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When they turn the pages of history

When these days have passed long ago

Will they read of us with sadness

For the seeds that we let grow

We turned our gaze

From the castles in the distance

Eyes cast down

On the path of least resistance

 

Cities full of hatred

Fear and lies

Withered hearts

And cruel, tormented eyes

Scheming demons

Dressed in kingly guise

Beating down the multitude

And scoffing at the wise

 

The hypocrites are slandering

The sacred halls of Truth

Ancient nobles showering

Their bitterness on youth

Can't we find

The minds that made us strong

Can't we learn

To feel what's right and wrong

 

Cities full of hatred

Fear and lies

Withered hearts

And cruel, tormented eyes

Scheming demons

Dressed in kingly guise

Beating down the multitude

And scoffing at the wise

Can't we raise our eyes

And make a start

Can't we find the minds

To lead us closer to the Heart ph34r.gif

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Ain't no people on the old dirt road

No more weather on the old dirt road

But it's better than a mudslide mamma when the dry spell come

Oh oh oh old dirt road

 

Ain't no difference on the old dirt road

Tarred and feathered on the old dirt road

Trying to shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind

 

Breezing thru the deadwood on a hot summer day

I saw a human being lazybonin' out in the hay

I said uh, hey Mr. Human can ya rainmaker too?

He said I guess it's OK ya know the only thing we need is water

Cool, clear water!

 

Ain't no people on the old dirt road

No more weather on the old dirt road

But it's better than a mudslide mamma when the morning come

Oh oh oh old dirt road

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Here's a little trap

That sometimes catches everyone

When today's as far as we can see

Faith in bright tomorrows

giving way to resignation

That's how it is - how it's going to be

 

It's such a cloudy day

Seems we'll never see the sun

Or feel the day has possibilities

Frozen in the moment -

the lack of imagination

Between how it is and how it ought to be

 

Here's a little trap

That sometimes trips up everyone

When we tire of our own company

Sometimes we're the last to see beyond the day's frustrations

That's how it is - how it's going to be

 

It's such a cloudy day

Seems we'll never see the sun

I feel the day is all uncertainty

Burning in the moment - trapped by the desperation

Between how it is and how it ought to be

 

Foot upon the stair

Shoulder to the wheel

You can't tell yourself not to care

You can't tell yourself how to feel

 

That's how it is

Another cloudy day

 

Sunshine State, my a$$!!!

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Dream, dream away

Magic in the air, was magic in the air?

I believe, yes I believe

More I cannot say, what more can I say?

On a river of sound

Thru the mirror go round, round

I thought I could feel

Music touching my soul, something warm, sudden cold

The spirit dance was unfolding

 

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Begin the day

With a friendly voice

A companion, unobtrusive

Plays that song thats so elusive

And the magic music makes your morning mood

 

Off on your way

Hit the open road

There is magic at your fingers

For the spirit ever lingers

Undemanding contact

In your happy solitude

 

Invisible airwaves

Crackle with life

Bright antennae bristle

With the energy

Emotional feedback

On a timeless wavelength

Bearing a gift beyond price ---

Almost free...

 

All this machinery

Making modern music

Can still be open-hearted

Not so coldly charted

Its really just a question

Of your honesty

 

One likes to believe

In the freedom of music

But glittering prizes

And endless compromises

Shatter the illusion

Of integrity

 

For the words of the profits

Are written on the studio wall,

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Echoes with the sounds...

Of salesmen.

 

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Well, I'm lookin' at you,

And I'm wond'rin' what you're gonna do.

Looks like you got no friends,

No one to stick with you till the end.

 

Take yourself a friend.

Keep 'em till the end.

Whether woman or man,

It makes you feel so good...

So good!

 

Yes, you think you're all right,

But now you're lonely ev'ry night.

Well, you need a friend,

Someone on whom you can always depend.

 

Yes, you need some advice,

Well, let me put it to you nice.

I said you need a friend,

Someone who'll stick with you to the end.

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I wasn't walking on water

I was standing on a reef

When the tide came in

Swept beneath the surface

Lost without a trace

No hope at all

No hope at all

 

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle of life

 

I wasn't walking with angels

I was talking to myself

Rising up to the surface

Raging against the night

Starless night

 

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Love's sweet miracle of life

 

I wasn't praying for magic

I was hiding in plain sight

Rising up from the surface

To fly into the light

Into the light

 

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle of life

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Oh, sweet miracle

Love's sweet miracle of life

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I find no absolution

In my rational point of view

Maybe some things are instinctive

But there's one thing you could do

You could try to understand me

I could try to understand you.

You could try to understand me

I could try to understand you.

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QUOTE (joanneeeeee @ Jan 18 2008, 11:39 AM)
Well, I'm lookin' at you,
And I'm wond'rin' what you're gonna do.
Looks like you got no friends,
No one to stick with you till the end.

Take yourself a friend.
Keep 'em till the end.
Whether woman or man,
It makes you feel so good...
So good!

