Cover art for Keep It Dark by Genesis

Keep It Dark

Genesis
Track 4 on Abacab 
Sep. 18, 19811 viewer

Keep It Dark Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Found that man reported missing
He wandered in his home
It don't seem too bad if you consider
Just what he's been through
It seems he met up with a gang of thieves
Who mistook him for a man of means
They locked him up, then found he had no money
And so they let him go again
Now he's back at home and happy
Just to see the kids

[Chorus]
I wish that I could really tell you
All the things that happened to me
And all that I have seen
A world full of people, their hearts full of joy
Cities of light with no fear of war
And thousands of creatures with happier lives
And dreams of a future with meaning and no need to hide
Oh, keep it dark

[Verse 2]
It seems strange to have to lie
About a world so bright
Tell instead a made up story
From the world of night
[Chorus]
I wish that I could really tell you
All the things that happened to me
And all that I have seen
A world full of people, their hearts full of joy
Cities of light with no fear of war
And thousands of creatures with happier lives
And dreams of a future with meaning and no need to lie
No need to hate, no need to hide
Oh, keep it dark

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Genius Annotation

This song shares a message from beyond this plane about a place not far we all hope is real but most don’t remember , this writer remembers and tries to say what so many have said in different ways he’s explaining why it’s not discussed and that not many can hear or understand and believe it although we all hope and pray for it and say we believe in … something like this ..

Clearly what the writer knows he’s seen and it is true to them , sadly he like everyone who holds this awareness are unable to explain, can’t be heard or understood and believed without proof and everyone who has ever tried has been mocked , ridiculed, stoned , imprisoned for heresy and literally crucified

I’m not very religious but I know this example is often misunderstood and should be obvious the message is pretty clear , the crowd , the town , the rulers all of them apparently knew he only spread good news and helped them , spoke to them as a friend , a teacher, he is described as humble and kind and spoke often about this same place ,

He helped them heal , taught them how to live well to be happy here , to heal themselves and others, he said they were like him not they could be , they were they are we all are like him so the story goes and he was like his dad and so we are told to know that and simply…believe it about ourselves and everyone else .. forgive our selves and others for stuff here bc we don’t know or didn’t know what we are / we’re doing obviously and that’s it

He used no threats to show the way to get to where we all hope to go after this life .. they believed they were going somewhere and yet they didn’t want the key he held out and offered copies of for free

And Very proud and many religious people watched and agreed to his death sentence and no one dared help him, instead followed the rulers and the majority, cheering his slow torture

Simply watched him die for the crime of being able to remember our home, and tell everyone about it and how to get there without too many problems, he remembered the parent he said we are all related to and each other and our purpose, how to get back after the journey , he shared things like what to watch out for and to live happily and healthier here until it’s time to return home to this same place the writer of this song describes .

. you’d think that was a great thing to hear and would spark a memory or reason to listen and be excited and love him or at least like him too much to kill him or let that happen?

How there isn’t a comment or anything in this about area on this one makes me wonder if anyone understands it or if maybe they’re just exactly … what it says

Oh I forgot to .. keep it dark

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