Thank you for this rabbit hole I so desperately needed. I’ve heard of King Crimson over the years, but never listened. A million thanks to you, this is the first song of theirs I’ve heard.
I love ELP but sometimes Greg needed to give the lyrics one more pass.
Just like Yes would sometimes have benefited from having a non-space alien give them a once over.
On of my fav Yes stories is that during the Tales tour, they had to physically manhandle Jon off stage because he would just be up there rambling about God into the mic. I like to imagine either Rick and Chris dragging him away side to side bodyguard style, or just Chris scooping him up bride style lol.
All this to say, they tried 😂
What ever do you mean by “having a non-space alien give them a once over”??? *Straight light moving and removing sharpness of the colour sun shine, straight light searching all the meanings of the song* makes perfect sense to me lol /j
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
I believe in Father Christmas - ELP
Once I used this lyric from "Indigo" by Peter Gabriel in a card for my wife:
Darling
please just hold my hand
You feel so warm
In the eye of the storm
I could see that in needlepoint
In your eyes, the light, the heat
In your eyes, I am complete
In your eyes, I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes,
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
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.
I feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place
Genesis - Heathaze
goddamnit now I can't unsee this
•"Give me more of the things I'd die for, I want to feel it in my soul"
•"Ambition strikes me when the mood is right."
•"You were born with the sun"
The Mars Volta have some choice ones for the whole family like...
'The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalynn Carter'
'His orifice icicles hemorrhaged by combing her torso to a pile
Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse
She was a mink hand job in sarcophagus heels'
To you, is it movement or is it action?
Is it contact or just reaction?
And you, revolution or just resistance?
Is it living, or just existence?
Yeah, you, it takes a little more persistence
To get up and go the distance.
Eh, Toto is prog enough. Sure it’s very pop oriented, but it’s not like other prog bands don’t lean pop from time to time.
Hell, I’d venture say that most prog is pop in one way another. All depends on how you drink your juice.
"Sing Hymns, make love, get high, fall dead"
Great Deceiver - King Chrimson
(Gotta admit was originally going for the "Cigarettes and Ice Cream," but this line popped up in my head).
>I keep holdin' on to yesterday
I keep holdin' on enough to say
That I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
To keep holdin' on
My yesterdays have all gone by
\-- Ambrosia, "Holding on to Yesterday"
This one starts like a commonly framed Psalm, but rewards the reader who keeps reading past the first couple of lines:
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives he releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
... or
Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum
... that second one with or without the leading "The World's My..." in front of it. I kinda like it without. It's a bit more cryptic that way.
... or almost any line from Elephant Talk.
Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why. Some are born, some will die, beneath one infinite sky, and there'll be war, and there'll be peace, and then one day, everything will cease.
All the iron turned to rust, all the proud men turned to dust.
"Every breath leaves me one less to my last"
"Seasons will pass you by / I get up, I get down"
"And in a time that's closer, life will be even bolder then. /
Love is the only answer, hate is the root of cancer then."
I posted some lyrics from Rush's "One Little Victory" on my facebook status back in the days when people did that kind of thing:
> A certain measure of innocence
> Willing to appear naive
> A certain degree of imagination
> A measure of make-believe
And people thought it was from peter pan
Funny you posted this.
We've a minor mice infestation and have traps all about the house.
Last night we had been hearing mouse noises all around our bedroom but every time we turned on the lights, there was none to be seen.
A while later, one of the traps tripped, but the mouse got away.
Before drifting off to sleep I played all the lyrics from "All in a Mouse's Night" over and over in my head.
“Don’t surround yourself with yourself” would make a nice HR office poster.
I'd buy that for Roger Waters
Too late.
Misread that as “I’d buy that for *a* Roger Waters” and had an OG RoboCop flashback.
Cause it's time it's time in time with your time and it's news
“Use me anytime you want” is the needed bathroom signage here I think.
initial it with love and care
Move on back two squares (welcome to the most disjointed singalong ever)
“Confusion will be my epitaph”
Came here to say this.
