Hi everybody I'm new in here, beautiful website, it is a source for all my prog questions and my doubts about progressive music.            

       Hoping that this question has never been made, which is in your opinion the best

                                         PROGRESSIVE LOVE SONG

                                                    ever made?

I go for "750.000 anni fa...l'amore?"  by Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso from "Darwin"

I know the lyrics are in italian, but the song is about a prehistoric man, who likes a woman, and contemplates her beauty. He would like to express his feelings to her, but his "mind" isn't able to formulate sentences, so he can only watch the woman in desperation, hidden in the shadow....

What's your choice?

Bye

Does Queen count as progressive????

If so.
You take my breath away

Look into my eyes and you’ll see I’m the only one
You’ve captured my love stolen my heart
Changed my life
Every time you make a move you destroy my mind
And the way you touch
I lose control and shiver deep inside
You take my breath away

You can reduce me to tears with a single sigh
Ev’ry breath that you take
Any sound that you make is a whisper in my ear
I could give up all my life for just one kiss
I would surely die if you dismiss me from your love
You take my breath away

So please don’t go
Don’t leave me here all by myself
I get ever so lonely from time to time
I will find you anywhere you go
I’ll be right behind you
Right until the ends of the earth
I’ll get no sleep until I find you
To tell you that you just take my breath away

I will find you anywhere you go
Right until the ends of the earth
I’ll get no sleep until I find you
To tell you when I’ve found you
I love you

really, tears in my eyes, just from reading this lines

gdub411 wrote: ^...now just think Tuxon...Freddie probably wrote that about another man.

doesn't matter, each his own, but i find it to be a very emotional song, one of the best lyrics I know, maybe I just know to few lyrics

Script from Marillion comes second

Explain Synthy, I agree on the created sentiment through the song, bu i don't see it in the lyrics

Great Song nonetheless

A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream.
Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes.
As a foundation left to create the spiral aim,
A movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed.
Between the picture of time behind the face of need,
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Oh.

Coins and crosses

   Turn round tailor, assaulting

Never know their fruitless worth;

all the mornings of the interest shown,



presenting one another to the cord,

   All left dying, rediscovered



Of the door that turned round,

   To close the cover, all the



interest shown,

   To turn one another, to the



sign at the time float your climb.

And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.

II. Eclipse
Anderson/Bruford/Squire

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the side of seeds of life with you.

III. The Preacher the Teacher
Anderson/Bruford/Howe/Squire

Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.
Ooh, ooh.

I listened hard but could not see
Life tempo change out and inside me.
The preacher trained in all to lose his name;
The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same.
In the end, we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalize
That the truth of the man maturing in his eyes,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
As a moment regained and regarded both the same,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you.

IV. Apocalypse
Anderson/Bruford/Howe/Squire

And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning.
And you and I reach over the sun for the river.
And you and I climb, clearer, towards the movement.
And you and I called over valleys of endless seas.

gdub411 wrote: Is the Love Boat Prog?

it floats

Although there are many, I'd have to go with Genesis' "Afterglow."  The build-up toward the end is so emotional, so powerful, that it sends shivers up my spine every time I hear it...

Peace.

I listened hard but could not see.

but your post made it clear to me, thanks Arsillus, you've made me reread the lyrics. And I see the beauty beneath the surface

steelyhead wrote: Love Song. Does The Cure count as prog?

 Great tune!

I sat in the room with a view The girl in the photograph knew
Can't you see? Why is she laughing at me?

I stumbled through the dark unaware The face in the hall isn't there
Tomorrow has gone Where do the voices come from?

Watching the leaves as they blew Lost in the room with a view
Climb the walls You did not know me at all

I fell through a hole in the floor The audience cried out for more
Fadeaway It's just another day

tuxon wrote: I listened hard but could not see.   but your post made it clear to me, thanks Arsillus, you've made me reread the lyrics. And I see the beauty beneath the surface

So... Does that mean I don't have to explain anything?

