Best and Worst prog lyrics

Kneel at the shrine, deceived by the wine.
How was the earth conceived? Infinite space.
Is there such a place? You must believe in the human race.
Can you believe, God makes you breathe.
Why did he lose six million Jews.
Touched by the wings, fears angel brings
Sad winter storm, grey autumn dawn
Who looks on life itself, who lights your way?
Only you can say. How can you just obey?

Edited by David_D - September 22 2023 at 12:14

I prophesy disaster wrote: .... but the Holocaust was an occurrence like nothing else in history.

Childlike Faith in Childhood's End

Maybe not the worst lyrics ever by a prog artist, but for Pink Floyd 'A New Machine' has got to be an all time low (for me).

I have always been here
I have always looked out from behind these eyes
It feels like more than a lifetime
Feels like more than a lifetime

Sometimes I get tired of the waiting
Sometimes I get tired of being in here
Is this the way that it's always been?
Could it ever have been different?

Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
Do you ever get tired of being in there?
Don't worry, nobody lives forever
Nobody lives forever

I will always be here
I will always look out from behind these eyes
It's only a lifetime
It's only a lifetime
It's only a lifetime

A Slow Descent into Reality by Evership features amazing heart wrenching lyrics.

I had arrived in life, no one would disagree
I lived the dream
Behold the wonders, born from deep inside of me
And so it seemed
Come and recognize
The poster child for Human Enterprise

But to my world came the winds of consequence
A compromise
Of friends that riches make had vanished at a glance
Before my eyes
As history has told
Kingdoms rise as easily as they fold

So I climbed my tower high
And I screamed into the sky
And with nothing left, I thought of letting go
Just letting go...

[...]

I used to seek for life in my ambition
But this had left me in a dark condition
And now I see
The creature can't transcend
The nature of the man
The Truth is found where all my strivings end

So I laid my banner down
And I knelt low to the ground
For I knew that it was time for letting go
Just letting go