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Prog Quotebook
Here are some of my favorite quotes taken from various progressive rock/metal songs.
I will be adding more as time allows.
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Angra : Andre Matos- "Gentle Change"
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"Lighting up another cigarrette,
Playing cool, while cracking up inside,
Saying hi to people's like saying goodbye,
Laughing, but wishing to cry…"
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Arena : Clive Nolan- "Tears in the Rain"
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"Don't offer sympathy when you've just walked away.
Don't play apologies and sentimental games.
I stood before the world and gave you my heart,
And it may never beat again!
Don't give me hollow tears and empty cries of shame.
Don't try to turn away by throwing me the blame.
I stood before the world and gave you my soul,
And now I'm living in the rain!"
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Atomic Opera : Frank Hart- "Muse"
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"Too many cameras, and not enough vision
Far too many lovers who were never friends
Too many directions to too many places
Too many beginnings and very few ends"
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Clockwork : Doug Gillin / Chris Pignatelli- "One Wing"
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"I watch my friends soar like doves -
Sitting below, gazing above -
With only half of the feathers that were meant for me,
A picture, a palace in the sky - I will never see."
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Clockwork : Douglas Joseph Matthew Gillin- "The Guardin' of Eden"
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"Look! Look at what I lost to!
Look at what you let accost you!
Wrapping in and all around you,
Loving all the venom running down you.
Killing all the grass under the tree,
Killing heaven, killing me.
No one's got a better view.
He's in so deep he's coming out the other end of you!"
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Clockwork : Tom Gammarino- "Design of Enlightenment"
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"Scabbard-trapped swords of forged philosophy,
Gouging out these eyes that only wish to see.
Still, I cannot help but to believe
There must be something to be found,
In breaking these chains that break me"
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Divine Regale : Dwight Hill- "Change?"
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"An idea comes to mind,
Paint a picture for the blind,
As the pen reaches the paper
And the words they find their rhyme…"
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Divine Regale : Dwight Hill- "Underworld"
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"Now years later, the memories so strong -
The day I witnessed what the dragons had done.
My father's tale had come to life, am I the child that makes it right?
I've seen the magic dragons and their many evil forms.
So rich and unfeeling they've all become.
I'm just a child so young, I'm no army I'm just one"
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Dream Theater : John Myung- "Learning to Live"
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"The way your heart sounds makes all the difference.
It's what decides if you'll endure the pain that we all feel.
The way your heart beats makes all the difference
In learning to live.
Spread before you is your soul,
So forever hold the dreams within our hearts,
Through nature's inflexible grace,
I'm learning to live"
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Dream Theater : John Petrucci- "Hollow Years"
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"Once the stone
You're crawling under
Is lifted off your shoulders,
Once the cloud that's raining
Over your head disappears,
The noise that you'll hear,
Is the crashing down of hollow years."
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Dream Theater : Kevin Moore- "Don't Look Past Me"
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"I don't need one thousand reasons
When someone starts to cry.
When someone says 'my heart needs lifting,'
Don't ask 'how come?'
Ask 'how high?'"
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Dream Theater : Kevin Moore- "6:00"
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"Melody walks through the door
and memory flies out the window
and nobody knows what they want
'til they finally let it all go,
But don't cut your losses to soon
'cause you'll only be cutting your throat
And answer a call while you still hear at all
'cause nobody will if you won't."
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Dream Theater : Kevin Moore- "Only a Matter of Time"
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"Likely or not, it's a dream that we keep
and at odds with our senses we'll climb.
But if faith is the answer, we've already reached it,
And if spirit's a sign then it's only a matter of time."
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Enchant : Douglas A Ott- "Enchanted"
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"And the ones who let their hearts rule their minds
will burn their bridges when they've crossed,
and leave the world behind…"
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Enchant : Paul Craddick- "In the Dark"
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"Lives are running novels
At times you read, at times you write
The choice of which to do
Might keep you awake at night"
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Enchant : Ted Leonard- "My Enemy"
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"And the target's well with in my sights
But my hands won't release the bow
I've been pulling back on it so long
I've forgotten how to let it go
And I know I have the means
But my will is gone
And I fear I won't succeed
So I'm holding on"
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Enchant : Ted Leonard- "Under the Sun"
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"I've spent my life searching for something to keep me constantly content,
And now I'm left here with a longing for what I've spent"
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Eternity X : Keith Sudano- "Eulogy"
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"For all of those who knew me,
I hope I didn't let you down.
For all of those who loved me,
There was a different side you found.
And in my life, I've struggled,
To be the best I could,
I had my doubts, I cried a lot,
More than any person should.
