Close to the Edge
Released 13 September 1972
Recorded April–June 1972
Personnel: 
Jon Anderson – vocals
Steve Howe – guitars, vocals
Chris Squire – bass, vocals
Rick Wakeman – keyboards
Bill [bad word] – [bad word]  percussion

I. Cord Of Life [bad word] Howe/Squire)

man conceived a moment's answers to the dream,
Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes.
As a foundation left to create the spiral aim,
movement regained and regarded both the same, [bad word] in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed.
Between the picture of time behind the face of [bad word] quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid, [bad word] in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Oh.

Turn round tailor, Coins and
Assaulting all the mornings of the Crosses
Interest shown, Never know
Presenting one another to the cord, Their [bad word] worth;
All left dying, rediscovered Cords are broken,
Of the door that turned round, Locked inside
To close the cover, the mother earth.
All the interest shown, They won't
To turn one another, to the sign Hide, hold, they won't
At the time Tell you, watching the world,
To float your climb. Watching all of the world,
Watching us go by.

And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.

II. Eclipse [bad word] Squire) [bad word] quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same, [bad word] in the sight of seeds of life with you.

III. The Preacher the Teacher [bad word] Howe/Squire)

Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.
Ooh, ooh.

I listened hard but could not see
Life tempo change out and inside me.
The preacher trained in all to lose his name;
The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same.
In the end, we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalise
That the [bad word] of the man maturing in his eyes, [bad word] in the sight of seeds of life with you. [bad word] quickly to terms of all expression laid,
As a moment regained and regarded both the same,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you.

IV. Apocalypse [bad word] Howe/Squire)

And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning.
And you and I climb, 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.