Love in All the Wrong Places

Well I shouldn't say WRONG places, but unexpected no doubt. I have made the recent realization that some prog songs will throw in a love lyric without warning into a non-love song (roughly 97% of prog music).

For example: the song Drip Drip by Comus has a part just before the chorus returns where they sing "I love you" very convincingly and in sharp contrast to all the lyrics that surround the line. Yet, it is still very passionate and believable.

What others do you know of where something similar happens? Do you think it works? Does the lack of repetitive love lyrics make the lone one stand out? Maybe even better than actual love songs? Well?? Do they?!?!

ebil0505 wrote: Well I shouldn't say WRONG places, but unexpected no doubt. I have made the recent realization that some prog songs will throw in a love lyric without warning into a non-love song (roughly 97% of prog music). For example: the song Drip Drip by Comus has a part just before the chorus returns where they sing "I love you" very convincingly and in sharp contrast to all the lyrics that surround the line. Yet, it is still very passionate and believable. What others do you know of where something similar happens? Do you think it works? Does the lack of repetitive love lyrics make the lone one stand out? Maybe even better than actual love songs? Well?? Do they?!?!

Do you include love for something, not just someone?

Hi,

Dayvenkirq wrote: ebil0505 wrote: Well I shouldn't say WRONG places, but unexpected no doubt. I have made the recent realization that some prog songs will throw in a love lyric without warning into a non-love song (roughly 97% of prog music). For example: the song Drip Drip by Comus has a part just before the chorus returns where they sing "I love you" very convincingly and in sharp contrast to all the lyrics that surround the line. Yet, it is still very passionate and believable. What others do you know of where something similar happens? Do you think it works? Does the lack of repetitive love lyrics make the lone one stand out? Maybe even better than actual love songs? Well?? Do they?!?! Do you include love for something, not just someone?

I suppose I would, yes.

ebil0505 wrote: For example: the song Drip Drip by Comus has a part just before the chorus returns where they sing "I love you" very convincingly and in sharp contrast to all the lyrics that surround the line. Yet, it is still very passionate and believable.

Well, it IS a love song - albeit one sung to a corpse.....

Michael678 wrote: i thought i heard something like "I Love You" when i was listening to Camel's Lady Fantasy (cause its kind of THAT popular around here), although that's probably part of the point of the song's lyrics maybe. i could be wrong, though.

Not only IS that the line in Lady Fantasy, it’s the last one.

Lost by VDGG also has I Love You as the last line.

I may be a minority here, but I don't mind prog songs being about love at all. Love is after all a very central topic for all of us, and much of what's going on in our lives is about love, or the lack thereof.
What turns me off, and what I don't like to hear, are the cliché lyrics about love, without deeper meaning or feeeling, that are everywhere in mainstream pop.
So welcome to love in prog music, but please try to say something original.

Edited by moshkito - August 05 2014 at 09:03

Tull's "Wond'ring Aloud" is as beautiful a love song as you'll hear without the word "love" said once.

AreYouHuman wrote: Michael678 wrote: i thought i heard something like "I Love You" when i was listening to Camel's Lady Fantasy (cause its kind of THAT popular around here), although that's probably part of the point of the song's lyrics maybe. i could be wrong, though. Not only IS that the line in Lady Fantasy, it’s the last one. Lost by VDGG also has I Love You as the last line.