s palace, morning glory, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.

Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth,
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear.

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar’s palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.

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About Lyrics and Yours Is No Disgrace by Yes

The lyrics for Yours Is No Disgrace are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Yes. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Yours Is No Disgrace 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 Yours Is No Disgrace - 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 Yours Is No Disgrace 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 Yours Is No Disgrace" means the words set to the music of Yours Is No Disgrace, 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 Yours Is No Disgrace and the lyrics to Yours Is No Disgrace 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 Yours Is No Disgrace, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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