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Topic: In A Word

Posted By: marktheshark
Subject: In A Word
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 00:54

Aside from the singing, flute-playing, drumming and whatever, these guys DO write words, remember?. Who do think is the wordmaster? I thought about my buddy Frank, but I'm going for profound, not weird and funny as much as I love his lyrics.

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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 04:28

Jon Anderson for me please

Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole.
Dawn of thought transfered through moments of days undersearching earth
Revealing corridors of time provoking memories, disjointed but with purpose,
Craving penetrations offer links with the self instructors sharp
And tender love as we took to the air, a picture of distance.
Dawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
Expression, as only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
Late into corners, and we danced from the ocean.
Dawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
Won't to follow, only tunes of a different age.
As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.

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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 04:36

Oh no, not again!

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search.asp?KW=lyricist&SM=1&SI=TC&FM=42&OB=1 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search.asp?KW=lyricist& ;SM=1&SI=TC&FM=42&OB=1

Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 10:22

Matti wrote:

Oh no, not again!

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search.asp?KW=lyricist&SM=1&SI=TC&FM=42&OB=1 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search.asp?KW=lyricist& ;SM=1&SI=TC&FM=42&OB=1

OOPS! Should've done my research!

Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 19:28

Ian Anderson
Peter Gabriel
Roger Waters
Peter Sinfield

Jon Anderson

Greg Lake

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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 19:38

JON ANDERSON & PETE SINFIELD

Posted By: Philrod
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 20:13

Roger Waters

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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 11:23

Waters.

Sinfield is close.

I think Frank should be included. Many not the most profound, but memorable, satirical, and very soild for his entire career. At least worth a mention, IMO.

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Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 11:47

Fish is my favourite but given as he is absent from this poll my vote went to Roger Waters.

Posted By: omri
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 14:19

I would like to mention another missing one : Palmer-James who wrote the lyrics on the second KC era (Larks ..., Starless & ... and Red). He deserves it for the night watch alone !

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Posted By: nousommedusolei
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 19:52

Jon Anderson's lyrics are interesting, but I wish I knew what the heck he is talking about sometimes.

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Posted By: Tommy
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 20:09

JON ANDERSON! He creates lyrics are so mythical!

Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 20:47

nousommedusolei wrote:

Jon Anderson's lyrics are interesting, but I wish I knew what the heck he is talking about sometimes.

LOL!

You're right on the balls there! For 34 years I've loved that band and to this day I still think Jon's lyrics are just a bunch of gibberish. Except of course The Gates where he seems to actually have something to say. Although the old anti-war messages was already pretty much burned-out at that time. Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors, CSN and just about everybody else in the 60's already covered this ground. So Jon was a little bit outdated at this point here.

Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 21:35

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Jon Anderson for me please

It wouldnt let me Quote again, i had to copy and paste!
Anyway...ahem.......I just love the beginning of Revealing Science of God! Just reading it, I can hear it in my head.
Thanks Tux!

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Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 21:44

Peter Gabriel because he creates a lot of weird stories. I usually don't listen to lyrics but a lot of the time when they're telling a story I do.

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Posted By: Grimm
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 23:10

Pete Sinfield. Abstract lyric, some how making it memorable (Cirkus - King Crimson). Morbid lyric, makes it beautiful. (Still, You Turn Me On - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer)

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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 02:31

Where's Petrucci? he is the best prog poet, IMO. Just look at this:

'Love, just don't stare'
He used to say to me
every Sunday morning
The spider in the window
The angel in the pool
The old man takes the poison
Now the widow makes the rules

'So speak, I'm right here'
She used to say to me
not a word, not a word
Judas on the ceiling
the Devil in my bed
I guess Easter's never coming
So I'll just wait inside my head

Like a scream but sort of silent
living off my nightmares

Voices repeating me
'Feeling threatened?
We reflect your hopes and fears.'
Voices discussing me
'Others steal your thoughts
they're not confined
within your mind.'

Thought disorder
Dream control
Now they read my mind on the radio
But where was the Garden of Eden?

I feel elated
I feel depressed
Sex is death, Death is sex
Says it right here on my Crucifix

Like a scream but sort of silent
living off my nightmares

Voices protecting me
'Good behavior
brings the Savior
to his knees.'
Voices rejecting me
'Others steal your thoughts
they're not confined
to your own mind.'

I'm kneeling on the floor
staring at the wall
like the spider in the window
I wish that I could speak
Is there fantasy in refuge?
God in politicians?
Should I turn on my religion?
These demons in my head tell me to

I'm lying here in bed
Swear my skin is inside out
Just another Sunday morning

Seen my diary on the newsstand
Seems we've lost the truth to quicksand
It's a shame no one is praying
'Cause these voices in my head
keep saying...

'Love, just don't stare.'
'Reveal the Word when you're
supposed to'
Withdrawn and introverted
Infectiously perverted
'Being laughed at and confused
keeps us pleasantly amused
enough to stay.'

Maybe I'm just Cassandra fleeting
Twentieth century Icon bleeding
Willing to risk Salvation
to escape from isolation

I'm witness to redemption
heard you speak but never listened
Can you rid me of my secrets?
Deliver us from Darkness?

Voices repeating me
'Feeling threatened?
We reflect your hopes and fears.'
Voices discussing me
Don't expect your own Messiah
This neverworld which you desire
is only in your mind.

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