Songs about passing of time, passing away

[Wojtek]

One of the most fascinating cultural differences I know is the one connected with celebrating Halloween/All Saints Day. Here in Poland on that days we are visiting realtives', friends' tombs, lighting candles. Cementaries are very beautiful then (flowers, sparkling lights at evening and in the night). So it's just the opposite to the Halloween atmosphere.

I need your help. I may have occassion to dj an event connected with songs about passing of time, passing by, death, loneliness after losing dearest person, songs with atmosphere of reflection, meditation, songs in pensive mood. If you know prog songs meeting such criteria please help me.

I've already found a few (eg. Mostly Autumn's, Pain of Salvation's, Opeth's) but knowing mainly modern prog I don't want to miss old great prog songs.
And of course I don't know whole modern scene so if you know any prog tracks connected with topics mentioned above I'll be grateful for that.
Thanks in advance. :p

[Rick and Roll]

"Never the Same" by Echolyn, last cut on "As The World". One of the most beautiful tunes I've ever heard, from a personal favorite record. "Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there, I did not die. I say to you, I will see you again on the other side, someday."

"Canto IV" by Discipline, possibly.

"Lamplight Symphony" by Kansas is a very good one.

Of course there's always D.O.A. by Bloodrock :eek:

I'm sure there's a ton more.

"We're only immortal.....for a limited time."

Hope that helps.

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
"We're only immortal.....for a limited time."
Ok it's bugging me - where's that quote from?


*probably too obvious, but "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd.
*if you're looking for some instrumentals, a lot of Pink Floyd could work, such as "Marooned" and "Cluster One."
*Yes - "Onward"
*not prog, but "A Million Parachutes" by Sixpence None the Richer
*Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches"
*Counting Crows - "Raining in Baltimore" and "Sullivan Street"

*"Wreck of the Edmuch Fitzgerald" anyone? :eek:

[podakayne]

Porcupine Tree - Heartattack in a Lay by

APProject - Time

not all happy-happy but mellodic...i'll think of more later

i like al stewarts - Time Passages (not prog but i like it)


if ever anyone finds it... Randy Pie's - Time Machine (it's proggy)

lots of Tangerine Dream is pensive as are....Klaus Schultz...The Enid
Eno ambient sounds

caught me when i'm leaving...it's a start
:D

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by podakayne

i like al stewarts - Time Passages (not prog but i like it)


if ever anyone finds it... Randy Pie's - Time Machine (it's proggy)

:D

Randy Pie! I love it when you say that!

Al Stewart...love that tune.

Spaz that's a quote from Rush's "Dreamline":cool:

[podakayne]

Last man on Earth - Aeyron

I am a Dinosaur - King Crimson

Yes - Turn of the Century :heart:


and for rick...
:knowing: randy pie, randy pie, randy pie's...Highway Driver (traveling song)

and :ditto: what you said about that al song :D

more when i think about it
poda
p.s. the extended smilies are a hoot:D

[fremder99]

Kate Bush's "Moments of Pleasure" leaps to mind...

But my mind is leaping into bed, so I'll have to post again tomorrow

[VAXman]

Originally posted by Wojtek
One of the most fascinating cultural differences I know is the one connected with celebrating Halloween/All Saints Day. Here in Poland on that days we are visiting realtives', friends' tombs, lighting candles. Cementaries are very beautiful then (flowers, sparkling lights at evening and in the night). So it's just the opposite to the Halloween atmosphere.

I need your help. I may have occassion to dj an event connected with songs about passing of time, passing by, death, loneliness after losing dearest person, songs with atmosphere of reflection, meditation, songs in pensive mood. If you know prog songs meeting such criteria please help me.

I've already found a few (eg. Mostly Autumn's, Pain of Salvation's, Opeth's) but knowing mainly modern prog I don't want to miss old great prog songs.
And of course I don't know whole modern scene so if you know any prog tracks connected with topics mentioned above I'll be grateful for that.
Thanks in advance. :p
Marillion's Estonia from This Strange Engine... and there's a really nice acoustic version on the remaster of Radiat10n.


