The Who Concert Guide

  • Home
  • Gigographie
    • The Who
    • Roger Daltrey
    • John Entwistle
    • Pete Townshend
    • Concerts
      • Ticket Stubs
      • Concert Gallery
      • Cities
      • Venues
      • Concert Reviews
  • Songs & Records
    • Records
    • Songs
    • Live Records
    • Singles
    • Videos
  • Contact

Affirmation

Written by Mike Da Costa

Lyrics

Yes Yes Yes, is what it is,
and what it is is love,
and love is what it's all about
in the frantic panic of day to day depths
over schizophrenic city

Yes Yes Yes is the stuff that makes it work and hold together,
how it fits into the twines and how the rhythm flows,
like the river Siddharthe sat by.
Yes Yes, is the music there for listening,
is the poetry there for perception for even tired eyes?
Let's rub noses in the smell of things,
fingers through grubby summer grasses,
as polluted pearls burst over rooftops;
hope encapsulating a moment of truth in a moment of time.

Yes, Yes, it's a moments like this I can run barefoot
over wet paving stones that the city performs its bitter
reflections without regret,
for it's in good hands, in good hands,
the hands of the Master.

Yes Yes Yes, just this feeling, just the feeling, the feeling,
you can feel it; I can feel it,
streaming through me, continuous, enchanting rhythm,
and the rhythm's enchanting,
and the rhythm's like season rhythms,
river rhythms, sea rhythms, sun rhythms, love rhythms,
and even in the roaring traffic's rude rhythms,
overlapped the electronic chains;
city birds chirp communications.
Oh Yes, Yes

And the love flows on
feeling in the misused madness
which works to separate the unity of all creation,
and the chains which would bind us,
and in my bones,
and in the inner functions of my unbelievable being.

Yes Yes Yes Yes
And the love flows on, and the love flows on,
and the love flows on, and the love flows on.

And in the million frowns,
and in the million sightless eyes,
jostling for a place in the circle of perfection;
and I can feel it in you who listen to the song
This Song Is Green

Of this man I must
sing a song or turn to dust,
'cos I know eventually, he will sing to me,
whispering through the leaves,
whispering songs of silent bliss.
Such a love I can't resist,
and it is both you and me,
and the stars above,
whispering through the leaves,
whispering songs of love.

But this song is green,
'cos the world I've never seen.
And it's just another light,
breaking out the day,
bringing on the night.
What it is I cannot say,
and the tune I cannot play,
but I know there is a key;
lift your eyes and see,
it's reality.
And this song is green.

Cover

Song Info

Taken from: I Am
Released: 1972


Records & More

  • Songs
  • Records
  • Live Records

Contact Us

Please help to make The Who Concert Guide better and better. Send reports, setlists, pictures etc.

  • Learn More
  • Email

    info@thewholive.net

  • Concert Guide on Facebook

    TheWhoConcerts

  • Official Website

    thewho.com

  • Shows of Hand

    Rush in Concert 1974-2015

  • History in Records

    Papadosio 2011-2022

The Who Concert Guide 9.06 - © 2026 Bob Smoochie Production. All rights reserved.
Contact | Introduction | The Who Concert Guide Blog