ELOY (70s Decade)

Another return to time for some forgotten by us songs by the german progressive band Eloy: Three songs from their early years when they dealed with socio-political issues in their songs

Something Yellow, Album: "Eloy" (1971)

Some day when wake up in the morning
you'll never forget that day
you feel that there is something in the air you've never seen before
something tough, something yellow
and your lungs begin to melt
during chimneys smoking everywhere
you hear the voice of your president
we must do something against the smog.

A song about air pollution


Future City, Album: "Inside" (1973)

time's gone on
as you think about
cities are growing on
until they're crushing you
guess how you feel
once more it's catching your breathing
guess how you feel
guess how you feel
the day is dark
when you wake up in the morning
the streets are bare
when death is going round and around
time's gone on
as you think about
cities are growing on
until they're crushing you
guess how you feel
once more it's catching your breathing
guess how you feel
guess how you feel

A song about the isolation and depression urban environment creates


Plastic Girl, Album: "Floating" (1974)

She lives in a plastic, plastic world
She talks in plastic, plastic words
I must have been wrong
When I thought she was different
Because her lips and her eyes
Seemed like a sea of delight
She whispered in my ear
Words of boundless feelings
I was bewitched and I knew
We could spend the night together
But we'll never get the truth
of our dreams and wishes

She must know that I have to go on my way
She must learn that she has to turn or to go away

'Cause there's no place for me in a plastic world
I'll never talk to friends again in plastic words
Why people don't understand the emptiness
They'll never learn it with their plastic brains

We never had the chance to live with each other
But I will remember the irresistable moments
The synthetic world destroyed all my feelings
She's a girl full of plastic, she's a plastic girl

A song about alienation and commercialization of human relations in industrialized consuming societies


You can hear many Eloy classics in youtube:

Walk alone

inside

castle in the air

bells of notre dame

midnight fight/victory of mental force

Decay of Logos