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The mantle of attainment
Weighs heavy on his shoulders
Guided by a lantern
Flickering he grows older
A refuge found in exile
He shuffles on in blindness
You'll take his hand, he'll lose himself
Bewildered by your kindness

Enshrouded by darkness
A figure slowly forms
Through many years of banishment
No shelter from the storm
To find this slave of solitude
You'll know him by his star
Then take his hand, he'll lose himself
Knowing who you are
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"As far as my eyes can see, there are shadows surrounding me
And to those I leave behind, I want you all to know
You've always shared my deepest thoughts, I'll miss you where I go" - Eric Woolfson

"Master of time, take me back through the years
Master of time, let me try once again
And I would give more, oh how I'd try
And with this a new life I'd buy" - Ant Phillips

"A pawn on a chess board
A false move by God will now destroy me
But wait on the horizon, a new dawn seems to be rising
Never to recall, this passerby, born to die" - Ant Phillips
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

"As far as my eyes can see, there are shadows surrounding meAnd to those I leave behind, I want you all to knowYou've always shared my deepest thoughts, I'll miss you where I go" - Eric Woolfson"Master of time, take me back through the yearsMaster of time, let me try once againAnd I would give more, oh how I'd try And with this a new life I'd buy" - Ant Phillips"A pawn on a chess boardA false move by God will now destroy meBut wait on the horizon, a new dawn seems to be risingNever to recall, this passerby, born to die" - Ant Phillips


U really are a doctor of prog
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Staying on that Genesis track:

"Stand in the sun
Shut your eyes and feel the world it's changing every day
Goodbye my love, each day will seem so long
Ooh there's so much I feel, that I can never say

I can't see you, I can't feel you anymore
I've just a memory of that open door" - Mike Rutherford
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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How about Afterglow by Genesis?


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Just a reminder to everyone - we are not allowed to reproduce the lyrics of any song in its entirety without permission.  You can link to it or just provide a sample.

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Though prog related, really-here is a sample. A song about someone who lives "the high life"

Helmut Koellen-The Story Of Life

"You smoke your refer, you drink your wine,
You take your pills and you feel just fine
You're taking off like a jumbo jet
That flight is bad, but you don't regret

You watch tv till you go blind,
Your parents sleep and they don't mind
You blow your nose, you wreck your car
You just drop out, you won't get far

I tell you the story of life which is old,
The more you get older, the more you get cold
About the only thing left in each generation
Is loving and dying and death and frustration"




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Deafheaven's "The Pecan Tree."

I laid drunk on the concrete on the day of your birth
In celebration of all you were worth
I am my father's son
I am no one
I cannot love
It's in my blood
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Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

How about Afterglow by Genesis?



oh yeah sure, but personally i would listen to the previous two tracks on the album before this one, as they are all connected to each other.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

just listen to KC's Epitaph and then that emotion will come to your head if that makes sense.
Absolutely.....one of the saddest prog epics out there.
 
"The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams.

Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh.
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying

Between the iron gates of fate
The seeds of time were sown
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known.
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.

The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams.

Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh.
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Crying..
Crying...
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Crying...

and nothing but the mellotron could fit this mood even more.
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Life's a long song
But the tune ends too soon for us all
 -Jethro Tull, "Life's A Long Song"
He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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Peter Gabriel - The Drop

watching as the sun goes down
i sit inside this plane
notice how the city lights
are like the nerves inside the brain

one by one
they're going out
you watch them dim

one by one

you watch them fall
and wonder where they're falling to


Edited by aliano - September 22 2014 at 03:35
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"What was my armworth when they .... took it away
......
Did it stop the mad charge that the enemy made"
- Captain Beyond

"And the sea isn't green
and I love the queen
and what exactly is a dream
and what exactly is a joke"
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Originally posted by aliano aliano wrote:

Peter Gabriel - The Drop

Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Just a reminder to everyone - we are not allowed to reproduce the lyrics of any song in its entirety without permission.  You can link to it or just provide a sample.

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Edited by Dayvenkirq - September 22 2014 at 02:14
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From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser by Jethro Tull



Edited by Svetonio - September 22 2014 at 03:09
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Originally posted by KingCrInuYasha KingCrInuYasha wrote:

Life's a long song
But the tune ends too soon for us all
 -Jethro Tull, "Life's A Long Song"
One of my favorite songs by Tull.
 
Approve
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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"The trees and I are shaken by the same wind but whereas
The trees will lose their withered leaves,
I just can't seem to let them loose.
And they can't refresh me those hot winds of the south.
Oh I feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place."

"Heathaze" by Genesis (Duke)

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"Script For A Jester's Tear" the song really needs to b mentioned here for its beautiful poetry and heart-wrenching performance by Fish
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"We are the Warriors on the Edge of Time
and we're tired
we're tired
we're tired of making love"



which begs the question .... what would Warriors want to make instead?
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

just listen to KC's Epitaph and then that emotion will come to your head if that makes sense.
Absolutely.....one of the saddest prog epics out there.
 
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I just don't think that anyone on this board, maybe a handful, can relate to the song in an emotional way ... like they lost their family member to an IRA bomb, or a close friend in VietNam ... so you can appreciate the beauty of this song and the massive eulogy that it is.
 
Again, I still look at this, as the pure soul and spirit of the time and space, that had the aesthetics and the bauty to stand up and be counted ... that was ignored later, because it all became a hit song, or just another song on radio by folks that were not interested in anything else but some form of greed!
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