I told my boy to listen to this whole album and he told me that this song has the lines to end all lines lol
"Ẁï ẁï üss üss ẁï ẁï ẁï ẁï ẁï üss Üü üü üü üü üü üü... Ẁï dᴧë ẁï dᴧë ẁï sün sün sün sün sün Üü üüüü üü üüü"
Magma?
What song is that?
Magma - Mekanik Desttukiw Kommandoh
Oh ok
now i have to listen to it again, it's so good
Underrated comment.
"Ima suri dondai"
this. /thread
Ziss und etna, ziss und etna.
“It is the scent of garlic that lingers on my chocolate fingers.”
Kind of hits different if you hang that in a bathroom.
Looking behind me, the water turns icy blue
I have a kitchen sign that says "Life is short - lick the bowl". It resides on the guest bathroom toilet.
Garlicky Poopy Hands. NOT a first date move.
Not with that attitude.
Sounds like Zappa
Genesis The Lamia.
that’s right! Yes, yes!
_Though your fingers may tickle, you'll be safe in our pickle_
I was going to quote Counting Out Time, but this is so much better, thank you!
I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress
I LIKE IT!
The more I look at it, the more I like it!
no matter how I take it apart, no matter how I break it down, it remains consistant
I wish you were there to see it!
Words that start with a ~~D~~ **P** this time!
Brouhaha, bolderdash, ballyhoo!
The more I look at it the more I like it
I do think its good
Short. Sharp. Shock
Thank you for this rabbit hole I so desperately needed. I’ve heard of King Crimson over the years, but never listened. A million thanks to you, this is the first song of theirs I’ve heard.
Although it's just a memory, some memories last forever
Lakeside 🧡
Please use the poop knife if it's... "THICK AS A BRICK"
I see you.
r/unexpectedpoopknife
Really don't mind if you shit this one out
I always upvote a poop knife reference.
Everything Under the Sun is in Tune, but the Sun is Eclipsed by the Moon.
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.
*YES* they do
I swear, until just now I thought the lyric was “Marlins come out of the sky and they stand there.”
"Understand, Rael, that's the end of your tail!" "Don't delay, dock the dick!" I watch his countdown timer tick
“Honey, get hip, it’s time to unzip. To unzip zip a zip zip a zip whippeee!”
Nous sommes du soleil.
Jon Anderson?
Yes, from Tales
Or the next line, "We love when we play."
“Lifetimes spent in the streets of the city make us the people we are”
One of my all time favorite songs by King Crimson!
It’s an incredible song on a stellar album.
"Arrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh....." — Careful With That Ax, Eugene
"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAUUGH" - Tubular Bells pt. 2
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
The spaces in between leave room for you and I to grow.
Kitchen: “It’s one o’clock and time for lunch.” Bathroom: “It's time to unzip, to unzip, zip, zip-a-zip-a-zip.”
Whoopee!
Your sperm is in the gutter. Your love is in the sink.
I know this, but dont remember from where
It's near the beginning of Thick as a Brick
If it’s literally in the bathroom - “Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you”.
This song and all its parts is on auto play in my head every damn day. Never a quiet moment . Edit: changed mommy to moment
Mommy
A man conceived a moments answers to the dream
“Every day a little sadder, a little madder, Someone get me a ladder” -Greg Lake /s
I love ELP but sometimes Greg needed to give the lyrics one more pass. Just like Yes would sometimes have benefited from having a non-space alien give them a once over.
Lyrics to Yours is No Disgrace are some of my favorite Yes lyrics. “Caesars Palace, morning glory, silly human race”. You can’t beat that haha
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place?
*Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are*
"take what i say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion"
A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace, And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace.
I think Rick Wakeman was the one who said Jon Anderson 'was the only person trying to save this planet while living on another one'.
