PAWN HEARTS

this is one of prog-rock greatest albums, and is truely deserved to be called a masterpiece. it contains the good 'lemmings'; the excellent 'man-erg' which is about a man who is half- killer half-angel, and is being controlled by them, while ht emembers of the group make it perfectly clear when we are in the 'killer' zone; and at last the great masterpiece (which can be considered as a classic music piece for a rock group). the latter describes the intolerable didds which a lighthouse keeper has to suffer. think about this: you're a lighthouse keeper, stranded alone or with another keeper, somewhere in the middle of nowhere between seas, and your job is to keep the light on the lighthouse on so that ships can see their way through, only you have no control on what happens to them besides keeping the light on. what happens when you see a ship coming near a shoal, and you have nothing to do about it when you know it's bitter end before it has happened? that's what Peter Hammill is trying, and succeeds in getting through to the listener. an unforgotable epus, surely on of it's kind.