Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Keith Emerson – Harrison & Harrison pipe organ
Carl Palmer – drums and percussion
Greg Lake – lead vocals and acoustic guitar
Promenade is based on the original composition by Modest Mussorgsky. Adapted and arranged by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
The Sage on the other hand is an original composition written solely by Greg Lake, performed as an intimate acoustic piece within the suite.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Promenade – The Sage Lyrics
Promenade Lyrics
Lead me from tortured dreams
Childhood themes of nights alone
Wipe away endless years
Childhood tears as dry as stone
From seeds of confusion
Illusions dark blossoms have grown
Even now in furrows of sorrow
The doubt still is sown
My life’s course is guided
Decided by limits drawn
On charts of my past ways
And pathways since I was born
The Sage Lyrics
I carry the dust of a journey
That cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
For I breathe it every day
You and I are yesterdays answers
The earth of the past come to flesh
Eroded by times rivers
To the shapes we now possess.
Come share of my breath and my substance
And mingle our streams and our times
In bright infinite moments
Our reasons are lost in our rhymes.
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