Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English England musician and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis Genesis (band) . After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More recently he has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various... [read more] - Shaking The Tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life Waiting your time, you're more than just a wife You don't want...
- Red Rain
red rain is coming downred rainred rain is pouring downpouring down all over me I am standing up at the water's edge in my dreamI cannot make a single sound as you screamit can't be that cold, the ground is still warm...
- Across The River
Across the river Across the river Across the river I go
- Secret World
I stood in this sunsheltered place'Til I could see the face behind the faceAll that had gone before had left no traceDown by the railway sidingIn our secret world, we were collidingAll the places we were hiding...
- Biko
September '77Port Elizabeth weather fineIt was business as usualIn police room 619Oh Biko, Biko, because BikoOh Biko, Biko, because BikoYihla Moja, Yihla Moja-The man is dead When I try to sleep at nightI can only...
- I Don't Remember
I got no means to show identificationI got no papers show you what I amYou'll have to take me just the way that you find meWhat's gone is gone and I do not give a damnEmpty stomach, empty headI got empty heart and...
- Intruder
I know something about opening windows and doorsI know how to move quietly to creep across creaky wooden floorsI know where to find precious things in all your cupboards and drawersSlipping the clippersSlipping the...
- No Self Control
Got to get some foodI'm so hungry all the timeI don't know how to stopI don't know how to stop Got to get some sleepI'm so nervous in the nightI don't know how to stopNo, I don't know how to stopI don't know how to...
- Games Without Frontiers
Games Without FrontiersHans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with JaneJane plays with Willi, Willi is happy againSuki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with BrittAdolf builts a bonfire, Enrico plays with it-Whistling tunes we...
- Not One Of Us
It's only waterIn a stranger's tearLooks are deceptive But distinctions are clearA foreign bodyAnd a foreign mindNever welcomeIn the land of the blindYou may look like we doTalk like we doBut you know how it is You're...
- Start
(Instrumental)
- Family Snapshot
The streets are lined with camera crewsEverywhere he goes is newsToday is differentToday is not the sameToday I make the actionTake snapshot into the light, snapshot into the lightI'm shooting into the light Four...
- ...And Through The Wire
And through the wire I hear your voiceAnd through the wire I touch the powerAnd through the wire I see your faceIt's through the wire Friday night, you're staying at home I want youI'm tickling and clicking a...
- Lead A Normal Life
It's nice here with a view of the treesEating with a spoon?They don't give you knives?'Spect you watch those treesBlowing in the breezeWe want to see you lead a normal life
- This Is The Picture
excellent birds flying bird***cellent birdswatch them fly, there they gofalling snowexcellent snowhere it comes. watch it fall long word***cellent wordsI can hear them now this is the picture, this is the picturethis...
- We Do What We're Told
milgram's 37 we do what we're toldwe do what we're toldwe do what we're toldtold to do we do what we're toldwe do what we're toldwe do what we're toldtold to do one doubtone voiceone warone truthone dream
- In Your Eyes
PETER GABRIEL LYRICS"In Your Eyes"love I get so lost, sometimesdays pass and this emptiness fills my heartwhen I want to run awayI drive off in my carbut whichever way I goI come back to the place you areall my...
- That Voice Again
I want to be with youI want to be clearbut each time I tryit's the voice I hearI hear that voice againI'm listening to the conversation:judge and jury in my headit's colouring everythingall we did and saidand still I...
- Don't Give Up
in this proud land we grew up strongwe were wanted all alongI was taught to fight, taught to winI never thought I could failno fight left or so it seemsI am a man whose dreams have all desertedI've changed my face,...
- This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)
flying bird***cellent birdswatch them fly, there they gofalling snowexcellent snowhere it comes. watch it falllong word***cellent wordsI can hear them nowthis is the picture, this is the picturethis is the picture,...
- Mercy Street
looking down on empty streets, all she can seeare the dreams all made solidare the dreams all made realall of the buildings, all of those carswere once just a dreamin somebody's headshe pictures the broken glass, she...
- Only Us
Only Us [x3]It wasn't in the words that kept sticking in their throatsIt wasn't with the angels in their quilted coatsThese battered wings still kick up dustSeduced by the noise and the bright things that glistenI...
- Come Talk To Me
The wretched desert takes it's form, The jackal proud and tight,In search of you I feel my way,Through slowest heaving nightWhatever fear invents, I swear it make no senseI reach out through the border fenceCome down,...
- Kiss That Frog
Jump in the water....Sweet little princess, let me introduce his frognessYou alone can get him singing, He's all puffed up, wanna be your kingOh you can do it, c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'monLady kiss that...
- Fourteen Black Paintings
From the pain come the dreamFrom the dream come the visionFrom the vision come the peopleFrom the people come the powerFrom this power come the change
- Blood Of Eden
I caught sight of my reflectionI caught it in the windowI saw the darkness in my heartI saw the signs of my undoingThey had been there from the startAnd the darkness still has work to doThe knotted chord's untyingThe...