Good.  Because I always have trouble with Jon's lyrics.  The bits I can decipher are beautiful, but during some bits of the song, I just trust that Jon actually is trying to make a point. 

I love the music though!

Nights in White Satin?

"You" from Tony Banks, from the album A Curious Feeling.

Most funny love song: "You yes yes yes you" from The Residents. The whole song goes like: "Youououou yes yes yes yes yes yes yes youououou": the essence of a love song

Love and prog

Horrible mix.

Mike Oldfield - moonlight shadow

Very sad song

Acquaintance by Enchant.

I did not suspect - that we would not connect - and end up strangers

I could dance with you all night - make love by candlelight
we could talk and talk but it's all in spite cause you'll never be my friend
I could walk with you through the rain - we could share each other's pain
We could do all this but it's all in vain cause you'll never be my friend

Dream Theater - "Through her Eyes"

She never really had a chance
On that fateful moonlit night
Sacrificed without a fight
A victim of her circumstance

Now that I’ve become aware
And I’ve exposed this tragedy
A sadness grows inside of me
It all seems so unfair

I’m learning all about my life
By looking through her eyes

Just beyond the churchyard gates
Where the grass is overgrown
I saw the writing on her stone
I felt like I would suffocate

Inloving memory of our child
So innocent, eyes open wide
I felt so empty as I cried
Like part of me had died

I’m learning all about my life
By looking through her eyes

And as her image
Wandered through my head
I wept just like a baby
As I lay awake in bed

And I know what it’s like
To lose someone you love
And this felt just the same

She wasn’t given any choice
Desperation stole her voice
I’ve been given so much more in life
I’ve got a son, I’ve got a wife

I had to suffer one last time
To grieve for her and say goodbye
Relive the anguish of my past
To find out who I was at last

The door has opened wide
I’m turning with the tide
Looking through her eyes

Great choices everybody, I also like "And you and I" and "Moonlight shadow", too     

Thank you

___ BYE___

Renaissance - Scheherzade and other stories

>Focus - Sylvia. The greatest wordless love song of all time.

I don't know this one but the best instrumental love song would be "After the ordeal" (Genesis, Selling England by the pound) to me !
"And you and I" is also my favourite with lyrics.

beterdedthnred4 wrote: Hatfield and the North-It Didn't Matter Anyway

It didn't matter anyway
We'll meet again some other day
Till then keep well
You'll be in my dreams
Goodnight, goodbye, bye for now...

The time has come to leave you
Please don't feel alone
For now that we've met
There'll be a way to reach you and say
"Never mind..."

It didn't matter anyway
We'll meet again some other day
Till then keep well
You'll be in my dreams
Goodnight, goodbye, bye for now...

mmm Lady Fantasy "Camel"

Listen very carefully, my words are about to unfold
Concerning a lady I've seen but I never could hold
I can see by your smile,
Take a long while,
The words that come through,
I see that they're true,
For she reminds me of you.


Don't misunderstand me, it's not always easy to say
The words in your head and your heart that you just can't explain
I can see clearly,
A face in the sky,
Moon's in your eye,
You're passing me by.
Tell me the reason why.


I can see clearly,
A face in the sky,
Moon's in your eye,
You're passing me by.


Saw you riding on a moon cloud,
Saw you walking on a whirlpool,
From the corner of my eye,
I saw you.


Saw you sitting on a sunbeam,
In the middle of my daydream,
Oh my Lady Fantasy,
I love you.

Still You Turn Me On - ELP

C'est la Vie - ELP

Closer to Believing - ELP

From the Beginning - ELP

Lend Your Love to Me Tonight - ELP

Affairs of the Heart - ELP

Footprints in the Snow - ELP

Take a Pebble - ELP

The Sage - ELP :

Come share of my breath and my substance
And mingle our streams and our times
In bright infinite moments
Our reasons are lost in our eyes.