more (Marillion) Lyrics

I just started adding new playlists to my iPod, it makes me wonder why I have not done this already ages ago.
My latest kick it listening to my Marillion folder, I have a whole Caselogic binder of Marillion CD's but the main albums I love I have put on my iPod, and am having such a good time revisiting the anthology... what a bunch of talented guys.. and so often I find myself thinking, 'Oh I haven't heard that one for AGES!'

More importantly than that I can revisit my life for the last 17 years quite often depending on which album I was listening to, but almost none had the affect of Brave on me....

one of my favorites from the CD:
.......
It makes you hungry and it makes you high
It makes you suffer and it makes you cry
It makes you panic and it makes you vain
It makes you primitive and sick inside
It makes you angry and it makes you blind
It makes you guilty and it makes you lie
Tied up and beaten
Spat out and eaten
Suicidal

Nothing's ever been as hard

Well I hear that were lookin' out to change my faith
You can bash me with your book of words, hammer me down
But you know that love can be as hard as six inch nails
Baby nothing else has ever been as hard as love

Hard as love


Visit Marillion.com for a better way of Life.. or at least to see some great photos (some of which are by me!). Under the band link and then photos you get a rotating bunch which is really nice to look at.

Gutters full of rain

I was riding my bike to work this morning (in the rain) and as usual had my iPod on shuffle. This song came on and I thought it was really beautiful as is so many of David Gray's songs:
From the album Sell Sell Sell.

GUTTERS FULL OF RAIN

A gutter full of rain
An empty picture frame
A house out at the edges of the city
Never noticing the war
'Til it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody

I was seeking to possess
Now another girl's caress
Is on your flesh
The bitterness is tasted
There's nobody in your chair
No hand to touch my hair
The sun even the air seems wasted

Let it go now
Let it all slip away
And we'll start it all over again
Me like a million
Others before
Trying to make sense of the rain

In spite of all the shame
Sometimes I hear your name
I think of us when we were younger
Then I'm shutting out the noise
And I'm trying to hear the voice
That used to tell me love was stronger

Light another cigarette
But the one I got's still lit
I can't seem to keep my fingers steady
Never noticing the war
Til it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody