Open Your Eyes is the seventeenth studio album by the English rock band Yes, released in November 1997 by Eagle Records in the UK and by Beyond Music in the US.

Yes' new management company suggested adding a couple of songs originally written for Squire and Sherwood's other band Conspiracy to help build up material for a new Yes studio album.

Its lead single, "Open Your Eyes", reached number 33 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart which was followed by a second, "New State of Mind".

[4][5] Band talks with their then-manager Jon Brewer broke down, leaving Anderson to retreat to Hawaii and White and Howe returning home to Seattle and England, respectively.

As development progressed, Yes secured new management in mid-1997 with the Left Bank Organization who devised an 18-month plan for the band, which the group approved as they were in need of some direction and organisation.

Included in the music submitted were songs by Conspiracy, which Left Bank suggested would sound stronger if they were reworked for a Yes studio album, leading to Squire and Sherwood putting forward "Open Your Eyes" and "Man in the Moon" for development.

[7] Matters were complicated further when Castle Communications learned of the band's intentions to tour, and pushed for the release of Keys to Ascension 2 near the same time as Open Your Eyes.

[7] The songwriting process started with Sherwood mailing tapes of early versions of "Wonderlove", "Love Shine", "New State of Mind", and "Universal Garden" to Anderson who liked them and recorded vocals from his studio in Hawaii and returned them.

[11][10][9][6] Howe resisted the idea as the upcoming Keys to Ascension 2 already had fresh studio material on it in the "classic" Yes style, and considered the new songs being developed as too pop-oriented and commercial,[4] yet agreed to be involved as he knew the band needed to keep going.

Howe claimed that Anderson and himself had little collaborative input, saying the two were "squeezed, pushed, undermixed and not allowed to develop and change that music," and added: "So we went into that almost like a group blind-folded, because we started doing [the album].

Despite being a more gentle, acoustic ballad, Anderson said of its meaning: "It's basically all about past managers who could be difficult sometimes ... As the song evolved ... it seemed to be more about higher consciousness of the audience and it seemed like someone was looking down on us to make sure everything was okay".

[20] Yes released two singles from the album, "Open Your Eyes" and "New State of Mind", the former reaching number 33 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

He listed "Open Your Eyes", "Universal Garden", "Fortune Seller", and "Wonderlove" as among the album's stronger songs, with "No Way We Can Lose" and "Man in the Moon" being weaker ones.

[14] Stereogum ranked Open Your Eyes 32 out of 33 in their countdown of Yes' discography, saying it "is slathered in the most dismally begging-for-airplay keyboards imaginable, and written at a child's level of musical sophistication.