Yes, you think you're all right,
But now you're lonely ev'ry night.
Well, you need a friend,
Someone on whom you can always depend.

Yes, you need some advice,
Well, let me put it to you nice.
I said you need a friend,
Someone who'll stick with you to the end.

Good One! applaudit.gif

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QUOTE (Arleen2112 @ Jan 18 2008, 11:45 AM)
QUOTE (joanneeeeee @ Jan 18 2008, 11:39 AM)
Well, I'm lookin' at you,
And I'm wond'rin' what you're gonna do.
Looks like you got no friends,
No one to stick with you till the end.

Take yourself a friend.
Keep 'em till the end.
Whether woman or man,
It makes you feel so good...
So good!

Yes, you think you're all right,
But now you're lonely ev'ry night.
Well, you need a friend,
Someone on whom you can always depend.

Yes, you need some advice,
Well, let me put it to you nice.
I said you need a friend,
Someone who'll stick with you to the end.

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Yeah, i love this one wub.gif

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As the waves crash in

On the western shore

The wind blows fierce from the east

Wave tops torn into flying spindrift

 

As the waves crash in

On the western shore

It makes me feel uneasy

The spray that's torn away

Is an image of the way I feel

 

What am I supposed to say?

Where are the words to answer you

When you talk that way?

 

As sun goes down

On the western shore

The wind blows hard from the east

It whips the sand into a flying spindrift

As the sun goes down

On the western shore

It makes me feel uneasy

In the hot dry rasp of the devil winds

Who cares what a fool believes

 

What am I supposed to say?

Where are the words to answer you

When you talk that way?

Words that fly against the wind and waves

 

A little closer to you

Where is the wave that will carry me

A little closer to you?

Where is the wind that will carry me

 

What am I supposed to say?

Where are the words to answer you

When you talk that way?

 

What am I supposed to do?

Where are the words that will make you see

What I believe is true?

Where is the wave that will carry me

 

A little closer to you

Where is the wind that will carry me

A little closer to you?

Where is the wind that will carry me

A little closer to you?

Where is the wind that will carry me

A little closer to you?

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When the dragons grow too mighty

To slay with pen or sword

I grow weary of the battle

And the storm I walk toward

When all around is madness

And there's no safe port in view

I long to turn my path homeward

To stop a while with you

 

When life becomes as barren

And as cold as winter skies

There's a beacon in the darkness

In a distant pair of eyes

In vain to search for honor

In vain to search for truth

But these things can still be given

Your love has shown me proof

 

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Suddenly, you were gone

From all the lives you left your mark upon

 

I remember

How we talked and drank into the misty dawn

I hear the voices

 

We ran by the water on the wet summer lawn

I see the footprints

I remember

 

I feel the way you would

I feel the way you would

 

Tried to believe but you know it's no good

This is something that just can't be understood

 

I remember

The shouts of joy skiing fast through the woods

I hear the echoes

 

I learned your love for life,

I feel the way that you would

I feel your presence

I remember

 

I feel the way you would

This just can't be understood...

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This one's for Jaye, but anyone can enjoy it. Some of the best lyrics ever.

 

The rain auditions at my window

Its symphony echoes in my womb

My gaze scans the walls of this apartment

To rectify the confines of my tomb

 

Im the cyclops in the tenement

Im the soul without the cause

Crying midst my rubber plants, ignoring beckoning doors

Clippings from ancient newspapers lie scattered cross the floor

Stained by the wine from a shattered glass

Meaningless words

Yellowed by time

Faded photos exposing pain

Celluloid leeches bleeding my mind

Christ, youve finished playing hangman

Youve cast the fateful dice

Advice, advice, advice me, this shroud will not suffice

And thus begins the web

 

Attempting to discard these clinging memories

I only serve to wallow in our past

I fabricate the weave with my excuses

Its strands I hope and pray shall last

Oh please do last

Oh please do last

 

The flytrap needs the insects

Ivy caresses the wall

Needles make love to the junkies

The sirens seduce with their call

Confidence has deserted me, with you it has forsaken me

Confused and rejected, despised and alone, I kiss isolation on its fevered brow

Security clutching me

Obscurity threatening me

Christ, your reasons were so obvious as my friends have qualified

I only laughed away your tears, but even joker.gif cry

But even joker.gif cry

 

I realise I hold the key to freedom

Oh I cannot let my life be ruled by threads

The time has come to make decisions

The changes have to be made

 

I realise I hold the key to freedom

I cannot let my life be ruled by threads

The time has come to make decisions

The changes have to be made

 

Now I leave you

The past does have its say

Youre all but forgotten

A mote in my heart

Decisions have been made

Theyve been made

 

Decisions have been made

Ive conquered my fears, all my fears

The flaming shroud, the flaming shroud

Thus ends the web, the web, the web, the web, the web

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QUOTE (joanneeeeee @ Jan 18 2008, 07:39 PM)
Very nice smile.gif

Yeah it's kinda dark and "pissed off" lyrically and when you listen to it but if you don't know it you really should hear it. Brilliant song from an even better album.

