Love songs by Prog bands - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I just mentioned this Marillion tune in another thread (poll). This is a beautiful love song, tinged with melancholy:

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Marillion - "Script for a Jester's Tear"

So here I am once more
In the playground of the broken hearts
One more experience, one more entry
In a diary, self penned
Yet another emotional suicide
Overdosed on sentiments and pride

Too late to say I love you
Too late to restage the play
Abandoning the relics
In my playground of yesterday

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

(from the album Script for a Jester's Tear (1983))

Edited by David_D - March 16 2022 at 15:29

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Another one of troublesome love, and that looks almost to be the only kind of love I can find in my collection

which might indicate that this kind of love has been much in focus in Progressive Rock - even okay,

my own taste has been mostly to the more dark Prog, so that could be the explanation, as well.

Catapilla - "Promises"

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

Promises you made to me,
of freedom love and luxury,
are now part of an history's back numbers.
The liberties that you are taking
Ensure that people's shaking,
would eventually whip us from this slumber.
And nobody says,
and no one's secure,
and within I just crashed the lights out,
any fool's a madness, that's for sure,
and tellin' the silence of life,
has been falling to the ground.
I'll see you around.

This soul I see, you think you're clever,
living in your vile endeavour,
the promises you did to me were never ending.
The blood of us is yet unborn,
the body's smashed and bruised and torn.
These answers went when you just keep on sending.
Now you try to justify,
you keep things to me.
I write you with a mind
too of humanity,
but something in the context of your life,
that deadly cuts off every power.

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

(from the selftitled debut album (1971))

Edited by David_D - March 16 2022 at 15:14

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David_D wrote:

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))

One of my all time favorite albums .............

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

Uriah Heep - "Shadows of Grief"

You're looking at me
Like I must be mad
But I've been through all this before
You'll kick and kick until I'm down
So don't think you're
Comin' past my door, oh no

You think that love is such a pain
So the more it hurts
The more you laugh
Just take it and
Shake it up and down
Till you think you've had enough
But you won't get enough of my love

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

(from the album Look at Yourself (1971))

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