Artist: Peter Gabriel
Track: Sledgehammer
Lyrics
You could have a steam train
If you'd just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back
All you do is call me
I'll be anything you need
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
Oh let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Show me round your fruit cakes
'Cause I will be your honey bee
Open up your fruit cakes
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be
I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
You'd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
I'm going to be-the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it
Sledge sledge sledgehammer
I kicked the habit (I kicked the habit)
Shed my skin (Shed my skin)
This is the new stuff (This is the new stuff)
I go dancing in, (We could go dancing in)
Oh won't you show for me (Show for me)
I will show for you (Show for you)
Show for me (Show for me), I will show for you
Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you
Only you, you've been coming through
Going to build that power
Build, build up that power, hey
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
Going to feel that power, build in you
Come on, come on, help me do
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
It's what we're doing, doing
All day and night, come on and help me do, come on and help me do
Full Lyrics and Meaning
SongMeanings Interpretations
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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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Genius Meanings
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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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[Intro] / Hey, hey, you / Hey, hey, you / Tell me how have you been? / Tell me how have you been? / [Verse 1] / You could have a steam train / If you just lay down your tracks
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[Intro] / Hey, hey, you / Tell me how have you been? / [Verse 1] / You could have a steam train / If you just lay down your tracks / You could have an aeroplane flying / If you
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Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer (Live) [Athens 1987]
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[Intro] / "One! Two! Three!" / [Verse 1] / You could have a steam train / If you just lay down your tracks / You could have an aeroplane flying / If you bring your blue sky back
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Hey, hey you do / Hey you wanna do a job? / You could have a steam train / If you'd just lay down your tracks / You could have an aeroplane flying / If you bring your blue sky back
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You could have a steam train / If you'd just lay down your tracks / You could have an aeroplane flying / If you bring your blue sky back / All you do is call me / I'll be anything
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[Intro] / Hey, hey you / Tell me how have you been? / [Verse 1] / You could have a steam train / If you just lay down your tracks / You could have an aeroplane flying / If you
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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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