- Washing Of The Water
River, river, carry me onLiving river, carry me onRiver, river, carry me onTo the place where I come fromSo deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a rideIf I should fall, would you swallow me deep...
- Digging In The Dirt
Something in me, dark and stickyAll the time it's getting strongNo way of dealing with this feelingCan't go on like this too longThis time you've gone too farThis time you've gone too farThis time you've gone too far,...
- Love To Be Loved
So, you know how people areWhen it's all gone much too farThe way their minds are madeStill, there's something you should knowThat I could not let showThat fear of letting goAnd in this moment, I need to be neededWith...
- Steam
SteamPeter GabrielStand Back!Stand Back!What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feetThey're on to something, picking upPicking up this heat, this heat{Chorus 1:}Give me steamAnd how you feel to make it realReal as...
- D.I.Y.
Don't tell me what I will do, 'cos I won'tDon't tell me to believe in you, 'cos I don'tBe on your guard, better hostile and ha --don't risk affectionLike flesh to the bone in the no-go zone you're still waiting for...
- White Shadow
Ten coaches roll into the dustChrome windows turned to rust'Hand on inside they know they mustHanging on the green backed words "In God we trust"No one knew if the spirit diedAll wrapped to go like Kentucky FriedTring...
- Modern Love
Hey, I'm feeling so dirty, you're looking so cleanAll you can give is a spin in your washing machineI fly off to Rome to my prima bellaShe leaves me in the rain with telescopic umbrellaOoh the pain -- Modern love can...
- Perspective
I need perspective 'cos I'm facing the wallI need perspective 'cos I'm not that tallI need perspective heard the trumpet callDon't trust my eyes want to know where things fallI need perspective party time for the...
- Sledgehammer
SledgehammerPeter Gabrielyou could have a steam trainif you'd just lay down your tracksyou could have an aeroplane flyingif you bring your blue sky backall you do is call meI'll be anything you needyou could have a...
- Home Sweet Home
Met this girl called Josephine and took her up on my machineWe had a little fun and now we got a little oneHad to get married, being chased out of townFound ourselves a place to live, we put all our money down call...
- A Wonderful Day In A One-Way World
Saturday is shopping day--I drive my car but there's no place to park it--no respect for superman in supermarketI guess there must be trouble but I not been alertedlooking round the store it was all deserted and...
- Indigo
It's too lateThis model's out of dateGot every spare partBut there ain't much heart inside hereNot like the startI was good at the art of survivalI've always triedTo keep my troubles deep insideWhere I can hide...
- Groving Up
Folded in your fleshy purseI am floating once againWhile the muted sounds are pumping rhythmAll the walls close in on mePressure’s building wave on wave‘til the water breaks – and outside I go, ohOne...
- In Your Eyes
Love I get so lost, sometimesDays pass and this emptiness fills my heartWhen I want to run awayI drive off in my carBut whichever way I goI come back to the place you areAll my instincts, they returnAnd the grand...
- Solsbury Hill
Climbing up on Solsbury HillI could see the city lightsWind was blowing, time stood stillEagle flew out of the nightHe was something to observeCame in close, I heard a voiceStanding, stretching every nerveI had to...
- Animal Magic
What did you mean when you opened your mouthand let all our secrets outYou told him what I was aboutmy cover was completely blownI tell you darlin', I've been watching the war filmI got a few ideas of my own'cos after...
- Flotsam And Jetsam
Doing nothing stuck in the mudJust pumping the bloodThe water level's getting lowSomething ugly's going to showIf I could only touch youI guess you'd be alarmedIf only I could touch youI don't mean you no harmIf only...
- On The Air
Built in the belly of junk by the river my cabin standsMade from the trash I dug out 'the heap, with my own fair handsEvery night, I'm back at the s*** and I'm sure no one is thereI'm putting the aerial up, so I can...
- Exposure
Exposure Exposure Exposure Exposure Exposure Exposure ExposureSpace is what I need it's what I feed on Exposure Exposure Exposure Exposure ExposureOut in the open Exposure
- Big Time
Big TimePeter GabrielI'm on my way, I'm making itI've got to make it show, yeahso much larger than lifeI'm going to watch it growingthe place where I come from is a small townthey think so smallthey use small...
- Wallflower
6x6 - from wall to wallShutters on the windows, no light at allDamp on the floor you got damp on the bedThey're trying to get you crazy - get you out of your headThey feed you scraps and they feed you liesTo lower...
- Kiss Of Life
See me a big woman, big woman look how you dance See me a big woman, big woman caught in a trance Dancing on the tabletop, covered up with the Easter feastYou're dancing for the fishermen, from the very large...
