Neverland

The twelve-minute close of Marbles, steeped in Peter Pan, which Prog readers voted the greatest Marillion song.
Marillion, from Marbles (2004)

Written by
Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, Ian Mosley
Released
2004
Length
12:10
Album
Marbles

Play on hypersongs

Written by all five members with words by Hogarth, it closes both editions of Marbles. It was recorded at the Racket Club with Dave Meegan. The lyric is threaded with J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, from Wendy Darling to Captain Hook and the ticking crocodile, and the words you're gone land at a key moment. It was never a single, but it topped a poll of more than 8,000 Prog readers on the 50 greatest Marillion songs.

The band first played it at the Marillion Weekend at Minehead in March 2003, more than a year before the album came out, and setlist.fm logs 406 performances since. It was filmed or recorded at the Astoria in London in 2004, at Port Zelande in 2015 and at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 with the string quartet In Praise of Folly. The upload in the hypersongs web is a live performance from the Sunday night of the Marillion Weekend at Center Parcs, Port Zelande, in March 2009, where it closed the set, issued on the Out of Season DVD set.

More songs by Marillion

Kayleigh, Forgotten Sons, Easter

Sources

  1. Marbles (album), Wikipedia
  2. The greatest ever Marillion song revealed, Louder
  3. Neverland: song statistics, setlist.fm
  4. Out of Season, Prog Archives
  5. Size Matters, marillion.com