Background information
Origin : Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Genres : Progressive rock, neo-progressive rock, alternative rock, art rock, acoustic rock
Years active : 1979--present
Labels : EMI, Capitol, Castle, Racket Records (Intact), IRS, Caroline, Sanctuary, Velvel/Koch, Edel, Liberty, Pony Canyon
Associated : acts
Iris
Website www.marillion.com
Members :
Steve Rothery
Mark Kelly
Pete Trewavas
Ian Mosley
Steve 'h' Hogarth
Past members :
Mick Pointer
Brian Jelliman
Doug Irvine
Fish
Diz Minnett
Andy Ward
John 'Martyr' Marter
Jonathan Mover
Lyrics :
Fugazi - Marillion
Vodka intimate, an affair
With isolation in a Blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the real
Tears from the real.
Drowning in the liquid seize
on the Piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth
(Caress Ophelias hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition)
Sheathed within the walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation
(She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck)
From the Time-Life-Guardians
In their conscience bubbles
Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Nine to five with suitable ties
Cast adrift as their sideshow,
peepshow, stereo hero
Becalm bestill, bewitch
Drowning in the real.
The thief of Baghdad hides in Islingtown now
Praying deportation for his sacred cow
A legacy of romance from a twilight world
The dowry of a relative mystery girl
A Vietnamese flower, a dockland union
A mistress of release from a magazine's thighs
Magdalenes contracts more than favours
The feeding hands of western
Promise hold her by the throat.
A son of a swastika of '45
Parading a peroxide standard
Graffiti disciples conjure testaments of hatred
Aerosol wands whisper where the searchlights
Trim the barbed wire hedges
This is Brixton chess
A knight of Embankment
Folds his newspaper castle
A creature of habit,
Begs the boatman's coin
He'll fade with old soldiers
In the grease stained roll call
And linger with the heartburn
Of Good Friday's last supper.
Son watches father scan obituary columns
In search of absent school friends
While his generation digests
High fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains
And the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide,
Provided door to door Belsens
Pandora's box of holocausts
Gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens
Waiting, wai-wai-waiting,
The season of the button
The penultimate migration
Radioactive perfumes
For the fashionably
For the terminally insane, insane
D-d-do you realise?
D-d-do you realise?
D-d-do you realise,
This world is totally fugazi.
Where are the prophets
Where are the visionaries
Where are the poets
To breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary.