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Topic: Best lyrical phrase

Posted By: kiwi
Subject: Best lyrical phrase
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 20:38

Good lyrics can be powerful/funny/inspiring. Here are a few great phrases from some great songs to start the ball rolling. (I would have put this into a poll but I couldn't find the right button Embarrassed

"There's no one left alive it must be a draw" - Genesis
"Don't surround yourself in yourself" - Yes
"I can't see the lines I used to think I could read between" - Eno
"Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died" - Pink Floyd
"With a pair of zircon encrusted tweezers in my hand every other wrangler would think I am mighty grand" - Frank Zappa
"Told my girl I had to forget her, had to buy me a new carburettor" -queen (not prog sorry)

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We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high.. (Baha'u'llah)

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 20:48

"well you wore out your welcome with random precision"

Couldn't resist that one Wink

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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 20:49

"The examining body examined her body." Jethro Tull

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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 20:55

"Cracked forgotten statues we are strangled in the undergrowth,
Lost in ancient magic we are sucked in by the undertow,
Nothing really matters, we are motion, we are wonderful flow."
(From Peter Hammill's "Now Lover", a song about orgasm).

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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

Posted By: ES335
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 21:08

In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky

And they stand there

Posted By: Thomicas
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:08

"All you tocuh and all you see is all your life will ever be" - Pink Floyd, Breathe

"What God wants, God gets, God help us all" - Roger Waters, What God Wants (Part 1 & 2)

"I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul" - Bob Dylan, Masters of War

"Share bride failing star
Care-line
Care-line
Care-line
Care-line driving me
Shirley, Shirley, Shirley own
Share bride failing star" - David Bowie, Subterraneans

"Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man" - King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Man

"No tears to cry
No feelings left
This species has amused itself to death" - Roger Waters, Amused To Death

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I tried to catch my eye, but I looked the other way

Posted By: Hat of Truth
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:01

"Can you tell me where my country lies?
Said the unifaun to his true loves eyes.
It lies with me! cried the queen of maybe
for her merchandise, he traded in his prize."
- Dancing With the Moonlit Knight, Genesis

"So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain."
- Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

"Vad är ni för underligt ting
som talar om vilsenhet?"
- Änglagård, Ifrån Klarhet Till Klarhet

"Now theyre planning the crime of the century
Well what will it be?"
- Supertramp, Crime of the Century

Amongst many, to many to be written down.

Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:17

I really enjoy the chorus from Genesis' Seven Stones:
"Despair that tires the world brings the old man laughter.
The laughter of the world only grieves him,
believe him,
The old man's guide is chance."

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The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes
Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie

Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:57

The line "the old man's guide is chance" seems to be a comment of Einstein's famous phrase "Jedenfalls bin ich fest davon überzeugt, dass der Alte nicht würfelt" ("Anyway, I am totally convinced the old man does not roll a die"; Einstein in a letter to physicist Max Born), by the way.

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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

Posted By: sean
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 02:00

there's so many songs to choose from. i'll try to pick later, but all i know is that it will have been written by peter hammill.

Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 04:58

Learning that we're only immortal ...For a limited time

NEIL PEART

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Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today.

Posted By: Hat of Truth
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 14:16

If I get to post a non-prog song, but I love this:
"I never thought I'd need so many people"
From Five Years, David Bowie.

Posted By: Stream
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 15:21

"Together we stand, divided we fall"
- Hey You, Pink Floyd

Posted By: RGBlackmore
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 15:37

Also from Bowie, one of the most powerfull phrases to me:

"Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do..."

Posted By: Sinusoid
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 22:08

Here's a tidbit from "Karn Evil 9"

"I'll be there, I'll be there, I will be there

To heal their sorrow, to beg and borrow

Fight tomorrow."

Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 22:28

"Mankind is a plague" always cranks me up jajajaja... its by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum by the way

" If there were no rewards to reap,
loving embrace to see me through,
this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked awaaay by now." Maynard James Kennan, Tool ...who, by the way, is the BEST lyrics writer ever if you ask me

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"You want me to play what, Robert?"