And I felt you all should know now
There was a side of me not known,
Sometimes I was laughing,
When I didn't want to be alone.
And I was all right ... most of the time,
I was all right ... most of the time,
...most of the time…"
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Eternity X : Keith Sudano- "A Day in Verse"
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"And it will be okay,
Things will be all right tomorrow,
After all, we made it through yesterday…"
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Fates Warning : Frank Aresti- "A World Apart"
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"Praised are those with fashions grand,
self concern leads their plans.
A moment's craze and natural crime
subserves a world to malignant minds."
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Fates Warning : Jim Matheos- "Nothing Left to Say"
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"Behind the ambitions
of a child who found his way,
there's a cold realization
that our deeds die with the day.
And behind the disguise
of a man with a cause,
there's a child screaming
with nothing left to say."
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Fates Warning : Jim Matheos- "Island in the Stream"
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"Have you stood at the edge of the world,
where the sea and sky collide,
looked out to a distant horizon
and dreamed of drifting away?
Have you stood beneath a troubled sky,
and watched the dark clouds gathering,
closed your eyes to the threatening tide
and woke to another day?"
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Fates Warning : Jim Matheos- "A Pleasant Shade of Gray"
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"This shade of gray / this certain sadness
this cold morning light / this silent madness
hangs in the air / hangs like a memory
hangs like a cloud / hangs on desperately
between dark and light / between was and be
between young and old / between you and me
between you and me…"
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Fates Warning : Jim Matheos- "Circles"
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"Circles within circles,
Hoping one more turn will bring us to the end.
When truth and fiction finally meet, we find again
New beginnings become old ends.
Circles within circles,
Hoping one more turn will bring us to the end.
When the circle's complete, we find ourselves
Starting all over again."
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Galacatic Cowboys : Monty Colvin- "Disney's Spinnin'"
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"Inconceived by a small mistake
Mother chooses to exterminate.
I wonder what the forefathers would say,
The land of the free, home of the depraved"
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Ice Age : Josh Pincus- "When You're Ready"
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"I lingered long
On the isle of Avalon,
And dined on the apples that fell.
I slept like a babe in the arms of dawn,
And arose feeling rested and well"
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Ice Age : Josh Pincus- "One Look Away"
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"You're staring right through
Like my heart is made of glass,
But what am I to you,
Some clown who makes you laugh?
Can't you see this is flesh and bone?
Though my heart is made of clay,
As sure as I'm alone
I'm just one look away"
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IQ : Peter Nicholls- "The Sense in Sanity"
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"Nothing here is guaranteed, nothing's understood.
Now that I am beyond beginning to belong,
Maybe I don't understand the sequence as I should.
Can't tell left from right from wrong -
God from bad from good"
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Jacobs Dream : David Taylor- "Scape Goat"
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"Gaze into the children's eyes
Behold a window to the soul
Images of light and darkness
Inner conflict to behold
Government and selfserving people
Have torn apart the heart of the home
And now we run in search for excuses
To give account for the monsters we've made…"
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King's X : Doug Pinnick- "Goldilox"
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"I can't believe summer's almost here
I made it through another year
(even if alone)
But there's no tears in my eyes
Life is still full of surprise
I'm not looking for a one night stand…"
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Leviathan : John Lutzow- "Disenchanted Dreams (of Conformity)"
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"Fashions play on trends, frozen in expiring devotion
Moving in circles lead by blind, unguided truth.
Fear of standing alone for what one believes
Leaves one solution, one emotion…"
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Marillion : Fish- "Cinderella Search"
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"Maybe it was infatuation,
or the thrill of the chase
Maybe you were always beyond my reach,
and my heart was playing safe
But was that love in your eyes I saw?
Or the reflection of mine?
I'll never really know for sure
You never really gave me time...."
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Marillion : Fish- "Warm Wet Circles"
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"I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths,
A classroom's shabby butterflies,
Flirt in the glow of stranded telephone boxes.
Planning white lace weddings
From smeared hearts and token proclamations,
Rolled from stolen lipsticks
Across the razored webs of glass.
Sharing cigarettes with experience
With her giggling jealous confidantes,
She faithfully traces his name
With quick bitten fingernails.
Through the tears of condensation
That'll cry through the night,
As the glancing headlights of the last bus
Kiss adolescence goodbye,
In a warm wet circle."
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Marillion : Fish- "Script for a Jester's Tear"
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"The fool escaped from paradise
will look over his shoulder and cry
Sit and chew on daffodils
and struggle to answer why?
