Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could Read My Mind":
"If you could read my mind love,
what a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old time movie
about a ghost from a wishing well.
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
with chains upon my feet.
You know that ghost is me
and I will never be set free
as long as I'm a ghost that you can see.
If I could read your mind love,
what a tale your thoughts could tell.
Just like a paperback novel,
the kind the drugstore sells.
When you reach the part where the heartaches
come the hero would be me.
Heroes often fail.
And you won't read that book again
because the endings just to hard to take."
Fish "A Gentleman's Excuse Me":
"...Do you still believe in fairy tales
In battlements of shining castles
Safe from the dragons
That lie beneath the hill
Are you still a Russian princess
Rescued by a gipsy-dancer
To anyone who'll listen
Is that a story you still tell..."
David Bowie "Glass Spider":
"Up until one century ago there lived,
in the Zi Duang provence of eastern country.
A glass-like spider.
Having devoured its prey it would drape the skeletons over its web in weeks creating a macabre shrine of remains.
Its web was also unique in that it had many layers, like floors in a buuilding.
At the top of this palace-like place, assembled with almost apparent care, were tiny shining objects, glass, beads, dew-drops.
One could almost call it an altar.
When the breeze blew thru this construction,
it produced sounds of wailing, crying..."
Ja, det var några halvfantasy-aktiga texter. Annars tycker jag Dungens texter är lite fantasy, eller kanske mer naturromantiska, fast det är samma sak för mig. Texten till Ted Gärdestads "Sommarlängtan" är också ganska härlig. Lite inaktuell nu, dock.