Posted By: Real Paradox
Date Posted: January 20 2008 at 12:22

"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream?
It's alright we told you what to dream." -By:Pink Floyd

I love it...

And I fear the day this line will be told by machines to us human beings

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What is This?
It is what keeps us going...

Posted By: Jorvik
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 11:21

"And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghost, hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

Mind you, I think the whole lyric is perfect, not a wasted word.

"Strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me..."
Pink Floyd, Echoes

"No-one told you when to run – you missed the starting gun... And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking, coming around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death."
Pink Floyd, Time

"So I opened my door to my enemies and asked could we wipe the slate clean, but they tell me to please go and f*** myself, you know you just can't win"
Pink Floyd, Lost For Words

"We got warehouses of butter, we got oceans of wine, we got famine when we need it, we got designer crime. We got Mercedes, we got Porsche, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce. Yeah, we got choice"
Roger Waters, It's A Miracle

"Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope, preacher or poet, who was it wrote 'give any one species too much rope and they'll f*** it up'?
Roger Waters, Too Much Rope

"If you can carry it out, you can take it away. If you can carry it out, you can take it away. If you can buy it, it can be bought. If you can buy it, it can be stolen. If you can break it, it's already broken"
Marillion, Interior Lulu

"A wise man once said a flower is only a sexual organ, beauty is cruelty and evolution. A wise man once said that everything can be explained with mathematics. He had denied his feminine side, now where is the wisdom in that?"
Marillion, This Is The 21st Century

I don't agree with Marillion's views on science, but I still think this is a great lyric.

"And it is as it is, and we take as we find, always next season's buds on the bough, but I'll never find a better time, hard though it is to allow, no I'll never find a better time to be alive than now"
Peter Hammill, A Better Time

I don't actually own this, my brother played it to me years ago and it left a big impression.

"I can see we are pilgrims and so must walk this road, unknown in our purpose, alone but not worthless and home ever calling us on. We've been waiting here for so long, all of our hands joined in hope, holding the weight on the rope, all of us pilgrims"
Van der Graaf Generator, Pilgrims

I can't type those words without hearing the music and... just, WOW! I don't normally go in for uplifting music, but this one creeps in under the radar and then nukes you. Repeatedly.

"The wall on which the prophets wrote is cracking at the seams. Upon the instruments of death the sunlight brightly gleams. Knowledge is a deadly friend if no-one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools"
King Crimson, Epitaph

As true now as it was then.

"Confusion will be my epitaph, as I crawl a cracked and broken path. If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow we'll be crying, yes I fear tomorrow we'll be crying"
King Crimson, Epitaph

"Sundown, dazzling day, gold through my eyes. But my eyes turned within only see starless and bible black"
King Crimson, Starless

"The dream machine's on speed, my head's up in the clouds. We met up on the ledge and I could read your mind. And though things fall asleep, nothing ever dies. I caught it on the bound and now we float—hands outstretched–along the river"
Anekdoten, Ricochet

Thanks to whoever it was who quoted this in their review of the album here on PA for opening my ears to this one.

Finally, for the time being, the one below in my signature, Kung Bore by Änglagård. According to anglagard.net, this translates as, "In the light from my lantern I see that shadow of sorrow, in dreams that have been extinguished from a life that has had it's time. I cannot stand and watch while we flee realities and truths where morality is fantasy". But I prefer hearing them in Swedish.

As I said in another thread, lyrics are as important to me as the music.

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I ljuset från min lykta
ser jag skuggan utav sorg
drömmar som har slocknat
ifrån ett liv som haft sin tid

Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 11:43

"My father was an eagle with two wings wide as sails,
my mother was the West wind witch with grasping fingernails.
She lured him from his eerie with her twittering device,
she kept him in a golden cage and fed him field mice".
(Robert Calvert, "Hero with One Wing")

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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 11:56

"Kick me Hardy.
Without one sweet push from your shine covered boot,
I don't think, I just know I'll be grounded forever
More over turn me. You can hardly miss me,
I'm the one face down in the mud on the ground.
I'll be stuck here forever, unless you come over and
Kick me Hardy."

Team Spirit, Robert Wyatt

"What is left of your dream ?
Just the words on your stone
A man who learned how to teach
Then forgot how to learn"

White Man, Queen

"You are afraid--embarrassed too
No one has ever said such a thing to you
Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulder
Face like ice--a little bit colder
Saying to you--"you can not do that, it breaks
All the rules you learned in school"
I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three"

Triad, Jefferson Airplane

"Can't get out, even for a moment:
might be hit by a passing car."

Orthenthian St. Pt. II, Van Der Graaf Generator

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https://japanskipremijeri.bandcamp.com/album/perkusije-gospodine" rel="nofollow - Percussion, sir!

Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 12:21

"Confusion will be my epitaph" - King Crimson
"The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd have something more to say" - Pink Floyd
"And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us" - Rush
"Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand/Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in Had" - Rush
"Time's too short to be sad, wishing things you've never had" - Caravan
"My energy is spent at last, and my armour is destroyed/And I've used up all my weapons, and I'm helpless and bereaved" - Blue Oyster Cult

Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 12:31

"I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral,
to swing on the spiral,
to swing on the spiral of our divinity still be a human,
Spiral down. . . "

Tool - Lateralus.

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http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 12:38

A couple that have preceded me have already quoted some Rush lines which I quite enjoy but my all time favorite is "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".

And then of course there is this creepy ditty from Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull

Sitting on the park bench --
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot is running down his nose --
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Aqualung

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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 12:39

Id have to agree with the post that claimed Maynard Keenan was one of the greatest lyricists. i was trying to write down my favorite lyrics off the top of my head and almost half ended up being tool song.

"Before you point your finger you should know that i'm the man,
well im a man and your a man and hes a man as well so you can point that f*cking finger up your a**."

-Hooker with a Penis. probably not the most polite song to talk about by the rythm of his words in that song, the syncopation fits so perfect. Tool is all about rythm, the guitar, the incredible bass, the drumwork of Danny Carey, its all overwhelminly rythmic. no guitar leads, only rythm. Maynard is no different. the lyrics work towards that total sum rythm of the song.

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http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 13:26

Another Peart-ism, from a Rush album that isn't well-liked on PA is from the title track from Roll the Bones. "Why are we here? Because we're here. Roll the Bones." A phrase that I use on occasion in real life.

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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 13:29

Simple. =) "Worms appeared, and truth brushed them away."

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL

Posted By: EnglishAssassin
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 13:55

"For long you live and hight you fly,
And smiles you give and tears you cry,
All you touch and all you see,
Is all your life will ever be."

Pink Floyd - Breathe (As if anyone wouldn't know)

"Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream,
Wave after wave of demented avengers,
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream!"

Pink Floyd - Sheep

"What you own in your own kingdom,
What you do is your own glory,
What you love is your own power,
What you live is your own story!"

Rush - Something for Nothing

Posted By: Pinkk
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 14:03

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.

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http://last.fm/user/pinkkfloydd - My Last.fm

Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: January 23 2008 at 10:47

BaldFriede wrote:

"My father was an eagle with two wings wide as sails,
my mother was the West wind witch with grasping fingernails.
She lured him from his eerie with her twittering device,
she kept him in a golden cage and fed him field mice".
(Robert Calvert, "Hero with One Wing")

Quality! I love Calvert's lyrics:

"Copernicus had those Renaissance ladies crazy about his telescope" (Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm)

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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."

