Prog's Sad Lyrics
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Topic: Prog's Sad Lyrics
Posted By: Rednight
Subject: Prog's Sad Lyrics
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 15:20
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Any one out there with lyrics from prog that evoke sadness? Two that come to mind are Jethro Tull-Thick As a Brick: "So come on all you criminals! I've got to put you straight just like I did with my old man twenty years too late." Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon: "And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun." |
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 19:26
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Was it summer when the river went dry Or was it just another dam When the evil of a snowflake in June Could still be a source of relief.......................
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Posted By: La nouvelle terre
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 19:42
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The stars in their constellations Each one sadly flickers and falls. Without you, they mean nothing at all
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Posted By: Gallifrey
Date Posted: September 20 2014 at 22:59
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The entirety of Clutching at Straws. I don't often consider lyrics when listening to albums, but that's an exception. ------------- http://thedarkthird.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 00:33
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And as I watch the days march by me from my prison in this timeless tower I feel like I've been wasting every moment, every second, every hour So here's to all the cats who hung around but never got the cream But that was yesterday, that was last autumns dream From Jade Warrior's most recent album from 2008 - Now - the song is called Journey. Last Autumn's Dream was the name of their third album back in the early 70s, which failed to get any traction. I think anyone going through a midlife crisis will identify with the lyric. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 01:15
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The grass was greener.... ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 02:11
| Hammill has heaps..... |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 02:25
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Porcupine Tree's `Buying New Soul' still really bums me out! "I still wave at the dots on the shore And I still beat my head against the wall I still rage and wage my little war, I'm a shade and easy to ignore..." Top notch tune though! |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 02:48
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'the last train crawls to the station...and no one gets on..and no one gets off' 'inside the ghost of a parting...no one is left..just the cigarette smoke' Porcupine Tree-Don't Hate Me |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 02:50
| Opeth-Still Life album |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 02:54
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Porcupine Tree- Heartattack In A Layby Stop Swimming A Smart Kid Half-Light In Formaldehyde Russia On Ice RADIOHEAD- Street Spirit...Fade Out The Tourist |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 03:05
| Early ANATHEMA |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 03:15
That's the first I thought of as well. "So if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar where I sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and nursing our scars" ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Gallifrey wrote:Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 03:27
I actually find their early lyrics quite romantic! Sad, gloomy and melancholic, but also very heartfelt and thoughtful. 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 06:42
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Slint's "Good Morning Captain" Excerpt: "The captain reached for something to hold on to "Help me," he whispered, as he rose slowly to his feet The boy's face went pale He recognized the sound Silently, he pulled down the shade against the shadow Lost in the doorstep of the empty house "I'm trying to find my way home. I'm sorry . . . And I miss you" ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 07:01
Genesis - "For Absent Friends". And it's not just the lyrics, but the performance!
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:29
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just listen to KC's Epitaph and then that emotion will come to your head if that makes sense.
------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:45
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Almost everything from Peter Hammill. Sad and somewhat theatrically Gothic-grim.
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Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:51
Epitaph 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 11:02
"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... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 12:55
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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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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 14:20
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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? |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 14:33
U really are a doctor of prog 
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 15:44
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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 can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 16:28
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How about Afterglow by Genesis? |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 16:42
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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. Thanks! ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 18:25
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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" |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 19:11
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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 ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 19:26
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. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 21 2014 at 19:26
and nothing but the mellotron could fit this mood even more. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 00:58
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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! |
Posted By: aliano
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 01:14
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Peter Gabriel - The Drop watching as the sun goes down one by one one by one and wonder where they're falling to |
Posted By: Drumstruck
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 01:56
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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" Syd Barrett
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 02:14
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 03:02
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http://www.lyricsmania.com/from_a_dead_beat_to_an_old_greaser_lyrics_jethro_tull.html" rel="nofollow - From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser by Jethro Tull |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 08:11
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 22 2014 at 10:07
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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) |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 01:03
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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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Posted By: Drumstruck
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 01:20
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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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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 14:22
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! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: September 23 2014 at 22:45
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Triumvirat – A Cold Old Worried Lady. I mean, the narrator listens to the titular character’s warning of “impending doom”, initially laughs her off, but the incident triggers a depressed mood in him which grows and festers until he ends up committing suicide. Not exactly uplifting. ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 10:35
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"I am the one who guided you this far All you know and all you feel Nobody must know my name For nobody would understand And you kill what you fear And you fear what you don't understand I call you for I must leave You're on your own until the end There was a choice but now it's gone I said, 'You wouldn't understand Take what's yours and be damned.'" From Genesis' Duke |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 10:41
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There's a lot of sad RPI, but it would require a translation. The saddest song that I know is Venezia, by Assemblea Musicale Teatrale, about a young woman who dies delivering a baby. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 11:03
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Rush's, Losing It, always puts a lump in my throat. Also want to second that Triumvirat, A Cold Old Worried Lady. Great band and song. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 13:42
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^^Great to see Triumvirat mentioned, guys.
