tarkus

• bir emerson lake palmer albümü
• emerson lake palmer'in bir albumu, albumun ilk yuzunu tamamiyla kaplayan parcanin adi, ve parcaya konu olan yari armadillo, yari tank yaratigin adi. hikayede tarkus bir yanardag patlamasiyla olusur, degisik yari mekanik yari organik yaratiklarla docusur, hepsini yener, fakat son dusmani olan manticore tarafindan yenilir
• (bkz: tarsus)
• (bkz: taurus)
• basarili ve uzunluguna ragmen baymayan bir emerson lake palmer parcasidir.20 dakika 42 saniye sürer.the stones of years,mass ve the battlefield adinda üc bölümden olusur.gene bu uzunluga erisen hatta bu uzunlugu gecen daha güzel parcalar da bulunur o ayri.
  
  (bkz: echoes)
  (bkz: black rose immortal)
• sözlerini de yazayim tam olsun...
  
  i. the stones of years
  
  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 waters 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.
  
  ii. mass
  
  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!
  
  iii. the battlefield
  
  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 blades of brass and arrows reign
  then there will be very little sorrow,
  very little pain.
• tarkus albümünün 5.şarkısı hymn (the only way)'de sorgulayıcı ve cüretli dizelere rastlanır:
  
  "how was the earth conceived? infinite space.
  is there such a place? you must believe in the human race.
  can you believe, god makes you breathe?
  why did he lose six million jews?"
• 1971 tarihli emerson lake and palmer albumu.
  
  icerigi ;
  
  1. eruption (2:44)
  2. stones of years (3:44)
  3. iconoclast (1:16)
  4. mass (3:12)
  5. manticore (1:52)
  6. battlefield (3:51)
  7. aquatarkus (4:04)
  8. jeremy bender (1:51)
  9. bitches crystal (3:58)
  10. the only way (hymn)(3:49)
  toccata in f and prelude vi (themes used in intro and bridge only)composed by: bach
  11. infinite space (conclusion)(3:20)
  12. a time and a place (3:02)
  13. are you ready eddy? (2:10)
• albümle adlı epik şarkı yüzünden büyük ihtimalle albümün geri kalanına genelde pek önem verilmez. ama diğer şarkılar da ayrı ayrı şahanedir. hele ki bu albümde bitches crystal diye bir şarkı vardır ki; şarkı değil, kısa süreli bir progressive rock şarkısının nasıl olması gerektiğini gösteren bir derstir adeta.
• estonca (bkz: hikmet)