man of a thousand faces

• this strange engine albümünde yer alan harika marillion parçası...
  
  lyrics: helmer
  music: hogarth/kelly/mosley/rothery/trewavas
  
  i'm the man of a thousand faces
  a little piece of me in every part i take
  i hold the tape for a thousand races
  a different point of view in every speech i make
  cut me a piece of my divided soul
  cry me a river, call it rock and roll
  give me an attitude and watch me make it lie
  pass me a microphone
  i need to testify
  well i speak to machines with the voice of humanity
  speak to the wise with the voice of insanity
  speak to the present in the past and future tense
  speak to a slave with the voice of obedience
  
  i'm the man of a thousand ages
  you see my face in the stones of the parthenon
  you hear my song in the babble of babylon
  i'm the man of a thousand riches
  be my guest at the feast of satyricon
  you spend the money that my logo's printed on
  
  well i'll speak to machines with the voice of humanity
  speak to the wise with the voice of insanity
  speak to the present in the past and future tense
  speak to a slave with the voice of obedience
  
  i stole a fire but it burned up much too soon
  i took a leap and i landed on the moon
  look at my life and it looks like cnn
  you see something once
  you know it's gonna come around again
  
  well i'll speak to machines with the voice of humanity
  speak to the wise with the voice of insanity
  speak to a woman with the fatal charm of a snake
  forgive like a giver and account for all i take
  yes, i speak to machines with the voice of humanity
  speak to the wise with the voice of insanity
  speak like a leader with the voice of power and command
  and when i talk to god i know he'll understand
  
  cause i'm the man of a thousand faces
  yes i'm the man of a thousand faces
  
  i stole a fire but it burned up too much too soon
  i took a leap and i landed on the moon
  
  voice of command
  voice of a snake
  voice of humanity
  voice of insanity
  voice of obedience
  thousand faces
  thousand races
  cry me a river
  steal a fire
  face in the stars
  stones in the parthenon
  babble of babylon
  landed on the moon
• albümden çıkan ilk single'dır;
  
  01 - man of a thousand faces (radio edit)
  02 - man of a thousand faces (extended)
  03 - beautiful (acoustic)
  04 - made again (acoustic)
• ortasındaki klavye solosu ve sonundaki cocuk korosuyla cok takdirimi kazanmıs bi marillion sarkısıdır.dinlerken bi huzur hatta husu yaratır.halbuki sozlerde dunyayı kurtaran adam gizlidir^*.
• regina spektor'un 2009 yılında çıkarmış olduğu far albümündeki leziz şarkıdır. "good is better than perfect" diyerek azla yetinme paktını imzalamıştır.
  
  the man of a thousand faces
  sits down at the table
  eats a small lump of sugar
  and smiles at the moon like he knows her
  and begins his quiet ascension
  without anyone's sturdy instruction
  to a place of no religion
  has found a path to our alikeness
  
  his words are quiet like stains are
  on a table cloth washed in a river
  stains that are trying to cover, for each other
  or at least blend in with the pattern
  good is better than perfect
  scrub til your fingers are bleeding
  and i'm crying for things that i tell others to do without crying
  
  he used to go to his favorite bookstores
  and rip out his favorite pages
  and stuff them into his breast pocket
  and the moon to him was a stranger
  now he sits down at the table
  right next to the window
  and begins his quiet ascension
  without anyone's sturdy instruction
  to a place of no religion
  has found a path to our alikeness
  and eats a small lump of sugar
  and smiles at the moon like he knows her
• 1957 yapımı film.
  james cagneyin oynadığı film ünlü oyuncu lon chaneyin hayatını anlatır.
  aynı zamanda chaney'in lakabıdır.