Posted By: 3.1415926535897
Date Posted: January 23 2008 at 21:54

Jorvik wrote:

"And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghost, hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

This used to be one of my favorite also. However, upon closer examination, isn't this implying that trading your heroes for ghosts is the same as exchanging hot ashes for trees or hot air for a cool breeze? Maybe someone who is better at grammar could correct me, but to me it seems like a flaw, and I squirm every time I hear that line now.

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Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened - Winston Churchill

Posted By: SilverSean
Date Posted: January 23 2008 at 22:04

Through the fish eyed lens of tear stained eyes,
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time.

--Roger Waters (The Final Cut)

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Hold on to the Dream...

Posted By: Jorvik
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 09:03

3.1415926535897 wrote:

Jorvik wrote:

"And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts, hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

I remember thinking that shortly after I first heard it, over 16 years ago. On the face of it, it does seem to be a contradiction and the simplest explanation probably is that it's a mistake or to make the rhythm or other construction aspects work.

Maybe you ought to have added it to the annoying lyrics thread before it got locked Smile

However, I find it a little bit unlikely that Waters would be so careless. Another way to look at it would be that he is challenging assumptions – is swapping your heroes and getting ghosts in return really a bad thing? Can you really tell heaven from hell? Or is the grass always greener (or browner?) in the other one to where you currently are, whilst to a neutral observer they're the same? Is a cool breeze always necessarily better than hot air? Is change good or bad?

I consider myself a pedant, so maybe I did ought to be revolting LOL

. Instead I'm just making up excuses for why it doesn't bother me. Sorry to be off topic. Embarrassed

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I ljuset från min lykta
ser jag skuggan utav sorg
drömmar som har slocknat
ifrån ett liv som haft sin tid

Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 09:48

Lots...This are the ones I can think of right now:

1. There's an angel standing in the sun, and he's crying with a loud voice,
"This is the supper of the mighty One",
The Lord of Lords,
King of Kings,
Has returned to lead His children home,
To take them to the new Jerusalem.

Genesis- Supper’s Ready

2. Once carried through the current
And being swept away
The king is in the closet
He's hiding from today
And though he owns all fortunes
This room is where he'll stay
And his world is filled with darkness, turning grey

Kansas – Closet Chronicle

3. Stalactites, stalagmites
Shut me in, lock me tight.
Lips are dry, throat is dry.
Feel like burning, stomach churning,
Im dressed up in a white costume
Padding out leftover room.
Body stretching, feel the wretching
In the cage
Get me out of the cage!

Genesis - In the Cage

4. The Poet and the painter casting shadows on the water --as the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea.The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other --as the failing light illuminates the mercenary's creed.The home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling --but the master of the house is far away.The horses stamping -- their warm breath cloudingin the sharp and frosty morning of the day.And the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword.

Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick

5.      The gaoler binds his hands and put the blindfold to his eyes 
He leads him through the door before the crowd 
The hangman sees his victim and all blood drains from his face 
He sees his younger brother standing proud 

The hangman tries to protest but he's ordered to proceed 
His trembling hands begin to take the strain 
His eyes are blind with streaming tears 
He cries for all to hear 


“Forgive me God, we hang him in Thy name!” 
The Strawbs – The Hangman and the Papist

 All very powerful.

 Iván

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Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 11:50

"You kill what you fear, and you fear what you don't understand"

Genesis - Guide Vocal/Duke's Travels

"Better think a while, or I may never think again..."

Genesis - Undertow

"There is no pain, you are receeding

A distant ships smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying"

Pink Floyd

"When we arrive, Sons and Daughters

We'll make our lives on the water

We'll build our walls aluminum

We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon...

Here all the bombs fade away..."

The Decemberists

"Burn slowly the candle of life"

The Moody Blues

"Live by sword, and you shall die so"

"I am the joy you really pay for, but which comes completely free"

Van der Graaf Generator

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Signature Writers Guild on strike

Posted By: Poser
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 18:01

And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls
I only know the meaning of sight and that's all
and that's nothing.
The Sleepwalkers - Van Der Graaf Generator

Or any other Hammill lyrics.

