A lot of new members around, how about giving a new life to the great "Name The Lyrical Passage" game !? Googling not allowed  (except when this gets stuck...) Would you like this?  

"Look for me in everything material, I live and breathe philosophy and spiritual escape."

Waiting For The Flood - Arena

I'll give you the names of those you must kill
All must die with their children
Carry their heads to the palace of old
Hang them, hang them, let the blood flow

"The Knife" - GENESIS

Drawing back the curtains sluggish city daylight in the afternoon

There's the special silence just before you walk out of the hotel room

Just Good Friends - not Fish but Peter Hammill

"Not a single word was said, they lied still without fears

occasionally you showed a smile, but what was the need?"

'Summer 68' by PINK FLOYD.

Now: " Father's fumbling in the vestry,
           lip-service to the sermon even while his fingers fiddle. "

Is it Family and the Fishing Net (Peter Gabriel)? Correct if I'm wrong. (Coincidentally in my paper with quotes to be used here I have the lines "light creeps thru her secret tunnels, sucked into the open spaces" from that song.)

"maybe music is the only way to tell me how you feel" 

 " Father's fumbling in the vestry,
           lip-service to the sermon even while his fingers fiddle. "

Peter Hammill's "Fed to the wolves", isn't it?

Well, at least I got the first name right.

What about this, anyone? (Quite easy, ain't it?)

"maybe music is the only way to tell me how you feel"  (hopefully not true about us...)

Tell Me - Camel

Here's an easy one...

"My words but a whisper - your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
Your sperm's in the gutter - your love's in the sink."

Who dares makes a name the lyrical passage#2 without my permission? You have broken sacred laws and now must be flogged for tresspassing on my awesome game!!!

Carry on now.

YES - 'Sound Chaser'

Now: " A knight for embankments folds his newspaper castle
           A creature of habit, begs the boatman's coin. "

Rush it is for sure... "Fountain of Lamneth"?

"And those are my swans, believe me. There's no light, and there isn't because...

it's so dark. Because it's so dark... Because it's so dark..."      (from my favourite 80's album)

 ^  "Bird in the Gravel" by Jane Siberry, from her masterpiece "The Walking" (one of my all-time favourite albums as well!)

"all the mistakes and bad judgements I made
nearly pushed me to the brink
it doesn't pay to be too nice
it's the one thing I have learned"

Dinosaur - King Crimson

"Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high."

LSD!  Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - what the hell was the band's name

"And for once I stood quite naked, I shamed, I wept the tears

which I tried to hide inside myself from me... I mean from you."

Answer to the following message: yes, I realized my Rush mistake. "Sphere" should have rung a bell!

Matti wrote: Rush it is for sure... "Fountain of Lamneth"? "And those are my swans, believe me. There's no light, and there isn't because... it's so dark. Because it's so dark... Because it's so dark..."      (from my favourite 80's album)

It is Rush, but it is the end of Hemispheres.

Matti wrote: "And for once I stood quite naked, I shamed, I wept the tears which I tried to hide inside myself from me... I mean from you."

Procol Harum - Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)

"One shirt a penny,
Seven in a tag;
Ten hours a day
And her heart begins to drag.
This never ending cycle goes on"

T.Rox wrote: "One shirt a penny, Seven in a tag; Ten hours a day And her heart begins to drag. This never ending cycle goes on"

That's Camel - Watching the Bobbins

Was ist:

"Hear me when I cry -- listen to my song

Of Jay my lovely lady -- to the earth she did belong.

I a country serf, loved her all my life

But the manor lady's bright young son couldn't take her for his wife."

Lady Jay - Wishbone Ash (now there's a band I haven't listened to in a long, long time!)

Now this next one: the group is not really prog (but possibly more so than some featured in Prog Archives) ... but this song is prog...

If your circles could be spirals
And your idols weren’t machines
If you could pick up all the signals
And flash on where you’ve been
Maybe you don’t feel it at all
It’s your own fault, crawl boy crawl
If you could quit the miming
and try some different timing
You could get a chance to be free

Golden Earring: Are You Receiving Me? (I googled... But this seemed to be so stuck!)

"My name it means nothing, my fortune is less

My future is shrouded in dark wilderness"

(A band i've never digged but I was charmed by this song which I heard in a Finnish film!)

Matti wrote: Golden Earring: Are You Receiving Me? (I googled... But this seemed to be so stuck!) "My name it means nothing, my fortune is less My future is shrouded in dark wilderness" (A band i've never digged but I was charmed by this song which I heard in a Finnish film!)

I knew those lyrics, but couldn't match it with a song or band, never considered the Golden Earring for that lyric Oh you googled, well at least it got the thread moving again

The new one is Black Sabbath - Solitude.

When she speaks to you in a soft voice
Makes you feel secure
Makes you feel so good at things you do