Heart of the Sunrise Heart of the Sunrise "Heart of the Sunrise" is a progressive rock song by British band Yes. It is the closing track on their fourth album, 1971's "Fragile". The compositional credits go to Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, and Chris Squire, though keyboardist Rick Wakeman contributed some uncredited sections. The song eventually rose to become the band's fourth most-played song, and appears on "Yessongs", "Classic Yes", "", and many other studio and live retrospectives. According to Anderson, the song is about being lost in the city. This was explained on many tours. In the "Big Generator" (1987) tour, Anderson said that
The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album) and writes that "The Fragile" uses funk bass lines, North African minor-key modalities, and the treatment of tonality by Symbolist composers like Debussy. The album also features several distorted guitar parts which Powers suggests that fans can enjoy. Rob Sheffield observes a "prog-rock vibe" akin to Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall" and feels that "The Fragile" is similarly "a double album that vents ... alienation and misery into paranoid studio hallucinations, each track crammed with overdubs until there's no breathing room". Described by Reznor as a sequel to "The Downward Spiral"—an album with a plot detailing the destruction of