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Topic: Solsbury Hill
Posted By: condor
Subject: Solsbury Hill
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 09:54
| Does anyone know how Solsbury Hill is about Gabriel leaving Genesis? Why exactly did he leave? |
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Posted By: Vodkagunblast
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 16:04
| http://home.att.net/~los.endos/genesis/faq/faq.htm#sectionone |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date 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. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date 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 By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 22:32
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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 By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 22:41
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Perfect song. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 23:43
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. |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date 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
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 -------------
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Posted By: KoS
Date 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. |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: November 04 2006 at 00:25
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IT'S MOTHS!!! IT'S MOTHS!!!
(should be read ala "it's a cookbook) ------------- "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 |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 04 2006 at 01:10
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. |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date 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. ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: November 11 2006 at 19:50
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View from Solsbury Hill, looking over the Swainswick Valley, with a view of Bath in the background :) ------------- 
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