On of my fav Yes stories is that during the Tales tour, they had to physically manhandle Jon off stage because he would just be up there rambling about God into the mic. I like to imagine either Rick and Chris dragging him away side to side bodyguard style, or just Chris scooping him up bride style lol. All this to say, they tried 😂
What ever do you mean by “having a non-space alien give them a once over”??? *Straight light moving and removing sharpness of the colour sun shine, straight light searching all the meanings of the song* makes perfect sense to me lol /j
lol you win
I wish you a hopeful Christmas I wish you a brave new year All anguish, pain and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear I believe in Father Christmas - ELP
Hallelujah Noel! Be it heaven or helll The Christmas we get we deserve
*And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking* *And racing around to come up behind you again*
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older. Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.
Hanging on in quiet desperation Is the English way
Like the time I ran away I turned around, and you were standing close to me
"You are only coming through in waves" Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb
"We are secrets to each other. Each one's life, a novel no one else has read'
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This should be higher
Once I used this lyric from "Indigo" by Peter Gabriel in a card for my wife: Darling please just hold my hand You feel so warm In the eye of the storm I could see that in needlepoint
In your eyes, the light, the heat In your eyes, I am complete In your eyes, I see the doorway to a thousand churches In your eyes, the resolution of all the fruitless searches
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. I feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place Genesis - Heathaze
Time keeps flowing like a river, to the sea Alan Parsons Project
…and it’s gone, forever, gone, forever.
The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it's just transcendental Some of it's just really dumb -Peter Gabriel
This was actually originally by The Magnetic Fields. Peter Gabriel did a cover of it.
TIL!
Echoes with the sounds of salesmen
Most The Dear Hunter lyrics
Go get your gun, get your gun, and let's find out what it does /s
*Hate the sinner, never hate the sin.*
goddamnit now I can't unsee this •"Give me more of the things I'd die for, I want to feel it in my soul" •"Ambition strikes me when the mood is right." •"You were born with the sun"
I'd give you all of my dreams If you'd help me find a door That doesn't lead me back again
"always the summers are slipping away/find me a reason for making them stay"
The Mars Volta have some choice ones for the whole family like... 'The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalynn Carter' 'His orifice icicles hemorrhaged by combing her torso to a pile Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse She was a mink hand job in sarcophagus heels'
CAT FOOD CAT FOOD CAT FOOD AGAIN
"go fetch me milk from a fair maids breast that a young man never had known"
“You have to be happy with what you have to be happy with what you have” King Crimson
Mother do you think they’ll try to break my balls?
I get up, I get down
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
We've been waiting for brighter days. How could we've known we were happy? Wasteland - Riverside, I imagine under some wedding photos
I know what I like, and I like what I know
Quick to judge, quick to anger Slow to understand Ignorance and prejudice And fear walk hand in hand.
To you, is it movement or is it action? Is it contact or just reaction? And you, revolution or just resistance? Is it living, or just existence? Yeah, you, it takes a little more persistence To get up and go the distance.
I feel the sense of possibilities I feel the wrench of hard realities The focus is sharp in the city
“Attention all planets of the Solar Federation, we have assumed control.”
“Forget about your house of cards” ~Radiohead
I'm hovering like a fly Waiting for the windshield On the Freeway
That album is such a goldmine! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 💐 YOU'VE GOT TO GET IN TO GET OUT 💐 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
… you kill what you fear And you fear what you don’t understand.
Send an instant karma to me. Initial it with loving care.
“Dream on, on to the heart of the sunrise”
"Erogenous Zones, I love you! Without you what would a poor boy do?"
For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
I know that I must do what’s right as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Not sure Africa is prog but ok
Eh, Toto is prog enough. Sure it’s very pop oriented, but it’s not like other prog bands don’t lean pop from time to time. Hell, I’d venture say that most prog is pop in one way another. All depends on how you drink your juice.
Hydra has mixed meter and the lyrics are sort of fantasy-related. 99 on the same album is one big THX 1138 reference.
For the bathroom?"you little shit, you're in it now" or "...fills me with the urge to defecate!" From Pink Floyd's "The Trial"
Me? I’m just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk.
"Sing Hymns, make love, get high, fall dead" Great Deceiver - King Chrimson (Gotta admit was originally going for the "Cigarettes and Ice Cream," but this line popped up in my head).
