Best Fish era Marillion Song

I realize there will be songs you like not on this list. I tried to spread them out from their earliest all the way through 88'....and then I selected them as according to personal tastes. There is an other choice on this list.

Have Fun

Arioch.

I like all of Marillion Fish era.

I voted Incubus, both lyricaly and musicaly it's their best effort. 

I've voted for GRENDEL.

But where's the 2nd best one?!??!? I mean SHE CHAMELEON...

I voted 'Script..' Such a well crafted and moving song

In close second would be 'Incubus', then 'Cinderella Search' or may 'Fugazi'..or maybe...

Oh boy, how do you choose from such a good selection??

Script For a Jester's Tear.

The first song on their first album.

Has there ever been a better statement of intent than that?

FUGAZI!!!

Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the real
Tears from the real

Drowning in the liquid seize on the piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth
Caress ophelias hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition
Sheathed within the walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation
She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck

From the time-life-guardians in their conscience bubbles
Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Nine to five with suitable ties
Cast adrift as their sideshow, peepshow, stereo hero
Becalm bestill, bewitch
Drowning in the real

The thief of baghdad hides in islingtown now
Praying deportation for his sacred cow
A legacy of romance from a twilight world
The dowry of a relative mystery girl
A vietnamese flower, a dockland union
A mistress of release from a magazine’s thighs
Magdalenes contracts more than favours
The feeding hands of western promise hold her by the throat

A son of a swastika of ’45 parading a peroxide standard
Graffiti disciples conjure testaments of hatred
Aerosol wands whisper where the searchlights trim the barbed wire hedges
This is brixton chess
A knight for embankment folds his newspaper castle
A creature of habit, begs the boatman’s coin
He’ll fade with old soldiers in the grease stained roll call
And linger with the heartburn of good friday’s last supper

Son watches father scan obituary columns in search of absent school friends
While his generation digests high fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains and the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide, provided door to door belsens
Pandora’s box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens
Waiting, wai-wai-waiting, the season of the button
The penultimate migration
Radioactive perfumes
For the fashionably
For the terminally insane, insane
D-d-do you realise?
D-d-do you realise?
D-d-do you realise, this world is totally fugazi

Where are the prophets
Where are the visionaries
Where are the poets
To breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary

(I also love Kayleigh ..and Grendel)

Does anyone "get" the cross-story in that same verse and its relevance?

"Caress Ophelia's hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition

She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck"

What I'm getting at is; How does it begin to relate to;

"Drowning in the liquid seize on the Piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth

Sheathed within the walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation"

The only thing that occurs to me is that the protaganist is sitting on a tube in rush hour with his headphones on and reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" at the same time. Maybe the lines in the poem are making him think of his disastrous love-life (ever a common theme in the lyrics on the first 4 Marillion albums).

However, there are many sea-going references in the next verse, so I assume there is something about the poem that relates to this song - but I haven't spotted it yet! - Any literary experts have any theories?

Anyone even care?

Three Boats Down From The Candy. Great lyrics, good song.

Expresso Bongo comes a close second but I couldn't for the life of me tell you why. Maybe because it's nice and short.