What is your favorite genesis song lyrics
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Topic: What is your favorite genesis song lyrics
Posted By: A Bard
Subject: What is your favorite genesis song lyrics
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 07:42
| What is your favorite song lyric from genesis. So if you had to read the lyrics as poetry which song would be the best |
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 07:49
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I always liked the lyrics to The Lamia. A bit dark, but also very poetic and beautifully descriptive. Honourable mentions to Fountain of Salmacis, Ripples & One for the Vine. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: A Bard
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 07:51
| I total agree with you Peter Gabriel’s rhymes flow like butter in that song |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 08:09
| Mad Man Moon is a nice simple poem---not too abstract but very nice. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 09:29
| I like the lyrics to Carpet Crawlers, absolutely no idea what they mean though. |
Posted By: A Bard
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 09:34
| i know whats carpet crawlers is about. It about how people try to follow the dreams/ goals given to them. They are like babys that don't know what they want to do with their lives. if you don't find this explanation good you can go here https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/1641/" rel="nofollow - https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/1641/ |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 11:49
------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Blacksword wrote:Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 11:54
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Oh, Blood on the Rooftops is another honorable mention. ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 02:11
| Two have already been mentioned (Carpet Crawlers and Blood On The Rooftops) but The Knife always appealed to me lyrically as well. |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 06:03
| Blood on the Rooftops |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 06:05
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Blood on the Rooftops. Ripples |
Posted By: A Bard
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 06:54
| Is Land Of Confusion The sequel to Blood on The Rooftop |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 10:32
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Watcher of the Skies and Firth of Fifth ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 14:42
I hope not
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 02:01
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Home By The Sea is an awesome, novel story. Supper's Ready is like an acid trip dosed incorrectly. The Battle of Epping Forest, for me, is the most visual description of "WTF is happening" that Peter Gabriel ever penned IMHO. I think this is why so many hate it, besides how long a track it is LOL. Imagery overload! Short fat tuxedo wearing men climbing up trees with sling shots full of acorns, local businesses settling vendettas, a clean up crew and the rich judges showing up by limo too late to find only "goo" remaining, lmao. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 07:58
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Mad Man Moon.. 'Within the valley of shadowless death They pray for thunderclouds and rain,But to the multitude who stand in the rain Heaven is where the sun shines. The grass will be greener till the stems turn to brown And thoughts will fly higher till the earth brings them down. Forever caught in desert lands one has to learn To disbelieve the sea.'
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 09:26
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The Chamber of 32 Doors ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: A Bard
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 09:57
I never tried to picture The Battle of Epping forest. I couldn't get plot of it. I know its a gang war that takes in epping forest
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 10:10
Well that's pretty much it.
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Posted By: DevilsInTheDetails
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 10:42
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Supper’s Ready ------------- Mad As A March Hare |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 11:31
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I totally agree with Blacksword, A Bard, and Hackettfan: "The Lamia" is by far my favorite. I'm not a lyrics guy, but the sing-song poetic diction of Gabriel throughout that song is like a balm--not to mention the amazing imagery it evokes. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 15:03
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What? Nobody picked Who Dunnit? ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Kempokid
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 18:18
| Get em Out By Friday and Battle of Epping Forest for me, just because both of them tell such fun, surreal stories. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 18:43
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Genesis' Heathaze, especially the part that starts with "Beware the fisherman..." ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 21:04
| I haven't really payed enough attention... I guess the bits that have better grasped my interest are from Supper's Ready. However, in general I rather dislike Gabriel's lyrics... kind of the impressions he gives with his words, and the twists on the stories (or his attempts at humor), not really something I find enjoyable. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 21:51
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Kind of weird how hardly anyone is actually posting any actual lyrics here. Oh well. Here's a few I like: There's a fat old lady outside the saloon laying out the credit card she plays fortune....the deck is uneven right from the start...... The mountan cuts off the town from view ...like a cancer growth is removed by skill He's been stamped human bacon by some butchery tool If this desert's all that they're ever be then tell me what becomes of me a fall of rain... Throw it away you don't need it up there and remember you don't look back whatever you do.. better start doing it right But I am lost within this half world it hardly seems to matter now I see no sign of freewill so I guess I have to pay pay my way. Some believe that when you die you really live...I believe there never is an end...... Dark and grey an english film for Wednesday play we always watch the queen on christmas day won't you stay Play me my song....here it comes again Where are you my father? Give wisdom to your son. I want a drink to take all the dust and dirt from my throat |
Posted By: POTA
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 23:05
This line has always stuck out to me too. And I love the emotion he sings it with.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 00:00
| Always liked the idea in "Get Em Out Of Friday" kind of farce about capitalism (well today it maybe not be farce anymore). |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 01:20
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Get Em Out By Friday, Undertow, Heathaze, Harold the Barrel They have tons of good lyrics.
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 05:02
The lamia is based on a wet dream that adolescent gabriel had, about being in a swimming pool filled with ribena and a bevy of naked young ladies...I have a similar thought but the pool is filled with beer...and the naked young ladies are all nymphomaniacs.... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 09:02
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The lyrics to "The Carpet Crawlers" always moved me. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 10:29
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My first temptation would be to answer After The Ordeal and Los Endos.  But let's face it: Moonlit Knight and Epping Forest for the Gabriel era Volcano, Robbery and Tail for the next two albums . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 11:37
| One in particular that always stood out for me is: "the mountain cuts off the town from view like a cancer growth is removed by skill...." |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 15:13
I do. It is the only Genesis song of which I know the lyrics by heart. I https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=131354" rel="nofollow - love it ! ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 15:15
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The Lamia. The imagery in that song is terrifying. I love it. :) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 17:49
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Slightly off-topic I wanted to show you this... I had always thought of my Nik Kershaw fandom as something rather strange, and certainly a hard sell on a prog site, but here he sings The Lamia for Steve Hackett: |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 18:29
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Musically it is so terrific, but vocally I have to say it is a bit of a miss. Gabriel is just so much better due to his vocal style, pitch and range. Kershaw is a bit nasally for my liking with this song. Just an opinion of course. :) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 29 2023 at 20:18
| Probably the whole of Lamb is a lyrical masterpiece. Chamber Of 32 Doors stands out but I also like the lyric ''If you think its pretentious you've been taken for a ride, look across the room sonny before you take a side'' |