I see what you all are saying about speech patterns, but how come many times singers "lose" their accents when they sing a song? Or at least they seem to.

Big Jim, I listened to that Yes song(s) and that is like, all very weird to me. But I understand what you're saying. There are many songs I have no idea what the words are but I love the sound, ya know?

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be,
he must be. -- Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist