 Genius Lyrics
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Marillion – Childhood's End?
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And it was morning / And I found myself mourning for a childhood / That I thought had disappeared / I looked out the window / And I saw a magpie in the rainbow / The rain had gone
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Marillion – Lavender
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I was walking in the park / Dreaming of a spark / When I heard the sprinklers whisper, shimmer / In the haze of summer lawns / Then I heard the children singing / They were running
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Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot
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“Fugi” is a corruption of “Thuggee,” a reference to an organized gang of professional assassins who operated in South Asia from about the 13th to 19th centuries. They murdered travelers and stole their belongings, using a knotted scarf to strangle them.
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Marillion – Seasons End
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Getting close to seasons end / I heard somebody say / That it might never snow again / In England / Snow flakes in a newborn fist / Sledging on a hill / Are these things we'll
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Marillion – Care
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[i Maintenance Drugs] / They give me maintenance drugs / Said I’ll be okay / They give me maintenance drugs / They said I’d be okay / So I’m taking my time / Living from day to day
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Ignoring beckoning doors
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The song is about getting up courage to “take a leap of faith.” leaving the comfort of present existence to take a shot at something more. At the beginning of the song, he realizes there are opportunities, but instead chooses to stay stuck in the past.
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Marillion – Fugazi
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A sweeping lament for the ills of society, as well as for the singer’s loneliness, depression, and (possibly) alcoholism.
“Fugazi” was an acronym coined by US soldiers in the
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Marillion – Sugar Mice
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This song explores the life of a deadbeat, careless and alcoholic father who still cares about his family deep down. Sugar Mice are a popular sweet that melts easily in your mouth.
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Marillion – Incubus
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When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion / Forewarned, my audience leaves the stage / Floating ahead perfumed shift / Within the stammering silence / The face that
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Marillion – Blind Curve
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[I. Vocal Under a Bloodlight] / Last night you said I was cold, untouchable / A lonely piece of action from another town / I just want to be free, I'm happy to be lonely / Can't
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Marillion – Reprogram The Gene
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[i Invincible] / I don’t want to be a boy / I don’t want to be a girl / I want to be happy / I want to be clever / In no pain whatsoever / I want to be invincible / I want some
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Marillion – Warm Wet Circles
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The second track on Clutching at Straws continues the story of Torch and his struggle with self doubt and alcoholism.
“Warm Wet Circles” was the third single from Marillion’s
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Marillion – Bitter Suite
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[I. Brief Encounter] / A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow / Not the regal creature of border caves / But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar of some
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Marillion – No One Can
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You landed in my life / Like a new and brighter light / That made all my past seem in shadow / I always used to believe / That beauty was skin deep / But I need a new word to
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Marillion – Kayleigh
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Marillion – Script for a Jester's Tear
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So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts / One more experience, one more entry in a diary, self-penned / Yet another emotional suicide / Overdosed on sentiment
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When the darkness takes me over / Face down, emptier than zero / Invisible you come to me / ..quietly
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This refers to the frist song of the album. ‘The invisible man’ your conscience comes to haunt you at night, especially when you have a troubled mind. (when darkness takes you over, face down, emptier than zero)
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Marillion – Sierra Leone
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[i Chance In A Million] / I found this object deep below the ground / Chance in a million under rubbish town / Where little barefoot children scratch around / Fishing for treasure
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Heorot
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Heorot, meaning “hart” or “stag,” was the name of Hrothgar’s hall.
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Divided we stand, together we'll rise
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This line quotes, though reversing it, Pink Floyd song “Hey you” (from “The Wall”): “Together we stand, divided we fall”
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Marillion – Pseudo Silk Kimono
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Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono / Wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding / Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears / Safe in my own words
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You pick out your credit cards and check into the night
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Picking out credit cards has the implication that the person in question (lady Nina), uses her charms to make other people pay for her. Using people for their credit cards
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Marillion – Heart of Lothian
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[I. Wide Boy] / Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian / Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian / Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of
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Marillion – White Russian
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The sixth track on Clutching at Straws continues the story of Torch and his struggle with self doubt and alcoholism.
“White Russian” deals with the rise of neo-Nazism and violence
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Marillion – Easter
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A ghost of a mist was on the field / The grey and the green together / The noise of a distant farm machine / Out of the first light came / A tattered necklace of hedge and trees
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Marillion – Hotel Hobbies
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The opening track on Clutching at Straws introduces the listener to the character of Torch, an alter ego for Marillion vocalist and lyricist Derek William Dick (a.k.a. Fish) and
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Marillion – Marbles I
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Did anyone see my last marble / As it rolled out and over the floor? / It fell through a hole in the corner / Of a room in a town on a tour / It's lonely without your last marble
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Marillion – Chelsea Monday
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Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress / Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town / Awaiting the prince in his white Capri / Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen
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Marillion – Gaza
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When I was young it all seemed like a game / Living here brought no sense of shame / But now I'm older I've come to understand / Once we had houses, once we had land / They rained
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Marillion – Genie
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[One Way Street] / I let the genie out of the box / I let the genie out of the box / I'm scared of everything I am / I let the genie out of the box / [I'm scared of opening the can
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Marillion – Gazpacho
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Saw you walking on your velvet lawn / Is it lonely on the moon? / You took a dive and swallowed all you could / Did you drink too much too soon? / Nothing left for you to fight
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Marillion – The Last Straw/Happy Ending
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Hotel hobbies padding dawn's hollow corridors / A typewriter cackles out a stream of memories / Drying out a conscience, evicting a nightmare / Opening the doors for the dreams to
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Marillion – That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)
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The third track on Clutching at Straws continues the story of Torch and his struggle with self doubt and alcoholism.
The title refers to the darkest hours of the night when the
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Bilston Glen
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Bilston Glen was a large colliery in Midlothian, Scotland. It closed permanently in 1989, laying off many Scottish workers.
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Marillion – 100 Nights
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A hundred nights of fun and games / A thousand empty glasses / I feel it change / And stay the same / As each day passes / They invite me to their gatherings / In the finer parts
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Die Berliner Mauer
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“The Berlin Wall” in German
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