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Peter Gabriel Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Peter Gabriel Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more.
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Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer Lyrics
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The song is about sex. Don't overthink it. All three verses are clearly referring to sexual acts or sexual parts, and others have explained it perfectly above.
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Peter Gabriel - Big Time Lyrics
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To me, this song is about, quite literally, a man's ambitions as he moves from the small town life to the "Big Time". The way it's presented kind of evokes a ...
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Peter Gabriel - Secret World Lyrics
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Gabriel has explained that this song is about "when a couple becomes so close, that bits of them disappear, into a place called the secret world." So that makes ...
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Peter Gabriel - Red Rain Lyrics
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The song is a combination of several inspirations. The lyrics directly reference a recurring dream Gabriel was having where he swam in his pool drinking cold ...
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Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up Lyrics
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This song was written as the British coal miners strike entered its second year. It describes the utter destruction of the mining industry by Thatcher, the ...
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Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes Lyrics
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This song is about someone whom is confessing thier love for someone else. They want to run and hide, but no matter what, fate keeps pulling them back to where ...
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Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street Lyrics
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This song is about finding/dreaming of relief from suffering-mercy. Mercy, according to this song is suicide or finding daddy's arms/mercy street. She is ...
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Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers Lyrics
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Essentially, the main message is that politics and war are stupid, childish pastimes, and our world leaders should just grow up. It is peppered with references ...
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Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember Lyrics
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This song is about the conflict over leaving Genesis. Similar to what tdoggpaint says. Even the video has PG bumping into walls and catching his reflection in ...
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Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto Lyrics
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The song is about how the native american culture has been watered down, and all but completely eradicated by the white man when they came to the country. It's ...
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Peter Gabriel - Digging In The Dirt Lyrics
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This song is about the break-up of Peter Gabriel's relationship with Rosanna Arquette (the subject of the song, "In Your Eyes" and his efforts to deal with the ...
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Peter Gabriel - The Book of Love (Magnetic Fields cover) Lyrics
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The point of this song is to show that love is not rational. The "book of love is long and boring". If love were a book, say a textbook, it's a deep, ...
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Peter Gabriel - Washing Of The Water Lyrics
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The washing of the water is a spiritual cleansing that can only happen when you are prepared for it. To me, this song is about asking for strength to do the ...
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Peter Gabriel - My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire cover) Lyrics
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The entire meaning is quite clear. To be frozen in fear, to look down at one's body crippled in fear, sickness, disability, etc., one couldn't help but find ...
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Peter Gabriel - Intruder Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot Lyrics
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The song just illustrates the desperate lengths some adults will go to to gain the attention they may not have been given when they were children, especially in ...
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Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey Lyrics
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His specific "demons" are difficult to identify from the video alone, but the lyrics of the song (and other comments made by Peter Gabriel) definitely indicate ...
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Peter Gabriel - More Than This Lyrics
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Given that the album was about life and death, to me this song is about a person's yearning to comprehend existence and reality beyond life and death, to ...
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Peter Gabriel - Steam Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Peter Gabriel - Kiss That Frog Lyrics
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This song, to me, is about a lad (the frog) who turns into a handsome prince. He whispers sweet nothings into her ear, has sex with her, then turns back into a ...
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Peter Gabriel - Humdrum Lyrics
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“Listen to my heart, don't need no stethoscope” reinforces the message of how much in love he is. His heart is beating loudly for her. His thoughts filled with ...
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Peter Gabriel - Blood Of Eden Lyrics
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This is a song about trying to patch up emotional and existential holes with consumerism. The point is that the heated and the holy are just as vulnerable to ...
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Peter Gabriel - Growing Up Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - Growing Up Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - Humdrum Lyrics
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“Listen to my heart, don't need no stethoscope” reinforces the message of how much in love he is. His heart is beating loudly for her. His thoughts filled with ...
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Peter Gabriel - Blood Of Eden Lyrics
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This is a song about trying to patch up emotional and existential holes with consumerism. The point is that the heated and the holy are just as vulnerable to ...
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Peter Gabriel - The Drop Lyrics
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This is an allegory for our own deaths and the deaths of those we know. We see those who die before us - they have vanished from sight, and maybe we have faith ...
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Peter Gabriel - Indigo Lyrics
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Fantastic song and about dying of old age as I read it. Not by accident, murder or being stolen away at an earlier-than-expected age. Just good, old-fashioned ...
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Peter Gabriel - Not One Of Us Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - No Self Control Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Peter Gabriel - A Wonderful Day in a One-Way World Lyrics
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As I can tell, it's about a trip to the supermarket. No one is at the supermarket except one person, who is apparently Albert Einstein. He says no one is there ...
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Peter Gabriel - Biko Lyrics
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This song is about the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Biko was a member of the movement who was murdered by the government. There was a movie entitled ...
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Peter Gabriel - Moribund The Burgermeister Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping. ... This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others ...
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Peter Gabriel - Wallflower Lyrics
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This song is about how we treat animals such as apes as our doctors test them and try to get them to speak etc. thats what I hear but others could be right as ...
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Peter Gabriel - Down To Earth Lyrics
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Anyway, it's a fine lyric that strikes a good balance. It alludes to the movie's main theme about humankind finding itself after being Lost in Two Spaces--the ...
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Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - Darkness Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Peter Gabriel - Downside Up Lyrics
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I love this song. Peter Gabriel in a duet with Liz Fraser? Yes, please! To me, the lyrics describe the process of dying and going toward an afterlife. The ...
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Peter Gabriel - White Shadow Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Peter Gabriel - Signal To Noise Lyrics
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To explain: if noise, the stupid random acts of objects making vibrations in the air could be seen as the stupid random acts of life; then surely a signal, a ...
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Peter Gabriel - Down the Dolce Vita Lyrics
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'Hey Mac, see you down the Dolce Vita! ... 'So long' said poor men to their families, Be strong 'til we get back home. ... They shout and then we leave the harbor.
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Peter Gabriel - Flume (Bon Iver cover) Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
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Peter Gabriel - And Through The Wire Lyrics
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This song is about his friendship with Phil Collins, and the 'underground' means they had to employ to communicate with each other without it exploding across ...
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Peter Gabriel - I Have The Touch Lyrics
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Like so many great songwriters, Peter Gabriel is probably is on the autistic scale. Touch and motion calm/ground him, and probably more so than most as ...
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