Gentle Giant was a British United Kingdom progressive rock band band (music) active between 1970 and 1980. The band was notable for the particular complexity and sophistication of its musical material and for the diverse musical skills of its members (all of whom, bar the first two drummers, were accomplished multi-instrumentalists). Although they were not successful, they were able to "rock the roof" and had many die-hard fans. The most... [read more] - Friends
FRIENDSWhere would I be without friends, to take good care of me,My friends,What would I do I would be aloneOn my own.Enemies, some say add spice to your lifeBut I've always hated to be so dislikedI cant see why in...
- No Stranger
No stranger, No danger in your home.It's walking, It's talking on it's own.No stranger, No danger in your home.It's walking, It's talking on it's own.One staring eye with no sight or featureIt only winks, when there's...
- Rock Climber
Rock climber, Good-timer, Backstager, All-nighterRock climber, Good-timer, follows the songs through the nightIn the nightBackstager, All-nighter, Fills you with praise till it's light.She's waited for you (or me)....
- Take Me
- Words From The Wise
Words from the wise, encourage you, carries all your taking on,Words from the wise, discourage too many people when things go wrong.Words from the wise, encourage you, carries all your taking on,Words from the wise,...
- It's Only Goodbye
Strange though we made it, in those days that were bareWhat pulled us through them, something was there.I can remember, drifting apart,Thoughtless ways much stronger,As the time grew longerOne for one not always,Then...
- Thank You
THANK YOU, for staying around so long, I know it's been hard.You spend half your life, just testing the ground.THANK YOU, I thought you would come to along, I don't know when,And all of those years, Just foolin'...
- Giant For A Day
You can be President Carter, maybe Idi Amin, or say Muhammed AliMake yourself Marlon Brando, Mickey Mouse, anyone you can see.Listen to all these songs tell yourself that it's wrong to even go your own wayThrow away...
- Little Brown Bag
HOLD ON;To the little brown bag. If it's all (that) she has to show,Torn like a rag, Crazy lady she doesn't know,LOOK IN;Cos there's nothing inside, Was there anything anytimeLittle Brown Bag;She'll be there in the...
- Peel The Pain
Free from the start -Left to depart -Finding the pleasure and the pain in his art.Lost in the hush -No need to rush -Time waits for him, him who creates with thebrush.Colour the brush.High in the air -His dreams are...
- Three Friends
Once three friendsSweet in sadnessNow part of their past.In the endFull of gladnessWent from class to class.
- Mister Class And Quality
Look around my rooms and see the prizes I have showingWorking hard to build my life and plan the way I'm goingHouse and car and pretty wife - they've all been won by knowingAll been won by knowingAll been won by...
- Schooldays
The bell ringsAnd all thingsAre callingThe days pastThe play's castRememberSeptemberWhen we wereTogetherTogetherTogetherSchooldays the happy days when we were going nowhereSchooldays the happy time when we were...
- Prologue
Three friends are made, three lives are laughs and tearsThrough years of school and play they shareAs time stands still the days change into yearsAnd future comes without a care.But fate and skill and chances play...
- Working All Day
Working all day, I'm digging up the roads, just working all dayDig for my pay and spend it where I like. I've nothing to sayDrown in my sweat but money buys escape. I've got no regretsWorking all dayWorking all...
- Alucard
Lying still;Am I dreaming Feel the chillBreath of fearEvil fingers Hover, lingerSomeone help meTerror fills my soul.Living dead;Am I breathingSightless, blindHeart stopped beatingHear the crying Of the dyingSomeone...
- Funny Ways
I'm sorry to have been so much of a boreBut in my own funny way I find I learn much more.I realise what you think from your eyes,But in your own funny way I find I learn much more.My ways are strangeThey'll never...
- Why Not?
Don't sing a tune to yourselfYou might believe this one.Try not to sew it yourselfThe threading won't stretch none.Don't give me none of that line.Why not?Got to sing something.Love's song there's nothing to findWhy...
- Nothing At All
Now she sits by the riversideWatching the waters glide by,With a sighAnd the things she put faith inAre ripples just waving her byWith a sighShe sees lovers pass by with much more than a kissAh this - little girl who...
- Isn't It Quiet And Cold?
