Anthony George "Tony" Banks (born 27 March 1950) is an English England composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist. He is one of the founding members of progressive rock group Genesis Genesis (band) and one of only two members (the other being bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford) who have been with Genesis throughout its entire history.
As a member of Genesis, Banks has been a pioneer in the use of... [read more] - Still It Takes Me By Surprise
It can be strangeIn the world we live inSo many things are not how they appearWe sit and talkOf what it doesn't matterThe meaning of the words we usehides behind the soundYet still it takes me by surpriseHow the...
- The Final Curtain
It's been fun but the time has comeTo bring down the final curtain move alongTime to face what you know in your heartThat the world keeps on turning you've lost your partIt is never endingTake a look if you're not...
- I
Dawn comes first with a shift of lightThat rests on a shadow that becomes my ownWhat's in my head will not sustain meWhat's in my heart is not enough to cope.Shed my skin and break free of thisIn search of something...
- Back To Back
He's not the only oneTo think that things are going wrongand all around is only second best.Time was when all was fairand we built solid castles in the airHe said that back to back in time's the way to goBetter in my...
- Red Day On Blue Street
They're kissing babies and telling me liesThey're taking over my televisionThey're making noises that sound so wiseTrying to influence my decisionRituals old fashionedWith speeches so proud and passionateHope reigns,...
- Another Murder Of A Day
She dreams china white behind her eyes of china blueHer future wrapped in velvet and her memories wrapped in warm cottonwoolAnd the coffee groundsare burying the hours that she killedin another murder of a dayHer...
- Hero For An Hour
I was walking along at the end of the dayI was walking along when it began to rainand by the edge of the path was a suitable treeI decided to wait there patientlyThen a scream cut through the airand a voice spoke much...
- Water Out Of Wine
In the dark it seems so easy nowIf you could just remember how the problem can be solvedThe sun comes up lightening the skyBut everyday is the sameDoubts return and the answers desert youFragments fall around youAll...
- Angel Face
Are you ready for the rest of your lifeDoes your comforter provideAre you ready to remain evermore in your world of iceAll your feelings all locked insideAre you a woman or just a mannequinDoes your heart beat like...
- The Gift
The door is opening there's a glimmer of lightKeep on pushing it will give tonightAnd I don't care if it takes me longIt really doesn't matter if its right or wrongThe fires are burning and its warm inside my soulAs...
- I Wanna Change The Score
I wanna be in another placeSome other body and someone else's faceDon't wanna be in hereI need a space I can disappearI wanna play me a different partAnother feeling in someone else's heartDon't wanna cry out...
- A Piece Of You
A street in Paris in the rainI shoot in black and white a hundred framesI watch your make-upBegin to runYou show a strange uneaseBut you're my subject and it's me you pleaseI feel your spirit freezeAs the shutter...
- Only Seventeen
She was an only childWith her body and mind she had to much attentionToo much of everythingShe was an angel childBut the devil within her would test her on the wayInto the dark filled places undergroundShe entered in...
- Don't Turn Your Back On Me
I could be a tigerA loser or a fighterA man or mouseYou don't see meI could be a wonderAn alien among youBut you won't knowCan't you see, can't you seeI stand in open sunlightI scream and shoutI warn you don't turn...
- The Serpent Said
In the silence of the night, a serpent shapeMoves its way across the stony floorIn the comfort of your life, the serpent said,You know that you could have still more,Picture where you want to beThe door is open...
- Something To Live For
And when in times like these so much is secondhandBut somehow passed off as the newYou need to believe some things are worthwhileToo weak to break out from the hold that pins you downTo loose the voluntary chainsToo...
- Walls Of Sound
To be here with you alone beside meIs to leave the world behindTo desire and to holdTo have longed for and be toldI see you, I see no one else at allIn my life, in my heart for evermoreWords of comfort, walls of...
- Never Let Me Know
The key is in the front doorThe clock is on the wallThe coals are in the fireplaceNothing has moved at allBut as you look around youStill nothings quite the sameThe windows are cracked the curtains are tornYour life...
- Charity Balls
You think you're safe from all that's gone beforeNo one can touch you now for evermoreIt's out of sight but not out of your mindYou cannot lose it you can only pretendThis is the end my friend this is the endYou're a...
- Strictly Incognito
I want to tell you all about a young manHe'll be known as DanThen he was living down in San DiegoDrove an ice-cream vanOne night he met a girl in Club AlamoBut she was strictly incognitoThey had a drink and when he...
- An Island In The Darkness
Like a fuse to the end will burnLike a wave when the tide has turnedYou keep on coming regardlessYou won't accept defeatAnd in the light of a cold grey dawnWhen all seemed lost and you felt so forlornYou sensed a...
- For A While
I feel it leading me Away to I don't know where.I might be back someday,But the people and things will changeAnd no one will remember me then.Don't need no sympathy,For soon I'll forget everything.I feel it fading...
- You
How strange I never noticedYour eyes, or the colour of your hair.It seems to me you grow more beautifulIn every way.With every single passing day.Love crept in unseen,Found me wantingI didn't even have the sense to...
- In The Dark
If you know my story now,Please don't tell Don't want to hear,It can only bring me pain.Maybe one day before I dieI'll open that door,Maybe I'll cry,But for now I'll live in the Dark.
- A Curious Feeling
(It's a curious feeling)It's a curious feeling to see the edge receding,It seems the more I know, the more I don't know,does this ever end?If you listened to fanatics of the left or right,You'd think they'd solve it...