As you grow up and leave the playground
Where you kissed your prince and found your frog
Remember the jester that showed you tears,
the script for tears…"
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Marillion : Fish- "Kayleigh"
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"Do you remember
chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?
Do you remember
dawn escapes from moon-washed college halls?
Do you remember
the cherry blossom in the market square?
Do you remember?
I thought it was confetti in our hair
By the way, didn't I break your heart?
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart
So sorry, I never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine"
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Marillion : Fish- "Bitter Suite"
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"On the outskirts of nowhere,
On the ringroad to somewhere,
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way…"
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Marillion : Steve Hogarth- "Fantastic Place"
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"Say you understand me
And I will leave myself completely
Forgive me if I stare
But I can see the island behind your tired, troubled eyes
Take me to the island
I'll tell you all I never told you
The boy I never showed you
More than I gave in my life
Take me by the hand
You'll either kill me or you'll save me
Take me to the island
Show me what might be real life"
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Marillion : Steve Hogarth- "The Last of You"
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"So tell me more,
About the love that you rejected.
Tell me more,
About the trust you disrespected.
I still don't know, Why did you hurt the very one,
Why did you hurt the very one, that you should have protected?"
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Marillion : Steve Hogarth- "Beyond You"
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"If I was a child,
I would refuse to leave,
I would sit down on the street,
Kick my legs and scream.
I'm not much of a man,
But I know how I am,
I know this won't fade away,
I will pretend and be strong,
But I wonder where I belong…"
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Marillion : Steve Hogarth- "When I Meet God"
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"And if the bottle's no solution,
Why does it feel so warm?
And if that girl is no solution,
Why did she feel so warm?
And if to feel is no solution,
Why do I feel?
Why do I feel so tired?
Why do I feel so broken?
Why do I feel so outside?
Why do I seem so blind?
...I'm so sick of feeling, it's ruined my life."
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Marillion : Steve Hogarth- "Estonia"
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"Finding the answer / It's a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea,
'Cause nobody knows / And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness"
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Marillion : Steve Hogarth- "You're Gone"
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"You're gone.
As suddenly as you came to me
Like nightfall followed dawn without a day between
You're gone.
And suddenly I can't see
I'm in the shadow of you, I'm in the shadow of you
I can see you in my minds rose-tinted eye
Somewhere you're drifting by
Your heels rolling sparks on the lucky street
While here am I, left behind
Stunned and blind
But I can see you from here, I can see you so clear"
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Marillion : Steve Hogarth- "The Damage"
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"Don't give me what's in the window, babe
I want the stuff you think would never sell
Whatcha have under the counter? on the bottom shelf?
I'll buy the lowdown, deepdown, primal, truthful, self…"
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Pain of Salvation : Daniel Gildenlow- "In the Flesh"
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"Some wear their bruises on their skin,
Others hide their scars deep within,
She has a wound close to her womb,
Blames herself for letting it in."
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Pain of Salvation : Daniel Gildenlow- "Undertow"
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"Let me break!
Let me bleed!
Let me tear myself apart I need to breathe!
Let me lose my way!
Let me walk astray!
Maybe to proceed...
Just let me bleed!
Let me drain!
Let me die!
Let me break the things I love I need to cry!
Let me burn it all!
Let me take my fall!
Through the cleansing fire!
Now let me die!
Let me die…"
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Pain of Salvation : Daniel Gildenlow- "Beyond the Pale"
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"And I remember when you said you've been UNDER him
I was suprised to feel such pain
And all those years of being faithful to YOU
Despite the hunger flowing through my veins
And I have always tried to calm things down
Swallow down, swallow down!
"It's just another small thorn in my crown"
But suddenly one day there was too much blood in my eyes,
And I had to take this walk down Remedy Lane of whens and whys…"
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Pain of Salvation : Daniel Gildenlow- "Ending Theme"
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"To be honest, I don't know what I'm looking for,
Who to be, sitting here as once before,
Weeks ago, just waiting for a knock on that door
And I have left all I thought was me to find out,
To make sure if it was you or me
That made me feel so free and real,
But when we kiss I don't know,
I just don't know
'Cause it leaves a taste of emptiness,
And I think, what if I'm simply depressed?
Blind, just finding temporary rest from my mind here in Budapest?
Confusing zest with the joy of being blessed
With the bliss of self-escape as we kiss?
And mixing my being unstressed with your being undressed
And the taste of being true with the fresh taste of me and you
as we touch?
I don't know, but I saw so much of me in you,
the me I've missed, the young and free in you
but still, that doesn't mean a thing,
May not mean anything about my needing you
But I guess we had to meet, to be near
To make sure, and still my dear
Beyond this bed and that door, to be honest, I fear
I just don't know!"