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Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: January 25 2008 at 15:54

Here is my favorite:

And my soul has been kissed, just because you exist. -Wind At My Back (Spock's Beard)

Posted By: marcinz
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 06:22

" Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Tool - Lateralus

"Young man says "you are what you eat" - eat well.
Old man says "you are what you wear" - wear well.
You know what you are, you don't give a damn;
bursting your belt that is your homemade sham."
Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight

Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 12:38

I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last...

- Rush - Ghost of a chance

I like that one...and Peart is an infinite source of things just like that one.

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http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh

Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 14:35

"And though dark is the highway,
and the peak's distance breaks my heart,
for I never shall see it, still I play my part,
believing that what waits for us
is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past...
In the death of mere humans life shall start!"
Childlike Faith in Childhood's End - VDGG

Depends how you interpret it really, but to me those are very moving lyrics about life after death, determination and hope.

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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."

Arnold Schoenberg

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 06:13

An embarrassment of riches when it comes to prog lyrics. On the sillier side:
"Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham...)" Zappa

Maybe some weird relation to the Moonlit Knight lyrics quoted above. LOL

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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Posted By: akercocke76
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 02:05

1."All the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players" (Rush, LIMELIGHT; that whole song is a huge lyrical hook, indeed)

2. "There's Winston Churchhill dressed in drag; he used to be British flag, plastic bag, what a drag!" (Genesis; SUPPER'S READY; Gabriel always did have a way with words.)

3. "Hear the calling of a miracle; in the presence of the world; now we hold the right to re-arrange how the stories can be heard..." (Yes, THE CALLING; Great tune with excellent lyrics, imo.)

4. "Life is no more assuring than love (It's time to take the time)...there are no answers from voices above (it's time to take the time...)" (Dream Theater, TAKE THE TIME; interesting and very thoughtful lyric on their BEST record.)

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In the beginning is the future, and the future is at hand...

Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 12:55

My smile is stuck
I cannot go back t' yer Frownland

-Captain Beefheart

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Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 15:01

High as a wave
But I'll rise on up off the ground.
You are the light and the way
They'll only read about
I only pray heaven knows
When to lift you out

10000 days in the fire is long enough.
You're going home...

You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fist at the gates saying,
"I have come home now!"

Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father,
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.

"It's time now!
My time now!
Give me my
Give me my wings!"...

Tool - 10,00 DAYS: Wings Part 2

'as a disembodied spirit I a dead, and yet unborn, I have passed on to olympus as was told in tales of old, to the city of immortals marble white and purest gold,' - rush, cygnus x 1 book 2

'His claim was phrased quite simply, yet he never voiced it loud, I am he the chosen One,' - Genesis , One for the vine

'You're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death,' - Floyd, Time

'An angel on a harley pulls across to meet a fellow rolling stone, puts his bike upon his stands leans back and extends a scarred and greasy hand,' - Roger Waters - 501 TPACOH

'The Weaver in the web that he made,' -ELP, Tarkus

'O boy! running man is out of death,' - Genesis - Anyway

'how wonderful to be so profound,
when everything you are is dying underground.'- Genesis - Anyway

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Let the maps of war be drawn !

http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/

Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 07:39

Ivan got there before me with these two gems:

Firstly, the closing section of 'Supper's Ready'

There's an angel standing in the sun,
and he's crying with a loud voice,
"This is the supper of the mighty One",
The Lord of Lords,
King of Kings,
Has returned to lead His children home,
To take them to the new Jerusalem.

And this one from Tull's 'Thick As A Brick'

The Poet and the painter
casting shadows on the water
as the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea

One which always sounds a chord with me is from Marillion's 'Script...'