Isn't it quiet and cold walking all alone, alone? Happened I missed the bus and found I had to walk, alone. What was that? Only me. Hear the echo of my feet Footsteps Are they mine? Hear the echo of the street....
- Giant
The birth of a realisation;The rise of a high expectation;Emerging successful, defiant;Together the parts make a Giant.See the world in the palm of his hand,Striding steps that will cover the land.He is coming;Hear...
- Way Of Life
You'll find an answer, You've got to believe in your own wayof life.So you'll have to find an answer, You'll have to find a way,Try to find, Try to find.You'll try to question her, Does she believe in the choice...
- The Runaway
He is the runaway, Lie low the wanted manMask his elusive face, Soon he will getaway and free is hisfuture no more aimless time to spendAnd evading, he's escapingFour dirty walls and a bed in a cage his home no...
- In A Glass House
Looking through the window can you tell me what you see.You're sure you're really seeing what is meant to be a Glassa mirror to reflect what I conspire a vision, image I desire.Standing on the ice believing all I'm...
- A Reunion
Meeting in this way who could have knownHow our destinies and ways apart have grown.Looking still the same after all these years changing only in my memories not clearAnd believing all futures we would shareFate...
- Experience
Once I was a boy, an innocent to life and my role in it,This world played my game, and anyone a clown or foil for myself.The harmless affairs, and no-one seemed to care for any meaningMy life was my own, The debt I...
- An Inmates Lullaby
Lying down here in the afternoonIn my pretty cosy little cushioned roomI can talk to all my funny friends in hereI was told to rest why ... I am not quite clearEating flowers growing in the garden where there are...
- Another Show
1. Lock the door and go, heads still in a daze, throw the key away, lost all count of days. Where's the float for the gas? How much left does he have? set the stage and so here's another show ask the...
- Empty City
1. She knows the streets where she walks, never were paved with gold can't return, but won't dream till she's old. leaving it soon behind city so cold.2. And everyday now so long, how could she have been...
- Lost My Head
1. I lost my head, it was not easy, unknown, unread, it wasn't easy, and each day, each night, wasn't wrong, nor right, I can't remember what I said I lost my head.2. What will I feel maybe tomorrow, but...
- Design
(Chant) As years drift by and future dies.1. He sits and he thinks about all he's done in life, I'm now an old man, what have I been in life? what did I do? Had no end to aspire to.2. His dreams as a boy...
- Timing
See now, like cat then mouse, I move,they move, the game hasn't an end.Good news soon, bad news then,I know the sound that says"nothing again".What then? The hours go past,my say is real, they say only...
- Give It Back
1. Isn't it strange, oh it's funny, working for years have no money, suddenly luck can smile on you and your life seems worth while to you. Chorus: Just how much can you spend, give it back in the end,...
- Interview
1. Yes it's been hard, going a long time and we're together even now. Why do you ask? Surely you know it! Isn't it clear just when and how. What can we tell you? At the beginning had no direction, any...
- Aspirations
As the dust settles, see our dreams,all coming trueit depends on you,If our times, they are troubled times,show us the way,tell us what to do.As our faith, maybe aimless blind,hope our ideals andour thoughts are...
- The Face
Sing your song, words that have to continue.Tell a tale, seal the screen that is in you.Make your peace, face to face that is after.Reasons plain, tears of pain are not laughter.Cast off the mould, buy all you've...
- Playing The Game
As I hold the key to the back doorof the world I feel myHand touching bounds never had before.I can view the power of my position and myeyes can see more than anyone in any place,I'll play the game and never ever...
- Valedictory
And though the hard times,are really due to me, it is still in me,to wave all this unrest.Things must stay,there must be no change,anyway, time to rearrange.You must believe, that there'sbeen no betrayal all that I've...
- So Sincere
Hear, he'll do it all for you, you will see it,wise and knowing what to do, what to beand every word is ........Lies, he only tells the truth, for he means it,means, not anything he says, eyes unseen,but everything is...
- No God's A Man
Now the words and claims are seen as alwaysthe way they'll always be, way they'll always be.Truth is halfway true, the man is only a manwho fails to know,the people shouting for him have turned nowtelling him to...
