Love songs by Prog bands - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Caravan - "Love to Love You"

I dreamed of all the magic things that be

When we'd ride to a dock on bended knee
But you'd just smile and gently shake your head
And put a hole through me so I was dead
Oh, I'd fall down and I was left alone
With a feeling of you still that was my own

...................

A man came through the wall and stood by me
Complete with bag of nuts and fancy free
He said without a tonal fleeting glance
"I'd like to get deep down inside your pants"
How you opened up his head and smiled
And rubbish from your mouth you ticked inside

..................

(from the album In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971))

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Snicolette wrote:

Hands down, my favourite prog love song is "Blue Angel," by David Cousins.

According to Cousins, the song is about the Soldiers And Sailors Monument that was outside his hotel room in Indianapolis that's bathed in blue light at night. Maybe he was in love with the marble.

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dr wu23 wrote:

I think 2 obvious ones are From The Beginning and Still You Turn Me On by ELP.....at least I think they are 'love songs'....as well as these two that seem like love songs to me.

Wondering Aloud-Tull

Autumn- Strawbs

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Greenslade - "Sunkissed You're Not"

You know you're getting very hard to please help me find the way
I'll whip right out and get the things you need and let the devil pay

I need you you need pain. I want you but you want pain

You know I'm not a Mr. Universe so what do you expect
I do my exercises every day no wonder I feel wrecked

I need you, you need pain. I want you but you want pain

And I don't want to lose what I've found again, no

Sunkissed you're not, devilkissed you are
I've tried to reach you but you're out too far
Sunkissed you're not, masochist you are
I'd like to make you but you're out too far
I'd like to reach you but you're out too far
I've tried to make you but you're out too far

.......................

(from the album Bedside Manners are Extra (1973))

Edited by David_D - March 13 2022 at 06:22

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Wondr'ing Aloud was already mentioned, so here's another Tull love song...

And perhaps the most ambiguous love song ever sung in 37 seconds...

Edited by The Dark Elf - March 12 2022 at 16:56

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

Hands down, my favourite prog love song is "Blue Angel," by David Cousins.

"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp

Couple of favorites:

Peter Hammill - Alice (Letting Go) - one of the most intense breakup songs I’ve heard

Yes - Give Love Each Day - a sincere and happy love song from the Magnification album. I could see someone having this as their wedding song if it wasn’t 7 1/2 minutes long.

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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

-Kehlog Albran

This is a bit special love song but anyway: Big smile

Frank Zappa - "Dinah-Moe Humm"

I couldn't say where she's coming' from,
But I just met a lady named Dinah-Moe Humm

She stroll on over, say look here, bum,
I got a forty dollar bill say you can't make me cum
(Y'jes can't do it)

She made a bet with her sister who's a little bit dumb
She could prove it any time all men was scum

I don't mind that she called me a bum,
But I knew right away she was really gonna cum
(So I got down to it)

I whipped off her bloomers 'n stiffened my thumb
An' applied rotation on her sugar plum

I poked 'n stroked till my wrist got numb
But I still didn't hear no Dinah-Moe Humm,

.................

(from the album Over-nite Sensation (1973))

Edited by David_D - March 13 2022 at 06:02

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

I think 2 obvious ones are From The Beginning and Still You Turn Me On by ELP.....at least I think they are 'love songs'....as well as these two that seem like love songs to me.

Wondering Aloud-Tull

Autumn- Strawbs

Edited by dr wu23 - March 12 2022 at 13:02

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

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Agree with both of You and add the following one :

Peter Hammill A Way out from his eponym 1990 CD

Out of joint, out of true, out of love,
Out of the blue, out of order, out of orbit,
Out of control,
Out of touch, out of line, out of sync
And out of time, out of gas, out of tread,
Out of road.
Out of date, out of stock, out of use -
Out, out dammed spot!
You want out, you want out of it for good.
Out of the running, out of the game,
Out on your feet, clear out of range,
Out of context, out of contact,
Out of the woods.
Out, out, looking for a way out,
No straws are left to cling to;
Out, out, going for the fade-out...
but what do you fade into?
Out on the town, out for laughs,
Out of service, out to grass,
Out of mourning, our of purdah,
Out of bail,
Out of kilter, out grace,
Out to get out of this place,
Out of this world, out and out
Beyond the plae.
Right out of character, out of sympathy,
So far out upon a limb
you're out of your tree....
Out of breath, out of tune, out of your head

And out of view, down and out,
Out for the count, or is it just for revenge?
Out of sight, out of mind, leave it out,
Leave it behind out of reach
Of all family, all friends
Out, out, going for the bale-out,
No parachute above you.
Out, out, you'll not feel the fall-out
...I wish I'd said "I love you

Edited by mellotronwave - March 12 2022 at 10:36