 Genius Lyrics
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Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
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The second track off of Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album So. It also provided Gabriel with his only #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking in July 1986).
The song is centered around
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Peter Gabriel – Family Snapshot
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This song provides a first hand narrative from a man, who at first might seem to be a photographer. However we learn that he is a murderer carrying out the assassination of a
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Peter Gabriel – D.I.Y.
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[Chorus] / D.I.Y. / D.I.Y. / D.I.Y. / D.I.Y. / [Verse 1] / Don't tell me what I will do, cause I won't / Don't tell me to believe in you, cause I don't / Be on your guard, better
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Peter Gabriel – Lovetown
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[Verse 1] / People go naked and pick up these trails / Someone before me laid down these rails / When it's loaded up too heavy / This engine fails / [Chorus 1] / In lovetown / I
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Peter Gabriel – Biko
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“Biko” pays homage to South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Bantu Biko who died in 1977 while in police detention. In 1980, the song reached the top 40 in the UK and almost
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Peter Gabriel – Mirrorball
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I plant the kind of kiss that wouldn't wake a baby / On the self-same face that wouldn't let me sleep / And the street is singing with my feet / And dawn gives me a shadow I know
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Peter Gabriel – Here It Is
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[Intro] / Here it is / Here it is / [Verse 1] / Here is your crown / Your seal and your rings / Here is your love / For all things / Here is your cart / Your cardboard and piss
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Kid Sistr – Peter Gabriel
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In your eyes again / In your eyes again / Will I find you when / All of the damage is done? / Will I find a friend / Semi-permanent / Just as long as it / Changes the shape of my
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Peter Gabriel – Everybird
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It's not the place that I grow up in / It's not the body I was born with / They're not the trees that I once played in / That now surround us, us in a prison / Every bird was born
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Peter Gabriel (Ft. Kate Bush) – Games Without Frontiers
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This song came out in 1980 and is featured on his 1980 self-titled solo album. The album cover has a photo of Peter Gabriel that is melting away, and the album is therefore often
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Peter Gabriel – Shock the Monkey
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Peter Gabriel’s third and biggest single from his fourth album.
Gabriel said many people misinterpret the song:
Most people saw ‘Shock The Monkey’ as a sort of animal rights song
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Peter Gabriel – Nocturnal
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I dream of birds, birds without wings / Children who grew up to be dangerous things / I was known as the postman, I worked through the night / I made my deliveries sink out of
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Peter Gabriel – Slowburn
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[Verse 1] / We're character actors from the Tower of Babel / Bewildered, burned out, hardly able / To sit astride the high wire cable / It's hard to balance, a little unstable / [
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Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street
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“Mercy Street” was inspired by the poet Anne Sexton, specifically her poem “45 Mercy Street”, which Gabriel read in one of her anthologies.
The song was recorded in Rio de Janeiro
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Peter Gabriel – Intruder
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“Intruder” kicks off Peter Gabriel’s third album with “a sense of urgency”. Its lyrics describe the actions, desires and satisfaction of breaking into somebody else’s house while
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Peter Gabriel – Home Sweet Home
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[Verse 1] / Met this girl called Josephine and took her up on my machine / We had a little fun, and now we got a little one / Had to get married being chased out of town / Found
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Peter Gabriel – Playing for Time (Bright-Side Mix)
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / Far, far away, out amongst the stars / There’s a planet spinning slowly, we call it ours / Any time, any day / Any moment that we bring to life will never
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Peter Gabriel – Four Kinds of Horses (Bright-Side Mix)
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[Verse 1] / It all seemed so simple / Remarkably clear / Like the darkest superhero / You will burst into our fear / They must have seen you looking / Watched everything you said
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Peter Gabriel – Heroes
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[Verse 1] / I, I wish I could swim / Like dolphins, like dolphins can swim / Though nothing will keep us together / We can beat them, forever and ever / [Chorus 1] / Oh, we can be
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Peter Gabriel – The Court (Dark-Side Mix)
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[Verse 1] / You put your hand up, you make your bid / You got your pictures all laid out on the grid / Dug in the garden in the softest ground / Buried everything that you never
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Peter Gabriel – Modern Love
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“Modern Love” appeared in 1977 as the second single off Peter Gabriel’s first self-titled album. It didn’t perform well on the charts. Featuring guitar
by the legendary Robert
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Peter Gabriel – White Shadow
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Ten coaches roll into the dust / Chrome windows turned to rust / Hang on inside, they know they must / Hanging on the green-backed words: “In God
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Peter Gabriel – San Jacinto
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A young Native American undergoes the trials of a Coming of Age ritual, in which a medicine man leads him up into the mountains and purposefully subjects him to a rattlesnake bite
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Peter Gabriel (Ft. Larry Adler) – Summertime
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Summertime / And the livin' is easy / Fish are jumpin' / And the cotton is high / Your daddy's rich / And your mom is good lookin' / So hush little baby / Don't you cry / One of
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Peter Gabriel (Ft. Kate Bush) – No Self Control
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[Verse 1: Peter Gabriel] / Got to get some food / I'm so hungry all the time / [Refrain: Peter Gabriel] / I don't know how to stop / I don't know how to stop / [Verse 2: Peter
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Peter Gabriel – The Court (Bright-Side Mix)
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[Verse 1] / You put your hand up, you make your bid / You got your pictures all laid out on the grid / Dug in the garden in the softest ground / Buried everything that you never
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Peter Gabriel – Here Comes the Flood
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[Verse 1] / When the night shows, the signals grow on radios / All the strange things they come and go as early warnings / Stranded starfish have no place to hide / Still waiting
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Peter Gabriel – I Have the Touch
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[Verse 1] / The time I like is the rush hour, 'cause I like the rush / The pushing of the people, I like it all so much / Such a mass of motion, do not know where it goes / I move
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Peter Gabriel – Steam
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[Intro] / Stand back! / Said stand back! / What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feet / They're on to something, picking up, picking up this heat, this heat / [Chorus] / Give me
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Peter Gabriel – No Way Out
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“No Way Out” explores the emotional anguish of someone whose partner is in a critical state near death. Outside of himself, the narrator witnesses his partner’s collapse and the
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Peter Gabriel – Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Just how much does it have to hurt / Before you let go the pain? / And just how deep does it have to be / Before you yearn to be free again? / Every word can lock you
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Peter Gabriel – So Much (Dark-Side Mix)
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[Verse 1] / So much unfinished business / All sticky with desire / Raking through the empty shells / Of all the rockets we fired / Set the navigation / For the Earth all warm and
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Peter Gabriel – Growing Up
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[Intro] / Folded in your fleshy purse / I am floating once again / While the muted sounds are pumping rhythm / All the walls close in on me / Pressure's building wave on wave
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Peter Gabriel (Ft. Youssou N'Dour) – Shaking the Tree
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[Intro: Youssou N'Dour] / [?] / Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon / We are shakin' the tree / Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon / We are shakin' the tree / [Verse 1: Peter Gabriel] / Waiting
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Peter Gabriel – This Is Home (Dark-Side Mix)
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[Verse 1] / I looked into the deepest sky / Find what you’d shown me / Here beside the churning sea / A calm came over me / [Chorus] / 'Cause I know, this is home / Home is where I
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Peter Gabriel – Not One of Us
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[Verse 1] / It's only water in a stranger's tear / Looks are deceptive, but distinctions are clear / A foreign body and a foreign mind / Never welcome in the land of the blind / [
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