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For me, it's usually the lyrics in prog that let me down. There are good lyrics but there seem to be a lot of stinkers. One that comes to mind is  "Nobody Loves You Like I Do", that line "They will take away your t-shirt." I see what they meant but that's just a bit corny for me. 
 
I agree that Oldfield's "Moonlight Shadow" was just a bit of laziness, I mean they could at least have made it  "Four o'clock in the morning..." Not much better but at least it removes the redundancy.
 
 
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Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:

 
Yes - Parallels (something about building a tower....an ever-opening flower....you know you have the power.)  EWWWWDead   another good song (dig that church organ) but this time those lyrics are just bloody awful...actually I usually really like Jon's lyrics unlike most people, but he could creep into cheesy/generic territory at times (now, mind you, it's nothing like some 90's bands...ahem...Pendragon....Flower Kings, yuck).
 


Parallels' lyrics were written by Chris Squire, not Jon. Smile

"I'm a dinosaur" - Adrian Belew

"I am a camera" - Trevor Horn

"I am yourself" - Keith Emerson
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Originally posted by Kim Ankara Kim Ankara wrote:

Parallels' lyrics were written by Chris Squire, not Jon.


True, and rarely has a prog musician sounded more self-satisfied. Or what do you make of: "I've been all around the world / and seen so many faces / young and old, a story told / filling in my spaces"?
The whole wide world's just there to fill in Mr. Squire's spaces! As he sang elsewhere: "All you've got to do is hold out your hand / for the treasures of the Universe are lying at your feet".
All this roughly at the time postwar Britain suffered record unemployment and the Sex Pistols were screaming about "NO FUTURE". All it takes is cheek!
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Originally posted by Kim Ankara Kim Ankara wrote:

Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:

 
Yes - Parallels (something about building a tower....an ever-opening flower....you know you have the power.)  EWWWWDead   another good song (dig that church organ) but this time those lyrics are just bloody awful...actually I usually really like Jon's lyrics unlike most people, but he could creep into cheesy/generic territory at times (now, mind you, it's nothing like some 90's bands...ahem...Pendragon....Flower Kings, yuck).
 


Parallels' lyrics were written by Chris Squire, not Jon. Smile
Embarrassed well that explains why it didn't seem quite right
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Originally posted by fuxi fuxi wrote:

Originally posted by Kim Ankara Kim Ankara wrote:

Parallels' lyrics were written by Chris Squire, not Jon.


True, and rarely has a prog musician sounded more self-satisfied. Or what do you make of: "I've been all around the world / and seen so many faces / young and old, a story told / filling in my spaces"?
The whole wide world's just there to fill in Mr. Squire's spaces! As he sang elsewhere: "All you've got to do is hold out your hand / for the treasures of the Universe are lying at your feet".
All this roughly at the time postwar Britain suffered record unemployment and the Sex Pistols were screaming about "NO FUTURE". All it takes is cheek!
maybe he was talking about how much he loves Myspace (1977? so what, maybe he could see the future from his "shining tower")

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Dreamer by Supertramp.
"Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!"
No I can't put my hands in my head. That would hurt.
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was it you or was it me?
or was it he or she?
was it a or was it b?
or was it x or z?

o-weena o-weena o-weena

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Originally posted by Norbert Norbert wrote:

It's rather a misunderstood one:

I heard the following line in Cinema Show:
TESCO operates...
What?Shocked
I looked at the boolet:Tess cooperates, OK that's better...
 
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All of the lyrics on DT's Systematic Chaos. They really ruined the album for me
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Originally posted by Snipergoat Snipergoat wrote:

All of the lyrics on DT's Systematic Chaos. They really ruined the album for me


What are you talking about? The lyrics on that album were brilliant!

"Traveling through both space and time
outta body outta mind"

Alright, maybe not. Someone should inform Mike Portnoy that everybody is traveling through both space and time. It doesn't make him special.Angry
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I hate the line on Close to the Edge, "Rearrange his liver to the solid mantle grace."

I like cheese and I like metal! --Mikael Åkerfeldt
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Originally posted by Harry Hood Harry Hood wrote:

Originally posted by Snipergoat Snipergoat wrote:

All of the lyrics on DT's Systematic Chaos. They really ruined the album for me


What are you talking about? The lyrics on that album were brilliant!

"Traveling through both space and time
outta body outta mind"

Alright, maybe not. Someone should inform Mike Portnoy that everybody is traveling through both space and time. It doesn't make him special.Angry
Reminds me of:
"I am a traveller of both time and space.."
 
Yes Plant, we all are.LOL
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I hate all of the lyrics to The Great Deceiver, specially this part:

Health-food fa**** with a bartered bride
Likes to comb his hair with a dipper ride
Once had a friend with a cloven foot
Once he called the tune in a chequered quit
Confused
It seems Crimson's lyrics are taking quite a beat.
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I love the lyrics on Systematic Chaos
stuff like The Dark Eternal Night shows they're not being so dire as they were in the past (like Octavarium)
would I have preferred in depth lyrics? I dont know and don't care


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Where is your face
In a safe of dead tongues
I can see your reflection
In your totem first born
I suspect you've been carrying a pack of wolves
I regret not killing you when I had the chance

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Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

I love the lyrics on Systematic Chaos
stuff like The Dark Eternal Night shows they're not being so dire as they were in the past (like Octavarium)
would I have preferred in depth lyrics? I dont know and don't care


"Take me far away
Close your eyes
And hold your breath
To the ends of the earth"


Hmmmmmmmm.....................
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Oh Jesus, Peter Gabriel, you are my hero, but please, PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN WORDS! Here are a few crackers:
The Colony of Slippermen- "shoobeedoob"
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight- "unifaun"
The Colony of Slippemen- "slubberdegullian" (this one might be a real word actually)

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Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat?
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Something by Opeth, like I HEAR THEM DEVOURIIIING... BEST MADE TACOS OF THE EARTH!
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^ hehehe, if making up words was grifmelsmeter enough for Shakespeare then it's grifmelsmeter enough for Gabriel
What?
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Originally posted by electricsilence electricsilence wrote:

I hate all of the lyrics to The Great Deceiver, specially this part:

Health-food fa**** with a bartered bride
Likes to comb his hair with a dipper ride
Once had a friend with a cloven foot
Once he called the tune in a chequered quit
Confused
It seems Crimson's lyrics are taking quite a beat.


Great Deciever was written by Fripp, and I believe it is the only song he wrote lyrics to.  It's pretty bad.  I dig the lyrics by Sinfield, Palmer-James, and Belew though. 

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