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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2005 at 09:09
The funny thing is: I know these lines so well that I automatically read the right text. Did not even note typos.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2005 at 09:19

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Still a litle typo . It is not "abhangen" but "abhanden".

Not guilty this time! Yesterday I typed it, but today it was copy and paste!

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 08:50

who was dragged down by stone

 

dogs- pf

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 13:44

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."

That one's always done it for me.

I think I did a double-take kidna thing when I first heard that line...but then I realized it was just Ian Anderson so I didn't care.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 14:58

Well that's a very nice one. lovely lyrics you all wrote there (except the german which I do'nt understand at all).

I was'nt surprised many of you quoted "Dogs" cause it's amazing all the way. my lines from that masterpiece would be :

you got to be trusted by the people that you lie to

so that when they turn their backs on you

you'll get the chance to put the knife in.

and even more :

and you believe in heart everyone's a killer.

I'll add two more not yet mentioned :

everybody got to elevate from the norm ! - rush (vital signs, the closer of moving pictures).

the angels have fallen, they've all gone away. it's you that must find them by living each day - kansas (angels have fallen on monolyth)

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 16:47
Originally posted by atomicbomb atomicbomb wrote:

who was dragged down by stone

 

dogs- pf

wow!!!!

 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 16:49

THE SUN IS THE SAME, IN A RELATIVE WAY, BUT YOURE OLDER...

SHORTER OF BREATH , ADN ONE DAY, COSER TO DEATH!!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 17:15

Originally posted by omri omri wrote:

Well that's a very nice one. lovely lyrics you all wrote there (except the german which I do'nt understand at all).

Sorry everybody, I'll give you a translation of the poem by Rückert, that Mahler used in a song:

I have lost touch with the world
where once I wasted so much of my time.
Nothing has been heard of me for so long
that they might well think me dead.

Indeed, I hardly care
if the world thinks I am dead.
Neither can I deny it
for I am truly dead to the world

I am dead to the bustle of the world
and repose in a tranquil realm.
I live alone in my heaven,
in my loving, in my song.

Beautiful... The last four lines were the ones I initially quoted.

Before I have to call my lawyer, I copied this from my CD booklet: I'm not responsible for any wrong translation!!!

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 17:26
Not the best of translations, but then rhymed lyric is always difficult to translate. I'll give it a try though (I used to be a professional translator), but need some time for it (the problem is to translate the lyrics in a rhymed form without distorting the contents too much; it is possible though, I have done it before.) Expect my translation by tommorow.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 18:35

Thankyou Nacho !

Nice indeed .

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2005 at 01:45
Originally posted by nacho nacho wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

"Has the dawn ever seen your eyes,

have the days made you so unwise..."

I love those lines... Strange, but true. Piece of cake to find out where they came from, I guess...

Maybe we should ask threefates to help us...

Why?  Because the voice that sings it is just as beautiful as the words??    So lets cover a few more of those mind tingling lyrics...

- Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea.
  Then watch the ripples that unfold into me.
  My face spills so gently into your eyes,
  Disturbing the waters of our lives.

- Have you walked on the stones of years?
  When you speak, is it you that hears?
  Are your ears full? You can't hear anything at all.

- Clear the battlefield and let me see
  All the profit from our victory.
  You talk of freedom, starving children fall.
  Are you deaf when you hear the season's call?

  Were you there to watch the earth be scorched?
  Did you stand beside the spectral torch?
  Know the leaves of sorrow turned their face,
  Scattered on the ashes of disgrace.

  Every blade is sharp; the arrows fly
  We're the victims of your armies' lie,
  Where the blades of grass and arrows reign
  Then there will be very little sorrow,
  Very little pain.

 

-You and I are yesterday's answers

  the earth of the past come to flesh

  Eroded by time's rivers

  to the shapes we now possess

 

  Come share of my breath and my substance

  and mingle our streams and our times

  In bright infinite moments

  our reasons are lost in our eyes

 

- There's no end to my life,

  No beginning to my death:

  Death is life.

 

- Man alone; born of stone;

  Will stamp the dust of time

  His hands strike the flame of his soul;

 

- I give you the state of statesmen

  And the key to what motivates them

  On the left, on the right, on the nail

  Still I don't see a man in a mansion

  That an accurate pen won't puncture

  Go to town, go to hell, go to jail.

 

- So be closer to believing though your world is torn apart

  For a moment changes all things and to end is but to start

  And if your journey's unrewarded, may your God lift up your heart

  You are wind blown, but you are mine.

 

- A tattered cloak behind the throne

  It is unseen it is not known

  Behind this face I am alone

  I would give everything I own

  To touch you...

 

 

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2005 at 23:37
"eerie circles above the water"

"Machine, Machine Messiah"

"And the meek shall inherit the earth"

Among some of my favorites.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2005 at 00:01

Hi

Brand new to this forum. Love prog and dunno how I ever missed this great site and forum.

 

How about " The leaded window opened
  to move the dancing candle flame
And the first Moths of summer
  suicidal came."

Remember first time I heard that.

 

Cheers

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 08:47

^ I don't recall that...  Anbody else?

This made great impression to me:

"God!" sang the sea goat, "is always on both sides"

"Change" sang the sea goat, "is constant as the tides"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 09:01
Eetu, mukster's song was "Moths" by Jethro Tull.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 09:03
'Meet the new boss, same as the last boss'
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:19
The "innocents raped by napalm fire" verse of 21 Century Schizoid Man is always stuck in my head.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:28

Thanks, Wigu!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2005 at 02:17

" a salamander scurries into flames to be destroyed, imaginary creatures are trapped in earth on celuloid" (feel free to correct)

To be honest that's only what came to my head. toooooo many lyrics are memorable

"rain down, rain down, c'mon, RAIN down on me!!" for ex. Very simple, very bland= very easy to get stuck in head.

50 tonne angel falls to the earth...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 08:46

My favourite is from Billy Bragg's "Greetings to the New Brunette" -

"Here we are in our summer years, living on ice cream and chocolate kisses.

Would the leaves fall from the trees if I was your old man and you was my missus?"

This song also contains the immortal line

"How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?"

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