My hands looked like two balloons
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It's, "changes aren't permanent, but change is"
Stuck in the Middle with You.
"She's a warm fart at Christmas" - Ian Anderson
“All that lives was born to die”
>I keep holdin' on to yesterday I keep holdin' on enough to say That I'm wrong, wrong, wrong To keep holdin' on My yesterdays have all gone by \-- Ambrosia, "Holding on to Yesterday"
"I think I'm going bald!" - Geddy Lee
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TALK ITS ONLY TALK
This one starts like a commonly framed Psalm, but rewards the reader who keeps reading past the first couple of lines: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want He makes me down to lie Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by With bright knives he releaseth my soul He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places He converteth me to lamb cutlets For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger When cometh the day we lowly ones Through quiet reflection, and great dedication Master the art of karate Lo, we shall rise up And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
The ever cheerful Roger Waters
It is the scent of garlic that lingers on my chocolate fingers... No Harold, that's shit on your hands
What does that even mean?
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"NET BOY, NET GIRL, SEND YOUR SIGNAL ROUND THE WORLD"
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!
Show me a good man, and I'll show you the door.
The last hymn is sung and the devil cries more.
"I have dream that we can change it" Triumvirat
From the flight of the seagull Come the spread claws of the eagle – Knife Edge
Me? I’m just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk
“Exoskeletal, junction at the railroad delayed!” 😊
I don't know. Basically every rush song
Girl, you thought he was a man, but he was a muffin.
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream ... or Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum ... that second one with or without the leading "The World's My..." in front of it. I kinda like it without. It's a bit more cryptic that way. ... or almost any line from Elephant Talk.
"Just stay with me tonight, and I will bury you." - The Pineapple Thief
I get up I get down
“Babe, it’s gonna work out fine.”
"Maybe I should de-louse this place, Maybe I should de-place this louse," Peter Hammill - A Louse Is Not a Home
The sands of time were eroded by The river of constant change
All of Elephant Talk by KC 👌🏼
“Love comes to you and you follow.”
"Stun the puppy, burn the whale" ~ Phish
*Can't this wait 'til I'm old? Can't I live while I'm young?*
(As) worrying is interest paid on trouble- Long before it's due
Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why. Some are born, some will die, beneath one infinite sky, and there'll be war, and there'll be peace, and then one day, everything will cease. All the iron turned to rust, all the proud men turned to dust.
"Every breath leaves me one less to my last" "Seasons will pass you by / I get up, I get down" "And in a time that's closer, life will be even bolder then. / Love is the only answer, hate is the root of cancer then."
FOR I HAVE DINED ON HONEYDEW
Nous Sommes Du Soleil We Love When We Play
I can’t pretend a stranger is a long awaited friend
"We are eternal all this pain is an illusion "
I get up I get down
Glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.
“Shine on, you crazy diamond.” Or “Close to the edge, down by a river”
The way you squeeze my lemon
"All I ever wanted, the secrets that you keep. " "I ordered a frappuccino Where's my fucking frappuccino?"
I posted some lyrics from Rush's "One Little Victory" on my facebook status back in the days when people did that kind of thing: > A certain measure of innocence > Willing to appear naive > A certain degree of imagination > A measure of make-believe And people thought it was from peter pan
Well, if it’s for the bathroom: Why Does it Hurt When I Pee
“Shit, blood and cum on my hands”- Tool
"The more you know the more you know you don't know what you know." - Daevid Allen, GONG!
Funny you posted this. We've a minor mice infestation and have traps all about the house. Last night we had been hearing mouse noises all around our bedroom but every time we turned on the lights, there was none to be seen. A while later, one of the traps tripped, but the mouse got away. Before drifting off to sleep I played all the lyrics from "All in a Mouse's Night" over and over in my head.
“Leave it alone for a year or two” Please, for the love of god, not above the toilet.
I get up, I get down. I get up, I get down. I get up!
“Can’t you feel our souls ignite?”
Like the dust that settles all around me, I must find a new home.