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: September 24 2014 at 16:27
good one--always liked that Banks lyric. He writes lot's of sad ones.
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Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 10:17
Why didn't i mention it yet  "The Invisible Man" by Marillion. Ssssssssaaaaaaaadddddddd.
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Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 11:09
Can't forget the line in IQ's 'Harvest of Souls'  'Hide where you can, we will shoot you from where you stand.'
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Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 13:20
Not necessarily sad, just a wake-up given hopefully in advance. ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 13:38
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You think I deserve this You said I was stupid All my thoughts are like coal But Russia on ice is burning a hole... ------------- |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 14:13
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Henry Cow's cover of Phil Ochs' No More Songs. While the lyrics were written by a non prog artists I think it deserves a mention, especially for the emotional interpretation by HC. "Hello hello hello, is there anybody home? I've only called to say, I'm sorry. The drums are in the dawn, and all the voices gone, and it seems that there are no more songs.... Once I knew a sage, who sang upon the stage. He told about the world, his lover. A ghost without name, stands ragged in the rain, and it seems that there are no more songs. " I also think Mr.Bungle's, Pink Cigarette, is a fairly sad song. Especially when vocalized by the superb Mr.Patton. "I'm hoping the smoke, hides the shame I've got on my face. Cognac and broken glass, all these years Ive been your ashtray... not today. I found a pink cigarette, on the bed the day that you left. And how can I forget that your lips were there, you kiss goes everywhere, touches everything.. but me.... Your eyes cried at last. Told me everything I was afraid to ask. Now I'm dressed in white, and you've burned me for the last time... this ain't the last time. You'll find a note, and my silhouette..." |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: September 29 2014 at 16:00
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I think for me one of the most emotional songs I can think of is Ulver - EOS: Rathnaih kalpithamaasanam, himajalaih snaanam cha divyaambharam. But seriously, take some time to yourself and drive out into the country where you can see the stars. Catch the tail end of a sunset and listen to this loud. Shivers. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 15:19
"Can there ever be 'again'...again?"  One More Tomorrow from the album Death Or Glory by Roy Harper. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 17:35
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A Trace of Blood from Pain of Salvation.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 17:42
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^ mmm true. I'll hop on the miscarriage train and add Ludvig and Sverker by Beardfish, especially the piano version ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 22:10
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A lot of sad Genesis lyrics have been cited, most of them by Tony Banks. I remember an interview where he said that he’s not a depressed person, he just finds it more interesting to write from that point of view. His first solo album “A Curious Feeling” was all about a man who is slowly losing his mind and withdrawing from the world. ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 22:59
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Posted By: 33rpm
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 14:08
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Agree with KC "Epitaph" ------------- Vinyl just sounds better!! |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 18:28
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Tim Buckley.......Song to the Siren I am as puzzled as the oyster
I am as troubled at the tide Should I stand amid the breakers? Or should I lie with death my bride? |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 21:16
 .... ..very true |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 21:27
| Phantom Of The Night by Kayak has very sad lyrics and the song actually brings sadness to my life. My good friend ...during my teen years..slipped on the ice upon the deck of a ship and fell into the Atlantic ocean. He plunged into freezing waters and died. But..the song just kills me because my mind drifts back to the memory of my friend who was like a brother to me. The lyrics of the song match my experience. It's very defeating to think of that tragic incident. I remember Jack Nicholson in the Witches Of Eastwick saying "Yeah well, people die all the time...I mean what does it have to do with us?" |
Posted By: thwok
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 06:25
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Some may debate its appropriateness for this forum, but I suggest "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles. It's my favorite Beatle song, and I think it's the very definition of loneliness. It's also one of the most progressive things the Beatles ever wrote. ------------- I am the funkiest man on the planet! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 07:37
| The lyrics to Balloon Astronomy's "One Summer" are heartbreakingly sad. I can't find them on the Internet anywhere so you'll just have to get the album. |
Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: October 10 2014 at 18:50
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On a black day In a black month At the black bottom of the sea Your mother gave birth to you And died immediately 'Cause you can't have two killers Living in the same pad And when your mother knew that her time had come She was really rather glad excerpt from Killer by Van der Graf Generator Just makes you want to cut your own throat, doesn't it?
------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: October 10 2014 at 19:29
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Speaking pf VDGG, here's one from "W": But you see no reassuring head Stay in bed all day And at six o' clock you realize you're dead Holy  , Peter.------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Thwokman
Date Posted: July 23 2018 at 04:05
| Porcupine Tree's "Even Less" |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: July 24 2018 at 08:06
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He had white horses And ladies by the score All dressed in satin And waiting by the door Oooh, what a lucky man he was Oooh, what a lucky man he was White lace and feathers They made up his bed A gold covered mattress On which he was laid Oooh, what a lucky man he was Oooh, what a lucky man he was He went to fight wars For his country and his king Of his honor and his glory The people would sing Oooh, what a lucky man he was Oooh, what a lucky man he was A bullet had found him His blood ran as he cried No money could save him So he laid down and he died Oooh, what a lucky man he was Oooh, what a lucky man he was |