| "Saving My Heart" | ||||
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| Single byYes | ||||
| from the albumUnion | ||||
| B-side |
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| Released | 1 July 1991[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1989–1991 | |||
| Genre | Reggae pop[2] | |||
| Length | 4:41 | |||
| Label | Arista Arista ASCD-2263 (US) 664 553 (UK) | |||
| Songwriter | Trevor Rabin | |||
| Producer | Trevor Rabin | |||
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"Saving My Heart" is a song by British rock bandYes, written and produced by Yes vocalist and guitaristTrevor Rabin. It was the second single released from their 1991 "reunion" albumUnion, following "Lift Me Up". "Saving My Heart" peaked at number nine onBillboard'sMainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1991. "Saving My Heart" reached number nine on theBillboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It did not perform as well as "Lift Me Up", the lead single fromUnion (which topped the chart for six weeks) but outperformed competing Yes single "Make It Easy", a 1981 song released by Yes's old record label,Atlantic Records, to promote theYesyears boxed set. "Lift Me Up" and "Saving My Heart" were both issued byArista Records.[3]
TheUnion album was the result of the merger between Yes (featuring Rabin, bassistChris Squire, drummerAlan White, and keyboardistTony Kaye), andAnderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, featuring 1970's-era Yes membersJon Anderson (vocals),Steve Howe (guitars),Rick Wakeman (keyboards), andBill Bruford (drums).[4]
"Saving My Heart" was one of the four songs on the album to be written by the Rabin–Squire faction; the others were "Lift Me Up" (the lead-off single), "Miracle of Life", and "The More We Live", a song co-written by future Yes memberBilly Sherwood. Three of the four featured Anderson on vocals.[4]
According to Rabin, the song was originally planned as a collaboration withSupertramp vocalistRoger Hodgson.[5]Rabin felt the song, a "pop reggae tune" with a "bluesy guitar solo", did not work as a Yes song, but Anderson disagreed and wanted Yes to perform it.[5]
| Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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| USMainstream Rock (Billboard)[6] | 9 |