Feeling you shake
Feel your heart break
Thinking if only, if only, if only, if only
And the salt water runs
Through your veins and your bones
Telling you no not this way, not this way, not this way

And you would give anything
Give up everything
Offer your life blood away
For yesterday

No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When we're gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
We'll stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today

Finding the answer
It's a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
'Cause nobody knows
And so few can see
There's only beauty and carin g and truth beyond darkness

No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When we're gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
We'll stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today

And we won't understand your grief
Because time is illusion
As this watery world spins around
This timeless sun
Will dry your eyes
And calm your mind

No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When we're gone
Watch the world simply carry on
It's okay, we will stay and be happy
Stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today

[Yesspaz]

It's folk, but it's great. Jan asks questions about why a young girl has to die. The main literary theme comes from Isaiah 42:3, "A bent reed he will not break, and the smouldering flax he will not snuff out."


"Bent and Broken Reeds"


Pebbled clouds
Broken sky
Beauty can't nullify
all this grief and its strong undertow

No goodbye
No fair chance
To settle her world
she was too young to think she would go

No one ever does prepare for this
No Last Supper, no betrayal kiss
Broken hearts, bent and broken reeds
Where is the Mercy?

Neighbors talk
Neighbors look
They take pulses and cook and they grieve and they hold on to life
Share the pain
share the food
A sweet laugh or two
All the stories and the sacred advice
God, what good can ever come from this
bending, aching, stunning kind of shift?

Broken hearts, bent and broken reeds
Asking for Mercy

Watch denial
muscle through
What did I say to you?
Oh, yes, nothing hangs heavy as grief
in the lungs in the soul
Though you try to console
You don't know but just try to believe
And make the few odd choices that death leaves
All we have to hold is love's bright seed

Broken hearts, bent and broken reeds
Begging for Mercy



Here's a clip: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005OC66/qid=1126267515/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5969220-7862406?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

[podakayne]

and still going on the theme:

Alan Parsons Project, The - Some Other Time
Yes - Time and a Word
IQ - Somewhere In Time

Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Enid, The - Death, The Reaper
Enid, The - Love Death...The Immolation of Fand
Tangerine Dream - Fallen For Death

you can always do a playlist search and come up with lots of choices.

this is an interesting thread.

[sharcnorris]

DUST IN THE WIND--KANSAS

[podakayne]

The Wall

[KeithieW]

Regular Moonies will know that I have it written in my will that they will play Awaken at my Funeral (along with Blind Faith's "Tired and Wasted and can't find my way home" - but that's another story. :) )

However, BJH's "Taking me Higher" is a good one to consider.

[Wojtek]

Thank you!
So many suggestions, with them I'll have great playlist :). Of course it's not closed yet so I am still open for songs.

I don't know most of them so I am requesting and listening. So far requested and listened to Rick's Echolyn and Kansas. Great tunes, surely will be included.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by podakayne
The Wall

Yes....

[sharcnorris]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Yes.... Maybe

[Yesspaz]

Pretty much anything from Sigur Ros' third album, ( )

Journey - Snow Theme

[progdirjim]

Lou Reed - Magic And Loss - anything from the album (it's about losing two friends to cancer within a one year period)
Cure - Just Like Heaven from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Genesis - Afterglow (I always thought the song was about searching for a lost loved one in a nuclear winter)

[Steady Stan]

Maybe it's obvious, but "Funeral for a Friend" By Elton John

"Afterimage" by Rush is powerful

"Old & Wise" is another tearjerker from The Alan Parsons Project

"Father OSA" by Styx is a sleeper that may fit the bill

"Long Goodbyes" from Camel, while a tad sappy, could be appropriate.

Like Keithie, my dear friend, I demand "Awaken" to be played at my life celebration.

[podakayne]

stated beautifully by Steady Stan
Like Keithie, my dear friend, I demand "Awaken" to be played at my life celebration.

what a wonderful point of view that is stan..."my life celebration" i like it.

podakayne