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What's your favourite song lyrics and why?

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Nimbus · M
Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a Blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the real

Drowning in the liquid seize on the Piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth
Caress Ophelia's hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition
Sheathed within the Walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation
She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck

From the Time-Life-Guardians in their conscience bubbles
Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Nine to five with suitable ties
Cast adrift as their side-show, peepshow, stereo hero
Becalm bestill, bewitch, drowning in the real

The thief of Baghdad hides in Islington now
Praying deportation for his sacred cow
A legacy of romance from a twilight world
The dowry of a relative mystery girl
A Vietnamese flower, a Dockland union
A mistress of release from a magazine's thighs
Magdalenes contracts more than favours
The feeding hands of western promise hold her by the throat

A son of a swastika of '45 parading a peroxide standard
Graffiti disciples conjure testaments of hatred
Aerosol wands whisper where the searchlights trim the barbed wire hedges
This is Brixton chess

A knight for Embankment folds his newspaper castle
A creature of habit, begs the boatman's coin
He'll fade with old soldiers in the grease stained roll call
And linger with the heartburn of Good Friday's last supper

Son watches father scan obituary columns in search of absent school friends
While his generation digests high fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains and the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide, provided door to door Belsens
Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens
Waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration
Radioactive perfumes, for the fashionably, for the terminally insane, insane.
Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens
Waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration
Radioactive perfumes, for the fashionably, for the terminally insane, insane
Do you realise? Do you realise?
Do you realise, this world is totally fugazi

Where are the prophets, where are the visionaries, where are the poets
To breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary

Marillion: Fugazi
uncalled4 · 56-60, M
@Nimbus I used to play the opening on piano. Fun pattern.
caesar7 · 61-69, M
@Nimbus Fish and the boys...great song!
Nimbus · M
@caesar7 The proper Marillion ;)
caesar7 · 61-69, M
@Nimbus Indeed....it took me some time to adjust to H replacing Fish. But in the end, I did. I saw them in concert twice. I just wished I would have seen the band with DD at the helm!
Nimbus · M
@caesar7 I'm glad you managed to adjust.
I tried and tried with H but it just didn't 'click'.
Awww, that is my regret too along with never seeing Pink Floyd in concert.
caesar7 · 61-69, M
@Nimbus That makes two of us....saw Gilmour and Waters solo. My brother has seen PF at an outdoor show in Hamilton, Ontario back while they were promoting WYWH!! He came back as if he saw Christ himself!!!!!
caesar7 · 61-69, M
@Nimbus He also came back with a garbage bag of marijuana that some dude left behind. He said there was a deep haze that added to the ambiance because everyone smoked the stuff. I laughed so hard when he told me this. Can you imagine? Gotta love the 70's!! 😆
Nimbus · M
@caesar7 lolol, as long as the haze didn't spoil the view I'd take a toke ;)
caesar7 · 61-69, M
@Nimbus Exactly. They were stoned of course. They were offered to smoke some as people passed it around. But he was mid-field and said he could just make the band out and that distance. They played "Echoes" and he said that was the icing on the cake. Can you imagine being high and hearing that tune playing? I would have had an out-of-body experience for sure!!!! 😆