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(Lake)
Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea,
Then watch the ripples that unfold into me,
My face spill so gently into your eyes,
Disturbing the waters of our lives.

Shread of our memories are lying on your grass;
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past.
Photographs are grey and torn, scattered in your fields
Letters of your mem'ries are not real.

Sadness on your shoulders like a wornout overcoat
In pockets creased and tattered hang the rags of your hope.
The daybreak is your midnight; the colours have all died.
Disturbing the waters of our lives, of our lives, of our lives, lives,
lives, lives...
Of our lives.
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song list next song previous song ELP: Works Live ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: Atlantic Years ELP: Works, Volume 1 ELP: Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tank
(Emerson, Palmer)
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(Emerson)
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(Emerson, Lake)
Has the dawn ever seen your eyes?
Have the days made you so unwise?
Realize, you are.

Had you talked to the winds of time,
Then you'd know how the water rhyme,
Taste of wine,

How can you know where you've been?
In time you'll see the sign
And realize your sin.

Will you know how the seed is sown?
All your time has been overgrown,
Never known.

Have you walked on the stones of years?
When you speak, is it you that hears?
Are your ears full?

You can't hear anything at all.
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(Emerson)
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(Emerson, Lake)
The preacher said a prayer.
Save ev'ry single hair on his head.
He's dead.

The minister of hate had just arrived to be spared.
Who cared?
The weaver in the web that he made!

The pilgrim wandered in,
Commiting ev'ry sin that he could
So good...

The cardinal of grief was set in his belief he'd saved
From the grave
The weaver in the web that he made!

The high priest took a blade
To bless the ones that prayed,
And all obeyed.

The messenger of fear is slowly growing, nearer to the time,
A sign.
The weaver in the web that he made!

A bishops rings a bell,
A cloak of darkness fell across the ground
Without a sound!

The silent choir sing and in their silence,
Bring jaded sound, harmonic ground.
The weaver in the web that he made!
song list next song previous song ELP: Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: Atlantic Years ELP: Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends ELP: Tarkus Tarkus: Manticore
(Emerson)
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ELP: Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: Atlantic Years ELP: Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends ELP: Tarkus song list next song previous song ELP: Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: Atlantic Years ELP: Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends ELP: Tarkus Tarkus: Battlefield
(Lake)
Clear the battlefield and let me see
All the profit from our victory.
You talk of freedom, starving children poor.
Are you deaf when you hear the season's call?

Were you there to watch the earth be scorched?
Did you stand beside the spectral torch?
Know the leaves of sorrow turned their face,
Scattered on the ashes of disgrace.

Ev'ry blade is sharp; the arrows fly
Where the victims of your armies lie,
Where the bladed of brass and arrows rein
Then there will be very little sorrow,
Very little pain.
song list next song previous song ELP: Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: Atlantic Years ELP: Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends ELP: Tarkus Tarkus: Aquatarkus
(Emerson)
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(Lake/Sinfield)
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song list next song previous song ELP: Emerson, Lake & Palmer The Three Fates
  • Clotho
  • Lachesis
  • Atropos
    (Emerson)
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    (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Sinfield)
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    song list next song previous song ELP: Then And Now ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: Tarkus A Time And A Place
    (Emerson, Lake, Palmer)
    There is a place, a time and a space
    Just no one can trace, that non one can trace.
    
    Somewhere a hill, where things are still
    rain water spill, just rain water spill.
    
    Sleep in a dream of butter milk cream
    You dance on a beam, dancing on a beam.
    
    Save me from this shallow land, take me out of temper's hand
    Drag me from the burning sand, show me those that understand.
    
    Save me from this shallow land, take me out of temper's hand
    Drag me from the burning sand, show me those that understand.
    
    Rest in shade, no sound his made,
    Where silence is played, sound of silence played.
    
    song list next song previous song ELP: Then And Now ELP: Classic Rock ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: Atlantic Years ELP: Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends ELP: Brain Salad Surgery Toccata (An Adaptation of Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto, 4th Movement)
    (Arr. - Emerson, Percussion movement - Palmer)
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    (Emerson, Gould, Lake)
    Man in the street nowhere to sleep
    No time for nothing no Patek Phillipe
    Pedal to the metal Blow by Blow
    You're runnin' with the devil it's touch and go
    They're leaving you nothing and nowhere to go
    Just put you in the corner like an old banjo
    The strings are breakin' but you can't say no
    You're runnin' with the devil it's touch and go
    Systematic one man show
    You're caught up in the middle where the four winds blow
    No salvation 20 below
    You're runnin' with the devil it's touch and go
    All systems go friend or foe
    It's all dependin' on the dice you throw
    Come without a warning like a U.F.O.
    You're runnin' with the devil it's touch and go
    You see this woman on a T.V. show
    She's drippin' in diamonds from head to toe
    They make you believe it's the status quo
    You're runnin' with the devil it's touch and go
    All systems go friend or foe
    It's all dependin' on the dice you throw
    Come without a warning like a U.F.O.
    You're runnin' with the devil it's touch and go
    
    song list next song previous song ELP: Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ELP: Return Of The Manticore ELP: The Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ELP: Trilogy Trilogy
    (Emerson, Lake)
    I've tried to mend
    The love that ended
    Long ago although we still pretend
    Our love is surely coming to an end
    Don't waste the time you've got to love again
    
    We tried to lie
    But you and I
    Know better than to let each other lie
    The thought of lying to you makes me cry
    Counting up the time that's passed us by
    
    I've sent this letter hoping it will reach your hand
    And if it does I hope that you will understand
    
    That I must leave in a while
    And though I smile
    You know the smile is only there to hide
    What I'm really feeling deep inside
    Just a face where I can hang my pride
    
    Goodbye...
    Goodbye...
    
    We'll talk of places that we went
    And times that we have spent
    Together penniless and free
    
    You'll see the day another way
    And they could put the sunshine
    for a nighttime where you lay
    
    You're love began I don't know when
    But if you do I know that
    you'll be happy in the end
    
    song list ELP: Letter U previous song ELP: Works, Volume 1 Two Part Invention In D Minor
    (Bach; arr. Palmer)
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