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Pain of Salvation : Daniel Gildenlow- "Leaving Entropia"
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"Life is flair / A brittle dress we wear,
A fleeting sigh.
Though pointless it may seem:
Live as if death were but a dream"
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Pain of Salvation : Daniel Gildenlow- "! (Foreward)"
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"Walk with me!
There are worlds to see!
Listen to me now ... you!
Listen to me now ... you!
Do my words mean more to hear,
When I am standing here,
On a stage like all your silly idols do!?!"
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Queensryche : Chris DeGarmo- "Bridge"
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"You say, 'Son let's forget the past,
I want another chance, gonna make it last.'
You're begging me for a brand new start -
Trying to mend a bridge that's been blown apart,
But you know ... you never built it, Dad!"
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Rush : Neil Peart- "Sweet Miracle"
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"I wasn't walking on water,
I was standing on a reef when the tied came in
Swept beneath the surface,
Lost without a trace,
No hope at all, no hope at all…"
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Rush : Neil Peart- "Circumstances"
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"All the same / We take our chances,
Laughed at by Time / Tricked by circumstances,
Plus ça change / Plus c'est la même chose,
The more that things change,
The more they stay the same"
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Rush : Neil Peart- "The Spirit of Radio"
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of music,
But glittering prizes and endless compromises,
Shatter the illusion of integrity."
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Rush : Neil Peart- "The Pass"
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"All of us get lost in the darkness,
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars."
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Rush : Neil Peart- "Limelight"
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"All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players,
Performers and portrayers,
Each another's audience outside the gilded stage"
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Savatage : Paul O'Neill- "Watching You Fall"
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"Is there a trick to the art of not feeling?
Safe in our world while another's child bleeds,
Praying that God won't demand a redealing
Of cards we have held and pretend we don't need."
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Savatage : Paul O'Neill- "Believe"
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"I am the way, I am the light,
I am the dark inside the night,
I hear your hopes, I feel your dreams,
And in the dark I hear your screams,
Don't turn away, just take my hand,
And when you make your final stand,
I'll be right there, I'll never leave,
All I ask of you ... believe."
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Shadow Gallery : Carl Cadden-James- "Dance of Fools"
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"Tonight I shall cast a stone into the sea of sorrow,
Its waves they crash beneath my feet.
Sorrow binds you to a life not worth living,
Unto that mortal life you cling.
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Stripped of all your earthly pride with the fools you dance
tonight…"
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Skyclad : Martin Walkyier- "Postcard from Planet Earth"
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"I am the mariner, who navigated seas celestial.
Astronaut ambassador sent to foreign shores terrestrial.
Now with hindsight I admit, I don't admire the humans' lot:
Frail bodies - fragile, ill equipped, their lives are hard (but they are not)"
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Skyclad : Martin Walkyier- "A Badtime Story"
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"I've tried to stay positive, strived to be nice,
I turn the other cheek so I get hurt twice.
I've been forced to smile, and drop my guard,
I seized the day but it bit me hard!"
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Skyclad : Martin Walkyier- "Jumping My Shadow"
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"Maybe someday someone will love me
For what I am (instead of what I should be).
Until that day I'll just sit here weeping -
Chasing dreams is like shadow leaping"
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Skyclad : Martin Walkyier- "If I Die Laughing, It'll be an Act of God"
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"Life's one big disaster,
I hear the sounds of laughter
Coming from The Hereafter (I find it kind of odd).
We're stooges for Jehovah
He loves to knock us over -
So if I die laughing it'll be an act of God!"
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Skyclad : Martin Walkyier- "Land of the Rising Slum"
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"I find it hard to sleep at night
I feel that the worst is yet to come,
Social helter-skelter ride
The downward spiral has begun.
Are some people just born bad
Or is it how we all become?
Human termites driven mad
In the concrete mound of the rising slum…"
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Spock's Beard : Neal Morse- "Thoughts (part II)"
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"You wouldn't speak to me
I would be left behind
We'd be through, if you knew
All the things in my mind.
I'd probably feel worse
You'd probably scream and shout,
Scratch and curse, or even worse:
Quietly shut me out!"
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra : Paul O'Neill- "Promises to Keep"
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"If this kindness we feel is just pretending
If we pretend long enough,
Never giving up,
It just might be who we are."
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Virgin Steele : David DeFeis- "Forever Will I Roam"
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"Forever will I roam,
A touch for a moment, a scar for life.
Silent drifter on the highway side,
The heart of an angel, a killer's eyes."
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