Roundabout (song)

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"Roundabout"
"Roundabout" cover
Single by Yes
from the album Fragile
B-side "Long Distance Runaround"
Released January, 1972
Format 7" 45 rpm
Recorded 1971
Genre Progressive Rock
Length 8:29 (full-length version)

3:27 (single edit)

8:33 (Early Rough Mix)
Label Atlantic Records
Writer Jon Anderson, Steve Howe
Producer Yes, Eddie Offord
Fragile track listing
"Roundabout"
(1)		 "Cans and Brahms"
(2)

"Roundabout" is the track which opens the 1971 album Fragile produced by British progressive rock band Yes. In 1972, an edited version of the song was released as a single with "Long Distance Runaround" on the B side.[1] The single has been listed at #16 on one list of 1972s best songs,[2] and "Roundabout" has become one of the best-known songs by Yes.

These are the lyrics of the first verse:

"I’ll be the roundabout
The words will make you out ’n’ out
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound
and in and out the valley."[3]

"Roundabout" was written by Jon Anderson and Steve Howe. Although the song's cryptic lyrics are believed by some to have philosophical themes, Anderson says that the words simply came to him while driving to the studio one early morning.

Howe's use of harmonics on the acoustic guitar introduction of the song has become one of his signature pieces of guitar work. In the film School of Rock, Fragile is given to the keyboardist Lawrence as he is told to listen to "Roundabout".

An acoustic arrangement of "Roundabout" was recorded for The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection.


  1. ^ Roundabout / Long Distance Runaround
  2. ^ Top singles of 1972
  3. ^ Roundabout
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