danlo wrote:If you're pretty well versed in prog you should be able to ID these lyrics (no googling!)
I. STONES OF YEARS
Has the dawn ever seen your eyes?
Have the days made you so unwise?
Realize, you are.
Had you talked to the winds of time,
Then you'd know how the water rhyme.
Taste of wine,
How can you know where you've been?
In time you'll see the sign,
And realize your sin.
Will you know how the seed is sown?
All your time has been overgrown,
Never known.
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.
II. MASS
The preacher said a prayer,
Save ev'ry single hair on his head.
He's dead.
The minister of hate had just arrived too late to be spared.
Who cared?
The weaver in the web that he made!
The pilgrim wandered in,
Commiting ev'ry sin that he could
So good...
The cardinal of grief was set in his belief he'd saved
From the grave
The weaver in the web that he made!
The high priest took a blade
To bless the ones that prayed,
And all obeyed.
The messenger of fear is slowly growing, nearer to the time,
A sign.
The weaver in the web that he made!
A Bishop rings a bell,
A cloak of darkness fell across the ground,
Without a sound!
The silent choir sing and in their silence,
Bring jaded sound, harmonic ground.
The weaver in the web that he made!
III. BATTLEFIELD
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 rain
Then there will be no sorrow,
Be no pain
Piece of cake,Danlo.Tarkus.One of the best ever.You're gonna have to get a little more obscure than that.
"Speak to me of summer,
long winters longer
than time can remember"
"I still remember the talks by the water
the proud sons and daughters
that knew the knowledge of the land
spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways"
Actually Relayer got it way before you. And since I almost killed the 'What are you listening to thread?' a long time ago with guess the song posting lyrics to The Revealing Science of God I'm more careful nowadays--but as long as you're happy that's the point!
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I've been listening to some of my old Genesis lately, and am totally impressed all over again. Those guys were fantastic! Trespass doesn't quite do it for me, but the other Gabriel era albums (Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England... , Lamb...) and the two after he left (Trick.. and Wind and Wuthering) are all outstanding. I'd have to pick Selling England and Trick of the Tail as my two favorites though. And my God, was Collins a fantastic drummer or what? So good....
BTW if anyone else really likes this era, the new 5.1 surround remasters of Trick and Wind and Wuthering are really good. I can't wait until the Gabriel era rematers are released. (Lter this year I think...)
"The plural of antecdotes is not evidence."
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Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
Cool. It's good to know someone else would be with me if I started spouting lyrics like:
"A Flower?"
or
"errogenous zones, I love you...."
"The plural of antecdotes is not evidence."
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Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
My first Genesis was
I must have bought in it 1974, that one along with Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans and ELP's Tarkus were my three main prog LPs of the time (along with somewhat obscure and folk prog including Gentle Gaint and Van Der Graff Generator, H. P. Lovecraft, Ultimate Spinach, Horslips, Lindesfarne and Renaissance). The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Trick of the Tale soon followed. I love Trick!!!
Jazz/rock fusion, such as the Mahavishnu Orchestra and much of Yes' stuff had a Sci-Fi feel but Selling England was my first exposure to music that had a driving "high fantasy" tone to it.
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"Selling England.." is perfect. I honestly love every note! Cinema Show has to be one of the coolest album closer's ever. And Trick is definetly up there for me also. I think Phil's singing sounds a little tenative (and understandably so) but that one is awesome as well. The new remasters really make a big difference on the quieter songs on Trick. The acoustic 12-strings on Ripples and Entangled are so clear and crisp. They really did a nice job with the remastering on that one.
"The plural of antecdotes is not evidence."
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Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
Romeo locks his basement flat
And scuries up the stair
With head held high and floral tie
A weekend millionaire
"I will make my bed
With her tonight..." he cries
Can he fail, armed with his chocolate surprise?
Even some of the really goofy Pete lyrics are still, somehow, darn cool.
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"The plural of antecdotes is not evidence."
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Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
Take a little trip back with Father Tiresias
Listen to the old man speak of all he has been through
I have crossed between the poles
And for me there's no mystery.
Once a man like the sea I raged,
Once a woman like the earth I gave
But there is in fact more earth than sea.
"History is a myth men have agreed upon." - Napoleon
Absolutely! The contrast between the sort of goofy take on the mundane in the first two verses and the epic later is great.
"The plural of antecdotes is not evidence."
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Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
Sorry, just had to mention that Fleetwood Mac's Mystery to Me, Captian Beyond and Todd Rundgren were becoming very big things at the time---as was everything else-yes we were spoiled by creativity at the time but also overwhelmed a hundred times over---and we still are-there is no end to human consciouness-but in so many directions, you've all just followed a few...
Last edited by danlo on Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:57 am, edited 1 time in total.
Sorry, coming in late to this and I only read about three of the pages of posts... I want to plug a complete unknown named Andy Rinehart, whose albums Jason's Chord and Pillbox are amazing in a quiet, non-blistering prog way. More like early Genesis than, say, Rush or Yes.
Glad you liked it; next up is a band that has the leaders of Spock's Beard and the Flower Kings in it, called Transatlantic. Oh, and it has Mike Portnoy, the best part of Dream Theatre, in it too.
It's good to know someone else would be with me if I started spouting lyrics like:
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