Genius Lyrics
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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 – Animal Magic
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[Intro] / Animal magic / [Verse 1] / Ah, what did you mean when you opened your mouth and let all our secrets out? / You told him what I was about, my cover was completely blown
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Genesis – Supper's Ready
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Written and composed by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, and Michael Rutherford.
Personnel: Tony Banks – Keyboards, 12-string guitar
Phil Collins
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Peter Gabriel – Indigo
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[Verse 1] / It's too late, this model's out of date / Got every spare part, but there ain't much heart inside here / Not like the start, I was good at the art of survival / I've
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Peter Gabriel (Ft. Youssou N'Dour) – In Your Eyes
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This song features Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour singing through the coda (he sings parts of the chorus as translated into his native Wolof).
Popular lore holds that this
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Peter Gabriel – On the Air
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[Verse 1] / Built in the belly of junk by the river, my cabin stands / Made from the trash, I dug off the heap with my own bare hands / Every night I'm back at the shack, I'm sure
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Peter Gabriel – Perspective
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[Verse 1] / I need perspective / Because I'm facing the wall / I need perspective / Because I'm not that tall / I need perspective / I heard the trumpet-call / Don't trust my eyes
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Peter Gabriel – Flotsam and Jetsam
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[Intro] / Doing nothing, stuck in the mud / Just pumping the blood / The water level's getting low / Something ugly's going to show / [Bridge] / If only I could touch you / I guess
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Genesis – Patricia (Demo 1967 of In Hiding)
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Pick me up, put me down / Push me in, turn me round / Switch me on, let me go / I have a mind of my own / In hiding / Far from the city of night / And the factories of truth / I
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Genesis – In Hiding
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[Chorus] / Pick me up, put me down / Push me in, turn me round / Switch me on, let me go / I have a mind of my own / [Verse 1] / In hiding, far from the city of night / And the
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Peter Gabriel – A Wonderful Day in a One-Way World
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[Verse 1] / Saturday is shopping day and I drive my car / But there's no place to park it / No respect for supermen in the supermarket / I guess there must be trouble, but I've not
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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 – Mother of Violence
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[Verse 1] / Walking the street with her naked feet / So full of rhythm, but I can't find the beat / Snapping her heels, clicking her toes / Everybody knows just where she goes / [
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Genesis – Back in N.Y.C. (Live from The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 24th January 1975)
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I see faces and traces of home / Back in New York City, huh / So you think I'm a tough kid? / Is that what you heard, aha / Yeah, well, I like to see some action / And it gets into
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Genesis – The Light Dies Down on Broadway (Live from The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 24th January 1975)
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As he walks along the gorge's edge / He meets a sense of yesteryear / A window in the bank above his head / Reveals his home amidst the streets / Subway sounds, the sounds of
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Genesis – Stagnation (Live on Sounds of the 70s, BBC Radio One Session, 10th May 1971)
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Stagnation / To Thomas S. Eiselberg, a very rich man, who was wise enough to spend all his fortunes in burying himself. Many miles beneath the ground as the only surviving member
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Genesis – The Musical Box
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The explanation of this song, from the liner notes of the LP:
THE MUSICAL BOX
While Henry Hamilton-Smythe minor (8) was playing croquet with Cynthia Jane De Blaise-William (9
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Peter Gabriel – Exposure
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[Chorus] / Exposure / Exposure / Exposure / Exposure / Exposure / Exposure / Exposure / [Chorus] / Exposure / Exposure / Exposure / [Bridge] / Space is what I need / It's what I
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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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The Cranberries – Dreams
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“Dreams” was the first single released by The Cranberries after being signed to Island Records. However, the band’s video for “Linger” was picked up by MTV in 1994 while they
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Clay Crosse – Midnight Cry
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I hear the sound / Of a mighty rushing wind / And it's closer now / Than it's ever been / I can almost hear the trumpet / As Gabriel sound the chord / And at the midnight cry / We'
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Ed Sheeran – Perfect
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“Perfect” is an old-fashioned love ballad inspired by and dedicated to Ed’s then-fiancée (now wife) Cherry Seaborn. It is the fourth single from Sheeran’s 2017 album ÷.
He
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