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condor 
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Posted: November 03 2006 at 09:54 |
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Does anyone know how Solsbury Hill is about Gabriel leaving Genesis? Why exactly did he leave?
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Posted: November 03 2006 at 16:04 |
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http://home.att.net/~los.endos/genesis/faq/faq.htm#sectionone
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Atavachron
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Posted: November 03 2006 at 22:29 |
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Is that what Gabriel says or some conjecture brought on by speculation caused by innuendo?
I always felt 'Big Time' is about Phil Collins...but I guess that's obvious.
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Posted: November 03 2006 at 22:30 |
It's about an autistic kid, it's part of the Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence suite, one of the mellower parts, with Ruddess' soaring keyboard line.....erm.....uh......oh wait, wrong song 
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Posted: November 03 2006 at 22:32 |
Isn't this obvious?
To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
"Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."
Iván
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Posted: November 03 2006 at 22:41 |
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Perfect song.
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Atavachron
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Posted: November 03 2006 at 23:43 |
 Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
Isn't this obvious?
<FONT face=Verdana size=2>To keep in silence I resignedMy friends would think I was a nutTurning water into wineOpen doors would soon be shutSo I went from day to dayTho' my life was in a rut"Till I thought of what I'd sayWhich connection I should cutI was feeling part of the sceneryI walked right out of the machineryMy heart going boom boom boom"Hey" he said "Grab your thingsI've come to take you home."
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<FONT face=Verdana size=2>Iván |
It's 'obvious' in the sense that it's about a new event in someone's life, but did Gabriel ever *say* it is specifically about leaving G? Otherwise it's strictly a matter of interpretation which is always a tenuous undertaking.
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Posted: November 04 2006 at 00:22 |
Peter never explains his klyrics (People is stuill asking what the hell The Lamb means), but the situation was not comfortable since the recording of the Lamb, there's a parragraph from Back in N.Y.C that seems to leave clear Peter was not comfortable with the path Genesis members wanted to take
You're sitting in your comfort you don't believe I'm real,
You cannot buy protection from the way that I feel.
Your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash,
But it was mine in the first place, so I'll burn it to ash.
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If you follow the sequence and Genesis history (Peter was receiving pressure to forget the customs and his stage show -reference to not being real-).
I believe he was not allowed to leave Genesis for a while to make a project with Friedkin and he was not pleased with that either.
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - November 04 2006 at 00:25
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Posted: November 04 2006 at 00:24 |
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I just think that it weird that Cingular Wireless uses it for
its ads.
Edited by king of Siam - November 04 2006 at 00:25
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The Whistler
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Posted: November 04 2006 at 00:25 |
IT'S MOTHS!!! IT'S MOTHS!!!
(should be read ala "it's a cookbook)
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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Posted: November 04 2006 at 01:10 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
Peter never explains his klyrics (People is stuill asking what the hell The Lamb means), but the situation was not comfortable since the recording of the Lamb, there's a parragraph from Back in N.Y.C that seems to leave clear Peter was not comfortable with the path Genesis members wanted to take
| You're sitting in your comfort you don't believe I'm real,You cannot buy protection from the way that I feel.Your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash,But it was mine in the first place, so I'll burn it to ash. |
If you follow the sequence and Genesis history (Peter was receiving pressure to forget the customs and his stage show -reference to not being real-).
I believe he was not allowed to leave Genesis for a while to make a project with Friedkin and he was not pleased with that either.
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Sure, a have little doubt the whole thing was a mess for all, and I see how those lyrics from Lamb could be seen that way. But like John Lennon's 'How Do You Sleep', we can think it's about Paul or we can see it as about anyone you or he wants. Untill the writer says it is about a particular thing, you never know. Besides, one of the reasons Peter's lyrics were so good was becase of that abstract, multiple-meaning style you describe-- so maybe we're not suppose to interpret at all.
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Posted: November 05 2006 at 08:06 |
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"How do you sleep?" was very obviously about Paul, wasn't it? "Those freaks was right when they said you was dead" does clearly point to the rumours that came up after the release of "Abbey Road" with Paul walking barefoot (said to be a sign of mourning in Sicily) and the car with the "28 IF"-numberplate, saying - for those freaks - that Paul didn't reach that age.
Then there's "The only thing you done was yesterday, and since you're gone you're just another day" indicating that "Yesterday" was the only important contribution from Paul to the Beatles, with "Another Day" being Paul's first single after he left the Fab Four.
I find Iváns interpretation of the "Solsbury Hill"-lyrics very convincing.
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"We've got to get in to get out"
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 19:50 |
View from Solsbury Hill, looking over the Swainswick Valley, with a view of Bath in the background :)
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