 

The Web - Marillion

 

I actually used the lyrics from The Web to analyse as part of some English Language coursework I had to do last year. Someone else in the class wanted to do an Oasis song (Worst band ever?) but the teacher said it wasn't complex enough lyrically, she saw the Marillion song and wouldn't believe it was a song. She thought it was some obscure arty poetry. laugh.gif

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QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Jan 18 2008, 01:43 PM)
QUOTE (joanneeeeee @ Jan 18 2008, 07:39 PM)
Very nice smile.gif

Yeah it's kinda dark and "pissed off" lyrically and when you listen to it but if you don't know it you really should hear it. Brilliant song from an even better album.

 

The Web - Marillion

 

I actually used the lyrics from The Web to analyse as part of some English Language coursework I had to do last year. Someone else in the class wanted to do an Oasis song (Worst band ever?) but the teacher said it wasn't complex enough lyrically, she saw the Marillion song and wouldn't believe it was a song. She thought it was some obscure arty poetry. laugh.gif

That's cool!

 

I have to admit i haven't listened to Marillion in wayyyyy too long sad.gif

 

Time to catch up, huh?

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I said I played this song so many times before

That the melody keeps repeating.

Growing new ideas, flowing chords and notes,

Like a mountain river bleeding.

 

Well, I say as I look back at all the thoughts I've had,

They reflect just what I'm learning.

Yes, you know that the hardest part, yes, I say it is to stay on top,

On top of a world forever churning.

 

Well, you say you laugh, but I can see that your eyes are glass.

Well, do you see, can't you see,can you see what I'm feeling?

Yes, I've seen your face before.

Why said I've seen it everywhere,

Showing up to me without a scent revealing.

 

Well, I said will it ever change?

Oh yes lord i said Will it stay the same?

I'd surely like to know before it's over.

Well, I said I played this song.

Yes I said it won't be long,

Won't be long before I stop and play, play another.

 

You know I've, I've seen your face before.

Is it ever gonna, ever gonna change again?

Oh, oh I've, I've been in one place too long.

Is it ever gonna, ever gonna change again?

 

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Yeah, oh yeah!

Ooh, said I, I'm comin' out to get you

Ooh, sit down, I'm comin' out to find you

Ooh, yeah

Ooh yeah

Findin' my way!

 

I've been gone so long

I've lost count of the years

Well, I sang some sad songs

Oh yes, and cried some bad tears

 

Look out! I'm comin', whoa, whoa

Look out! I'm comin', whoa, yeah

 

I'm runnin', finding my way back home

Oh yeah!

 

Yeah, oh, yeah!

Ooh, said I, I'm comin' back to look for you

Ooh, sit down, I'm goin' by the back door

Ooh, yeah

Ooh, yeah

Findin' my way!

 

You've done me no right

But you've done me some wrong

Left me lonely each night

While I sing my sad song

 

Look out! I'm comin', whoa, whoa

Look out! I'm comin', whoa, yeah

 

I'm runnin', findin' my way back home

 

I'm comin'

Ooh, babe, I said I'm runnin'

Whoa, babe, I said I'm comin' to get you, mama

Said I'm runnin'

 

Ooh, babe, I said I'm comin' for you, babe. I said I'm runnin'

Ooh, yes, babe, I said I'm comin' to get you, babe

I said I'm comin'

Ooh, yeah

 

I'm findin', I'm findin' my way back home

Well, I've had it for now, livin' on the road

Ooh, yeah

Ooh, yeah

 

Findin' my way!

 

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Lime and limpid green, a second scene

A fight between the blue you once knew.

Floating down, the sound resounds

Around the icy waters underground.

Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.

Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Lime and limpid green, a second scene

A fight between the blue you once knew.

Floating down, the sound resounds

Around the icy waters underground.

Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.

Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,

Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.

Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there?

Lime and limpid green, the sounds around

The icy waters under

Lime and limpid green, the sounds around

The icy waters underground.

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Though we might have precious little

It's still precious

 

I like that song about this wonderful world

It's got a sunny point of view

And sometimes I feel it's true

At least for a few of us

I like that world, it makes a wonderful song

But there's a darker point of view

But sadly just as true

For so many among us

 

Though we might have precious little

It's still precious

 

In the sweetest child there's a vicious streak

In the strongest man there's a child so weak

In the whole wide world there's no magic place

So you might as well rise put on your bravest face

 

I like that show where they solve all the murders

An heroic point of view

It's got justice and vengeance too

At least so the story goes

I like that story, makes a satisfying case

But there's a messy point of view

That's sadly just as true

For so many among us

 

In softest voice there's an acid tongue

In the oldest eyes there's a soul so young

In the shakiest will there's a core of steel

On the smoothest ride there's a squeaky wheel

 

Though we might have precious little

It's still precious

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