- The Power And The Glory
Run, run, the shotgun has got you in its range.Turn, turn away, when it's time to make a change.Look where you're going. try not to lose your way.What good is knowing you have to go away?Go, you make go, never know,...
- Proclamation
You may not have all you want or you needall that you have has been due to my hand,it can change, it can stay the same,who can say, who can make their claim.2.The situation we are in at this timeneither a good one,...
- Cogs In Cogs
Empty promise broken the path hasnot been paved any way.Cogs in cogs the machineis being left where it lay.Anger and the rising murmur breaksthe old circle, the wheel slowly turns around.All words saying nothingthe...
- Pantagruel's Nativity
How can I laugh or cryWhen my mind is sorely torn?Badabec had to dieFair Pantagruel is bornShall I weep, yes, for why?Then laugh and show my scornBorn with a strength untoldForeseen to have great ageSet in Gargantuan...
- Black Cat
There's a cat prowling through the streets at nightAnd she's black and her eyes are burning yellowfierce and brightThe lights are darkened;Senses sharpened;Wide awakeAs she acts out her past of Jungle daysWhen the...
- Edge Of Twilight
The moon is downCasting its shadow over the night-haunted townMystical figures under the silence of lightThe trembling airDrifts slowly unseen over the houses thereAnd echoes changing into the voices of nightOn the...
- Wreck
The ship's rising up from the sea to the sky heyeheh Hold onJust one sorry scream and a desperate cry heyeheh Hold onTheir lives pass before them before they die heyeheh --The sea yawns around like a boiling hell...
- Plain Truth
Gary: "Tell Frank to order me...uh...two Wimpeys and a portion of chips, will ya? With onions, and tomato sauce on the chips, please." Why do you questionWhen there's no answer told?Plain truth is nothingYou can't buy...
- The Moon Is Down
And the horse riding up through the red skiesThe moon is downWith a gold coloured bird through the cloud fliesThe moon is downLook East to the Sun, Oh where do they runLook East to the Sun, Oh where do they runThey...
- The House, The Street, The Room
The room and street are known only to me and a fewI won't tell nobodyA place to meet where no-one can tell you what to doI won't tell nobodyHere,Awake in sleepTogetherMy time is spent in chains and confusion in my...
- Y Despegar
Cargando tanta prisarechazo los coloresque aplazan mi mociónAcorto mis opciónes y olvido mi pudortomé mi decisiónEste momento sólo queda continuarun sentimiento que me hace estallarY...
- Quimicamente Mejorado
En su mirar completamente asintomáticoSu caminar como en piloto automáticoEl tiene más, el quiere más, el busca más, un poco más.El tiene más, el quiere más, y...
- A Cry For Everyone
Run, why should I run awayWhen at the end the only truth certain -One day everyone dies -If only to justify life.Live, I've lived a thousand lives;And anyone is the right, the just life.If I could cry, I'd cry for...
- Falacia
Mentiras tus palabrasmentira tu mirarmentira tus gemidosNo vale insistir, se plasma en tu respirarmaquillar la verdad, no tienes más que disfrazarmentiras tus suspirosmentira tu llorarmentira son tus...
- Popular
Tu conformidadsólo te da y te da lo mismosin cesar hasta que tú te vasy tu alma tan vacÃÂÂasiempre dejar y olvidar atrás sin pensarAbsorbiendo toda inspiracióny el mundo sin color...
- Tu Marca
Entonces te da igualparar o continuarsólo das un paso más inciertoY siguiendo sin un planvaya seguridad la que me das!se nos agota el tiempoHay que saber muy bienson cosas que no debes prometerigual te...
- Mi Maldad
Es tan naturalsuele olvidarsecomo respirar, caminar o soñarNo es insanidadinevitablees un palpitar inmoral y está dentro de mÃÂÂTantos males que yo he de evitares cierto supera mi voluntadhay una...
- Hacia El Final Del Arcoiris
Cargo: maleta artificialllena de falso bienestareso es lo que importa en mi rutacargo: un tanque muy llenode mil ganas de salir de aquÃÂÂy yo siento que es mi turnoEs mi oportunidadvivo para llegarhasta el final...
- The Advent Of Panurge
There coming over Charaton BridgeLook do you see the man who is poor but rich.What do you wish; and where do you go;Who are you; where are you from:will you tell me your name?Rest awhile; call me your friend.Please...
