Close To The Edge chords by Yes

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Close to The Edge
(Anderson/Howe)

Album: Close to the Edge (1972)

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A R G E N T I N A

Intro:

I The Solid Time Of Change

Verse 1:
Am                              A
A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace
Am                        A
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace
Am                         A
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar
Am                              Gm
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour
Am                          A
And assessing points to nowhere, leading every single one
Am                      A
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun
Am
And take away the plain in which we move
           Gm
And choose the course you're running
Em     D    G      F#M
Down at the edge, round by the corner
B        Bm
Not right away, not right away
Em     D    G      F#M
Close to the edge, down by a river
B        Bm
Not right away, not right away

Am  F  C  F C

F              C
Crossed the line around the changes of the summer
F              C
Reaching out to call the color of the sky
F              C
Passed around a moment clothed in mornings faster than we see
F              C
Getting over all the time I had to worry
F              C
Leaving all the changes far from far behind
F              C
We relieve the tension only to find out the master's name
Em     D    G      F#M
Down at the end, round by the corner
Em     D    G      F#M  Em
Close to the edge, just by a river
C      D  G
Seasons will pass you by
D    G     Bm
I get up, I get down
 F        C
Now that it's all over and done
F         C
Now that you find, now that you're whole


II Total Mass Retain
Am                                A
My eyes convinced, eclipsed with the younger moon attained with love
Am                             A
It changed as almost strained amidst clear manna from above
Am                        A
I crucified my hate and held the word within my hand
Am                                Gm
There's you, the time, the logic, or the reasons we don't understand
Am                             A
Sad courage claimed the victims standing still for all to see
Am                          A
As armoured movers took approached to overlook the sea
Am                                Gm
There since the cord, the license, or the reasons we understood will be
Em  Dm  Am
Em              F#m
Down at the edge, close by a river
Em              F#m
Close to the edge, round by the corner
Em  Dm  Am
Em              F#m
Close to the end, down by the corner
Em              F#m
Down at the edge, round by the river
 Em  Dm Am Em F#m
F              C
Sudden problems shouldn't take away the startled memory
F            C
All in all, the journey takes you all the way
F                C
As apart from any reality that you've ever seen and known
F              C
Guessing problems only to deceive the mention
F                C
Passing paths that climb halfway into the void
F                C
As we cross from side to side, we hear the total mass retain
Em     D    G      F#M
Down at the edge, round by the corner
Em     D    G      F#M
Close to the end, down by a river
C      D  G
Seasons will pass you by
D    G     Bm
I get up, I get down

Am F  C G Am F C
Am F  C G C Am G F
G Am G F
E


III I Get Up, I Get Down

G#m        Bm            F#m
In her white lace, you could clearly see the lady sadly looking
Am
Saying that she'd take the blame
    B
For the crucifixion of her own domain
Emaj7     C#m
I get up, I get down
Emaj7     C#m
I get up, I get down
G#m        Bm
Two million people barely satisfy
F#m             Am      B
Two hundred women watch one woman cry, too late
G#m        Bm
The eyes of honesty can achieve
F#m         Am       B
How many millions do we deceive each day?
Emaj7     C#m
I get up, I get down
Emaj7     C#m
I get up, I get down
G#m        Bm
In charge of who is there in charge of me
F#m         Am       B
Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?
G#m        Bm
The truth is written all along the page
F#m         Am       B
How old will I be before I come of age for you?
Emaj7     C#m
I get up, I get down
Emaj7     C#m
I get up, I get down
Emaj7     C#m
I get up, I get down


IV Seasons Of Man

Am                           A
The time between the notes relates the color to the scenes
Am                     A
A constant vogue of triumphs dislocate man, it seems
Am                           A
And space between the focus shape ascend knowledge of love
Am                           Gm
As song and chance develop time, lost social temp'rance rules above
Em       F#m
Ah, ah
Am                           A
Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arm to space
Am                           A
He turned around and pointed, revealing all the human race
Am                           Gm
I shook my head and smiled a whisper, knowing all about the place
F           C
On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley
F           C
Called to witness cycles only of the past
F                   C
And we reach all this with movements in between the said remark

Em     D    G      F#M
Down at the edge, round by the corner
Em     D    G      F#M
Close to the end, down by a river
C      D  G
Seasons will pass you by
Em          F#m
Now that it's all over and done
Em          F#m
Called to the seed, right to the sun
Em          F#m
Now that you find, now that you're whole

C      D  G
Seasons will pass you by
D    G     Bm
I get up, I get down
D    G     Bm
I get up, I get down
D    G     Bm
I get up, I get down
D    G
I get up