In the silence of my shame
the mute that sang the siren's song
has gone solo in the game
but the game is over

Yet another nod to Peter Hammill (well, VDGG) I daresay it won't be the last in this thread:

No time now for contrition:
the time for that's long past.
The walls are thin as tissue
and if I talk I'll crack the glass.
So I only think on how it might have been,
locked in silent monologue, in silent scream

And finally for now, back to Roger Waters:

I was just a child then,
Now I'm only a man

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 08:17

Mr Antonio "Toni" Pagliuca (Le Orme):

1. From "Sguardo verso il cielo" (Looking at the Sky)

La colpa d'esser vivo e non poter cambiare / come un ramo secco abbandonato / che tenta inutilmente di fiorire

(The guilt of being alive and not able to change / like an abandoned dry branch / which tries in vain to bloom)

2. From "Figure di cartone" (Cardboard Silouhettes - about a demented woman in an asylum)

Stringi forte al petto il tuo cuscino / e sul muro bianco si disegna / il profilo di una donna con il suo bambino

(You hold your pillow tight to your breast / and the silouhette of a woman with her child / appears on the white wall)

3. From "La Fabbricante D'angeli" (The Angel Maker - about illegal abortion)

Sul ventre già fiorito di un'ingenua ragazzina / La luna si ferisce passando i vetri rotti

(On the already flourished womb of an innocent girl / the moon hurts itself by passing the broken glasses)

4. From "Regina al Troubadour" (Queen at the Troubadour - about a runaway girl)

Regina al Troubadour, regina della neve / Son tutti attorno a te perché non sai dir no / Distribuisci a ognuno il bene più vicino / facile, facile

(Queen at the Troubadour, queen of the snow / everybody's around you, because you can't say "no" / You give out to everybody / the closest at hand gift / so easy, so easy)

5. From "Un Angelo" (An Angel - difficult to say what this could be about!)

Ho conosciuto un angelo / mi stava accanto da sempre / Da dove viene non so / Forse è sceso da un mondo lontano / Ora che tu sei qui ritrovo la forza di continuare / di andare avanti

Giardini di carillon, di suoni gentili / profumo di miele, di terra bagnata

Annuncio la mia gioia / ho un raggio di sole che mi riscalda

(I've known an Angel / he's always been close to me / I don't know where he's from / Maybe he came down from a faraway world / Now that you're here I find again the strength to hold on / to go on

Gardens of carillons / of gentle sounds / smelling like honey / like wet ground

I announce my joy / I've got a sunbeam keeping me warm)

6. From "Calipso" (a comparison between Ulysses and a migrant)

Poiché riconosco la tua canzone / e il disegno sul tuo telaio, a te rivolgo, dolce Calipso / questo mio pensiero

Non sono un'austera divinità / ma solo un uomo che sta seguendo la via / illuminata dalla tua immensa statua

Dona libertà per il tuo amato eroe / accolto e poi nutrito / ora è molto triste sai / rivuole la sua terra / anche se la notte era tanto calda sotto la bandiera di stelle

(Since I recognise your song / and the drawing on your loom / I dedicate to you, sweet Calipso / this thought of mine

I'm not an austere god / but only a man who's following the way / lit by your huge statue

Give freedom to your beloved hero / you welcome and nourished / Now he's very sad, you know / he wants back his own land / Even if the night was so warm under the star spangled Flag)

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Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 13:59

Said the straight man, to the late man, "where have you bean?"

....lololol

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 20:21

lentils

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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 22:43

PROG

Pink Floyd - Dogs: and its to late, to lose the weight, you used to need to throw around, so have a good drown as you go down alone, dragged down by the stone

Soft Machine - Moon in June: The sun shines here all summer, Its nice cause you can get quite brown, Ah, but I miss the rain, And I wish that I were home again

Tool - Lateralus: Black then white are, all i see in my infancy. Red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. Lets me see.

NOT PROG

Pinback - Loro: and the ripped ones say goodbye, while the others meet, attached somewhere, at least they shared, and the ripped ones never collide, while the others, while the others meet attached somewhere

(also check the sig)

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who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob

Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 26 2008 at 01:11

paolo.beenees wrote:

Mr Antonio "Toni" Pagliuca (Le Orme):