- After The Lie
For a while I could not lose this childhood spectre,I felt others saw it too.Now I notice a change in the way that people look at me,And how those people look to me.I see they're not so clever, I like them better for...
- Somebody Else's Dream
Too good to last, how those four words ring in my ears.A voice from the past has been heard again,Whether its real or not, I can't say I careBut my memory's going and my mind is losing its grip.I'm walking on thinning...
- The Lie
Thirty odd years before on some grass covered wasteland,A boy is observed on his own who is watching and playing.He's just made a pact with himself, If that rabbit over thereDoesn't go down yonder hole,Let the ground...
- Lucky Me
My name is unimportant And my job you could call meanBut I like the work and I do it wellThat's enough for me.I think there was a time when I Could do, and did, much more.I have dreams in which I captain the shipAnd...
- And The Wheels Keep Turning
And the wheels keep turning, all the time,But there's no pounding or purring, not a sound,Just a feeling of stirring, hold them down, hold them down, hold themdown.Yes it might happen this way,You have no warning, she...
- K2
You and me, we got to go somewhere,Somewhere where there's air to breathe,Even though we can't see daylight,Somehow we can feel the breeze, oh no,Gonna be there someday - oh, gonna make it some way - oh.Climbing cross...
- At The Edge Of Night
In fading starlight, creeping gloom,At the edge of night,I dream inside this half-lit room,It's gonna be alright,And I will say, that I will stay with youAnd be forever by your side,No matter what before might lieOr...
- Say You'll Never Leave Me
On a cold clear night in November,All the people have gone to bed.We found ourselves upon a cliff edge,Looking out to sea.Then a sight in the pale moonlight,Made us shake our heads in dismay,A wave taller than the...
- Moving Under
Into the night, but out of the dark,To be cornered and yet to survive,The jester performed, with his body he scorned,With his voice he amused, and a little confusedHis masters the King and Queen,The laugh of the King...
- Sometime Never
Sometimes I have to ask myself,How it is that we survive,We know trains, boats, planes and carsWill sometimes fail,And if one don't get you then the other one will,And if the other don't get you then another one...
- By You
As I step inside the street sound,A growl of thunder turns my head round,I see one face in the crowd,Like a beacon in the rain,I see your sunshine calling to me.As the people rush on by you,I will move myself aside...
- This Is Love
Here am I, lost in a world behind me,All alone, just like before you found me.Now I stare out on the traffic in the city,Even in the dark,And the rain falls on my window sill.This is love, girl, call it what you...
- Man Of Spells
In shadowy holes, the light disappears,Evening is with us now,And all around begins the movement,The many creatures of the night prepare.Undisturbed by the sound, with noiseless tread,A figure comes into view,A trail...
- Raincloud
When private rainclouds formAnd tears seem the likely solutionTry to shelter from the stormWho knows what tomorrow might bringNow the sun breaks through the darkAnd life isn't quite as confusingRelease your cloud of...
- I'll Be Waiting
Night and once again I hear you callingIn my mind you speak the words I long to hearI see your face can even feel your breathingThough I know that you are never really thereIf I had been born bolder you would be truly...
- Big Man
The hot seat's vacant cos he gave up the reinsHe's kissed his title goodbye run far awayHe's gone to ground in some hole - I don't know whereAll I know is somehow that I'm big man up hereI don't need your worshipJust...
- The More I Hide It
The more I dream of youThe less you want me toThe more I need to hold youThe less you seem to careIf I knew what I was meant to doThen I'd be doing it all the timeIf I could find the keyI'd keep the doorway open...
- The Border
Dry forever the sun blinds off the whitewashed wallsUnbelieving she looks up from the unswept floorYou don't have to go you don't have to tell meAll that talk of lofty causes wrapped in foolish prideThat's a lieThat...
- Throwback
I am the throwbackBut you don't know I walk amongst you every dayI don't need moonlightOr any secret word to make the change in meI don't know what you see in your rulesIn conversation or in delicate feelings of...
- That Night
I was always insecureI never was too sureThat what we did that night was rightOr very wrongIt was never in disputeIt was always understoodBut I can't leave it thereNow what am I supposed to do about it Rest your...
- Diamonds Aren't So Hard
(And diamonds aren't so hard to find)Don't let it bring you downYour woman's gone and left youThe taxman's here he's knocking on your door - ohDon't let it bring you downYour brand new house is burningThey're dumping...
- Queen Of Darkness
If you want me to I will be your fairy princessYour dream of romanceIf you ask me then I can be your queen of darknessTake you belowIt don't matter at allDevil or priestess - teacher or foolWhat you want will be what...
- A House Needs A Roof
Wandering in a dazeThrough a cold mechanical mazeI am lost and confusedI am always the loserYou tell me there's a placeWhere I can be aliveIs it near is it far is it somewhere betweenThis land you say exists that I've...
- Lion Of Symmetry
The stars ignite as the sun setsAnd disappears in a river of dancing molten goldIn the moon rise the lion steps out tonightNo law, no sin, no rip it up and start againNo tears, no pain, no fear, no more chainsThe...
- You Call This Victory
You call this victory you say the battle's wonYou call this justice when without her there's no sunYou call this freedom, well you make up your own mindI call this madness looking from the other sideWhen this thing...
- Shortcut To Somewhere
He was a fallen angel from the Tower of BabbleStrung out on the high wireAnother skyline drifter an immaculate strangerA legend for the wild west endSo when you're running in the slipstream of the ratrace veteransOnly...
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