- Seleccione F O V
Tener la raz�³nEquivocaci�³nque contradicci�³nS�³lo una idea en tu interiorTodos tenermos justificaci�³nde validar la mentira de la verdadme sentir y tu parecerun...
- Think Of Me With Kindness
Why am I using words, no more to say without youClose the door, put out the lights and go.Late in the night, in the night your shadow falls between us.Nevermore, never know.There, memories are sorrow,When there's no...
- Knots
All in all each man in all menAll men in each man.He can see she can't, she can see she cansee whatever, whatever.You may know what I don't know, but not thatI don't know it and I can't tell youso you will.To tell me...
- Dog's Life
Shuffling down the street with his sideways feet,Stopping now and then and he'll stop again,No doubt in his mind where he's going.He doesn't care for his hair or his teethAnd if the truth were known he's a bit of a...
- River
Touching the last of what is pastMoving silent water fell the first that comes.Slow and winding, flowing freePeaceful music in its sound of distant drums.Trust the shallow virgin streamDanger wild, beware the deeper...
- Raconteur, Troubadour
Gather round the village squareCome good people both wretched and fair.See the troubadour play on the drumHear my songs on the lute that I strum.I will make you laugh,Revel, Merry-dance.Throw your pennies, then you'll...
- His Last Voyage
Rose in early morning, as the light came through,Searching in the ocean, did what he should do,Seeking not adventure, just a way of life,Sky above turned grey, wind cut like a knife.This was his last voyage, this was...
- Free Hand
Who would believe me now that my hands are free, that my hands are free.I never thought it would ever come to me, ever come to me.Now that my life's my own, I leave you behind, leaving you behind.What ever made you...
- Just The Same
See me, what I am, what I was, what I'll be,Hear me, understand that I'm not what you seeTake this, take the man, middle term, common meDon't you see that I'm just doing what I want to doNothing more and nothing less...
- On Reflection
In my way did I use you, do you think I really abused youOn reflection now it doesn't matter:How can you say I made you need me more than anyone elseWho can say it right now it's finished over:It's my act, it's my...
- Mobile
Up, up, time to fly.Moving all around, going everywhere from town to town,All looking the same, changing only in name,Days turn into nights, time is nothing only if it's right,From where you came don't you think it's...
- Time To Kill
Rests where he's staying, nowhere he knows,A place where nobody cares where he's straying or where he goes.To find no-one in particular, footloose, adventure still,No thoughts for reasons, he does all he's doingHas...
- Mountain Time
Mountain time, mountain date. Hope to be there, before it's lateI need to see you, looking fine. Gotta be there, mountain timeLast night I had to tell you, made up my mind I need to see youGot on the road to rideI...
- As Old As You're Young
Look at the mirror over there, what do you see? Tell yourself a lieAre you as old as you seem? Feel something that you have toBeing open, an innocent, wise only when. Age can mellow the hasteNew hopes, ambitions...
- Winning
Once he could smile maybe happyFighting for his future and his destinationsThere were his friends he'd rely onEveryone had nothing but their aspirationsSoon dreaming found realizationWinning was his target with...
- I'm Turning Around
Where's the love that you once promised. Where's the pride, was it all lies? Taking all, but giving nothing. Did you want a compromise?All these years we spent together. It was me who sold my timeNow I've made my...
- For Nobody
Running away, I'll leave you my address, don't want you to reply to anybodyForward my mail to the next place. I'll be responsible for nobodyGiven my best to the people I knew. I'll always maintain my situationAnd...
- Betcha Thought - We Couldn't Do It
Yeah, now I'm back here in Hollywood, I pick up the phone, turn the pagesHi, got a friend and he said I should not be on my own, Come on over, take you to our show. What are you doing?Who do you think you are? You're...
- Memories Of Old Days
Now the wings fell to ground as the miles they were crossedAll the years seemed like days as the time it was lostFor without his solutions and reasons for whyHe should come up for air to the town once his bySo soon on...
- Two Weeks In Spain
Two weeks in Spain makes the year disappear easyTwo weeks in Spain, you forget, bored and yet wearyWe're back again, drink the wine, weather's fine, onlyTwo weeks in Spain's not enoughNever think where you're...
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