- Lay Your Hands On Me
Sat in the corner of the Garden Grill, with plastic flowerson the window silNo more miracles, loaves and fishes, been so busy with thewashing of the dishesReaction level's much too high - I can do without the...
- The Barry Williams Show
The Barry Williams Showlet's goone man at the windowone girl at the barsaw that look of recognitionwhen they know just who you arei seen you on the tvi seen you on that showyou make the people crazyand then you let...
- Growing Up
folded in your fleshy pursei am floating once againwhile the muted sounds are pumping rhythmall the walls close in on mepressure's building wave on wavetill the water breaks - and outside i go, ohone dot, that's on or...
- The Drop
- Sky Blue
lost my time lost my place insky bluethose two blue eyes light your face insky bluei know how to fly, i know how to drown insky bluewarm wind blowing over the earthsky bluei sing through the land, the land sings...
- More Than This
i woke up and the world outside was darkall so quiet before the dawnopened up the door and walked outsidethe ground was coldi walked until i couldn't walk any moreto a place i'd never beenthere was something stirring...
- My Head Sounds Like That
the metal jangles as the key turnsunlock the door, wipe my feet cleanoh my head sounds like thatthe oil is spitting in the saucepani squeeze the sponge and let the cat outoh my head sounds like thatoh my headoh oh...
- Signal To Noise
you know the way that things gowhen what you fight for starts to falland in that fuzzy picturethe writing stands out on the wallso clearly on the wallsend out the signals deep and loudand in this place, can you...
- Darkness
i'm scared of swimming in the seadark shapes moving under meevery fear i swallow makes me smallinconsequential things occuralarms are triggeredmemories stirit's not the way it has to bei'm afraid of what i do not...
- No Way Out
saw a group of people forminground a figure lying downand someone runs to make a phone calland the man kneels on the groundthe man kneels on the groundthe man kneels on the groundthere's a tightening in my chest,i...
- Moribund, The Burgermeister
Caught the chaos in the market squareI don't know what, I don't know why, but something's wrong down thereTheir bodies twistin' and turnin' in a thousand waysThe eyes all rollin' round and round into a distant gazeAh,...
- Down The Dolce Vita
'Hey Mac, see you down the Dolce Vita!'Get back, we don't have time'Cos I hear we're sending off the heroesWhen the year goes, they're out of the bay,Trying to find a way to make it alive''So long' said poor men to...
- Slowburn
We're character actors from the Tower of BabelBewildered, burnt out, hardly ableTo sit astride the high wire cableIt's hard to balance, a little unstable.Through broken eyes and contact lenses'Watched you draw your...
- I Have The Touch
The time I like is the rush hour, cos I like the rushThe pushing of the people - I like it all so muchSuch a mass of motion - do not know where it goesI move with the movement and ... I have the touch I'm waiting for...
- Shock The Monkey
Shock the monkey to lifeShock the monkey to life Cover me when I runCover me through the fireSomething knocked me out' the treesNow I'm on my kneesCover me, darling pleaseMonkey, monkey, monkeyDon't you know when...
- I Go Swimming
Ooh, I go swimming, swimming in the water Swimming in the river, swimming in the sea I go swimming I go swimming, swimming in the water Swimming in the pool, swimming is cool I go swimming The sun is burning, I am...
- San Jacinto
Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fireAround me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - run on skinOutside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sunRed paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has...
- The Family And The Fishing Net
Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams Her honey belly pulls the seams Curves are still upon the hinge Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night The sponge is...
- The Rhythm Of The Heat
Looking out the windowI see the red dust clearHigh up on the red rockStands the shadow with the spear The land here is strongStrong beneath my feetit feeds on the bloodit feeds on the heat The rhythm is below me...
- Waiting For The Big One
The wine's all drunk and so am IHere with the hoi-poloi, don't ask me whyWe're celebratin' anticipatin'; end of the yeareverybody come, everybody here- well more or lessSome already in a messI guess they're waiting...
- Here Comes The Flood
When the night showsthe signals grow on radiosAll the strange thingsthey come and go, as early warningsStranded starfish have no place to hidestill waiting for the swollen Easter tideThere's no point in direction we...
- Humdrum
I saw the man at J.F.K.He took your ticket yesterdayIn the humdrumI ride tandem with a randomThings don't run the way I planned themIn the humdrumHey Valentina, do you want me to beg?You got me cooking I'm a hard...
- Excuse Me
Excuse meYou're wearing out my joie de vieGrabbing those good years againI want to be aloneExcuse meI'm not the man I used to beSomeone else crept in againI want to be aloneExcuse me pleaseI'm looking for Lost...
- Down To Earth
(Featuring The Soweto Gospel Choir)
Did you think that your feet had been boundBy what gravity brings to the groundDid you feel you were trickedBy the future you pickedWell, come on downAll those rules don't applyWhen you're high in the skySo, come on...
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