Name the Lyrical Passage

Weezer

Only In Dreams

 

"I see myself a hero as one wing falls away
And the dial approaches zero in a spiralling display.
My past life flashes feverishly and lives I did not lead,
Like the time I was a hero of a weird outlandish breed."

Edited by BaldJean

We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust ...  - Was this the question? RUSH, something from Grace Under Pressure.

"Through the grief, through the pain, our flowers need each other's rain"

Isn't that one Forsaken Gardens off of Peter Hammill's The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage?

He lived with her for seven years,
told everyone how big his feelings were.
Then one day he up and disappeared.
How could he play such a trick on her?
It was a real slap in the face.

He knew she was so afraid of scandal
that he could count on her not to tell
that he hadn't only left her high and dry and big with child,
but had taken all the jewelry as well -
it was a real slap in the face.

She listened to his lies as she lay in his embrace,
he could only love a woman in the heat of the chase -
it was a real, a real, a real slap in the face.

They found her in pyjamas, wandering the streets
trapped like a rat in a maze.
She gave birth in a cell on a bunk with no sheets
to a daughter they told her wasn't fit to breathe -
it was a real slap in the face.

And hers is not an isolated case,
when it's least expected, anytime, anyplace
someone's bound to get a real, a real, a real slap in the face.

Until you spoken to, don't speak, turn the other cheek
when you're slapped in the face and it hurts,
and if you're feeling to weak, remember the meek
will inherit the earth.

The swindler hit on someone else and soon they settled down,
she was lonely, rich and gullible - a fool.
One day she walked out onto her patio and found
the honey-tounge deceiver at the bottom of the pool -
it was a real slap in the face.

Well, the story doesn't have a happy ending,
I've said all I've got to say.
The characters are begging: "Don't abandon us like this!
What have we ever done to be treated this way?
It's a real slap in the face!"


Edited by BaldJean

Mategra wrote:  "Real Slap in the Face" by Peter Blegvad from his album King Strut and other Stories (an over-looked classic!) I forgot one verse: "Until you spoken to, don't speak, turn the other cheek when you're slapped in the face and it hurts, and if you're feeling to weak, remember the meek will inherit the earth"

Syzygy wrote: She said 'I'll join your company I'm not afraid or weak I will bind my breasts and crop my hair And speak low the way a boy would speak'

Another good song by Peter Blegvad. He is certainly overlooked on lyric polls.

^ Pink Floyd - Echos 

Lemmings - VDGG

next...

Be quick be ready
Be sure and be smart
No need the energy wasted
I've dreamed of music
That comes from the heart
As tho' the eagle has landed

T.Rox wrote: Lemmings - VDGG next... Be quick be ready Be sure and be smart No need the energy wasted I've dreamed of music That comes from the heart As tho' the eagle has landed

IRON MAIDEN - Be quick or be dead?
SAXON - The eagle has landed?
I don't know

Tool- Eulogy

Over she cries through the rope ends and silk ties.  Beautiful life escaping her young blue eyes.
But life holds her hand, refusing to let go leaving her breathing on the floor.