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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 sentiment and pride

Too late to say I love you, too late to re-stage the play

Abandoning the relics in my playground of yesterday.

 

 

Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear

 

 

The opening stanza of the album basically predicted Fish's career and private life.

 

Brilliant.

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Welcome to the Grand Illusion! Come on in and see what's happening!

(The Grand Illusion)

 

 

When I was a young man, I could kick and scratch and claw...

(Pieces of Eight)

 

My mind is clearer now. At last, I can see, where we all, soon will be.

(Jesus Christ Superstar)

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QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ Dec 12 2011, 10:21 PM)
Out here in the fields
I fought for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven



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Damn Straight!! trink39.gif

 

Ditto that...

 

QUOTE (Tommy Sawyer @ Dec 13 2011, 05:51 AM)
QUOTE (Union 5-3992 @ Dec 13 2011, 06:48 AM)
I really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a wisper, your deafness a shout.

fixed

 

Sorry, I had to. wink.gif

Good Job Tommy

 

 

 

Nothing is easy. Though time gets you worrying my friend, it's o.k.

Just take your life easy and stop all that hurrying, be happy my way.

 

Strange avenues where you lose all sense of direction and everywhere is Main Street in the winter sun.

 

Savage night on a misty island. Lights wink out in the canyon walls.

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QUOTE (GuitarKid 1880 @ Dec 13 2011, 08:01 PM)
A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange you liver to the solid mental grace,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the fruit of man recording losing all against the hour.

-Close To The Edge, Yes

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"Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources, chased amid fusions of wonder in moments hardly seen, forgotten..."
> album - Tales From Topographic Oceans

 

I skimmed the thread just to see if this was said.

^ see, here's the thing

 

I love the CTTE album... much more than Topographic Oceans

 

but the opening lyrics to CTTE are ridiculous - hate them

 

The Revealing Science Of God isn't half the song CTTE is, but the opening lyrics are perfect poetry

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QUOTE (ghostworks @ Dec 14 2011, 09:29 PM)
QUOTE (GuitarKid 1880 @ Dec 13 2011, 08:01 PM)
A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange you liver to the solid mental grace,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the fruit of man recording losing all against the hour.

-Close To The Edge, Yes

QUOTE
"Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources, chased amid fusions of wonder in moments hardly seen, forgotten..."
> album - Tales From Topographic Oceans

 

I skimmed the thread just to see if this was said.

^ see, here's the thing

 

I love the CTTE album... much more than Topographic Oceans

 

but the opening lyrics to CTTE are ridiculous - hate them

 

The Revealing Science Of God isn't half the song CTTE is, but the opening lyrics are perfect poetry

I adore Tales, much more than CTTE, I also find the opening to The Revealing Science Of God to be poetry, but CTTE has some darn cool lyric openings.

 

Probably should've made it the AAAHHHHH instead xD

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I remember now

 

I remember how it started

 

I can't remember yesterday

 

I just remember doing....what they told me.... told me....told me....told me....told me.....

 

 

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An outlaw stand in a peasant land

In every face see Judas (the burden of love is so strange)...

- Swoon (Prefab Sprout)

 

 

Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling

Can never cut below the floor or penetrate the ceiling

In the space between our houses, some bones have been discovered

But our procession lurches on, as if we had recovered...

- Starfish (The Church)

 

 

There is no political solution

To our troubled evolution

Have no faith in constitution

There is no bloody revolution...

- Ghost In The Machine (The Police)

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QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Dec 13 2011, 12:05 PM)
In France, skinny man
Died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle
Soon she did the same
At home there are seventeen year old boys
And their idea of fun
Is being in a gang called The Disciples
High on crack, totin' a machine gun

Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life
Electric word life
It means forever and that's a mighty long time
But I'm here 2 tell u
There's something else
The afterworld
A world of never ending happiness
U can always see the sun, day or night
So when u call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
U know the one - Dr Everything'll Be Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby
'Cuz in this life
Things are much harder than in the afterworld
In this life
You're on your own
And if de-elevator tries 2 bring u down
Go crazy - punch a higher floor

Beat me to it! The first two that came to mind smile.gif

 

Might I also add:

 

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I only want you to have some fun..." Then, of course, the actual first sung lines are amazing as well. (Prince - 1999)

 

"I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord..." (Phil Collins - Face Value)

 

"Helllooooooooo babbbyyyyyyyyy!" (Van Halen - 5150)

 

"Your butt is mine..." (Michael Jackson - Bad; it may seem silly out of context, but it just works wonderfully as the opening line)

 

"You should've been goooooone!" (Okay, that one was a joke tongue.gif)

 

 

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This is one of my favorites but I wanted to give others a chance to post it. I don't think it has been posted....

 

 

 

Begin the day

Wth a friendly voice,

A companion, unobtrusive

Plays the song that's so elusive

And the magic music makes your morning mood.

 

.......Permanent Waves album

 

Peace

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Well, she was just 17,

You know what I mean,

And the way she looked was way beyond compare.

So how could I dance with another (ooh)

When I saw her standin' there.

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Ther first song on the first album (British release) by the band that changed it all.

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QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Dec 15 2011, 11:49 AM)
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh nooo!
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.
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Welcome to the dark side.

Well I know the song but at this moment I'm drawing a blank.

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QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Dec 15 2011, 11:49 AM)
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh nooo!
.
.
.
.
Welcome to the dark side.

Well I know the song but at this moment I'm drawing a blank.

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