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The crawlers cover the floor
In the red ochre corridor
For my second sight of people
They've more life's blood than before
They're moving in time
To a heavy wooden door
Where the needle's eye is winking
Closing on the poor

Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.

Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their fun.
Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show,
It's the same old ending - time to go.
Get out!

(Для тех, чьё "Вторжение" против нас.)

Скажи, что моя жизнь почти началась,
Героем зови, в самом деле,
Наобещай – извращённые сны
Засветятся злом в твоём теле.
Здесь - мир ужасным стал
И это всё зло надо рушить.

All I need is a TV show, that and the radio
Down on my luck again, down on my luck again
I can show you I can show you some of the people in my life
I can show you I can show you some of the people in my life
It's driving me mad just another way of passing the day
I, I get so lonely when she's not there
I,I.I,I,I!...

The chamber was in confusion-all the voices shouting loud.
I could only just hear, a voice quite near say, 'Please help me
through the crowd'
'Said if I helped her thru' she could help me too, but I could
see that she was wholly blind.
But from her pale face and her pale skin, a moonlight shined.

Lilywhite Lilith,

01. Duke's intro (behind the lines)
02. Turn it on again
03. No son of mine
04. Land of confusion
05. In the cage medley
06. Hold on my heart
07. Home by the sea
08. Follow you, follow me

The winter's bitterness is lost
It's the fireside warmth that comforts me
The peace for all my thoughts
The night brings shadows to the street
It's the time for dreams of things to come
To creep inside their lives
You're concealing every feeling
Can you find me, deep inside you

Look up on the wall, there on the floor,
Under the pillow, behind the door.
There's a crack in the mirror.
Somewhere there's a hole in a window-pane.
Do you think I'm to blame?
Tell me do you think I'm to blame?

(when they do it) you're never there.

Like the dust that settles all around me,
I must find a new home.
The ways and holes that used to give me shelter,
Are all as one to me now.
But i, I would search everywhere
Just to hear your call,
And walk upon stranger roads than this one
In a world I used to know before.

I don't belong here, said old Tessa out loud.
Easy, love, there's the Safe Way Home.
- thankful for her Fine Fair discount, Tess Co-operates

Still alone in o-hell-o
- see the deadly nightshade grow

ENGLISH RIBS OF BEEF CUT DOWN TO 47p LB

(Rutherford)

There's nothing here that I can understand
And no one cares I'm a lonely man
I touch your face and I don't know why
I call your name but you're going by
Now I'm alone again.

She calls out to the man on the street
sir, can you help me?
Its cold and Ive nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?

He walks on, doesnt look back
He pretends he cant hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street

All the pumping's nearly over for my sweet heart,
This is the one for me,
Time to meet the chef,
O boy! running man is out of death.
Feel cold and old, it's getting hard to catch my breath.
's back to ash, now, you've had your flash boy
The rocks, in time, compress
your blood to oil,

I see faces and traces of home back in New York City-
So you think I'm a tough kid? Is that what you heard?
Well I like to see some action and it gets into my blood.
The call me the trail blazer-Rael-electric razor.
I'm the pitcher in the chain gang, we don't believe in pain
'cos we're only as strong, as the weakesst link in the chain.
Let me out of Pontiac when I was just seventeen,
I had to get it out of me, if you know what I mean, what I mean.

I held the book so tightly in my hands,
I saw your picture, heard you call my name
There was something strange, I could not look away
I wanted to be there, I wanted to go

You gave me no warning
You gave no reason
But I was waiting you

Dark and grey, an English film, the Wednesday play
We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day
Won't you stay?

Though your eyes see shipwrecked sailors you're still dry
The outlook's fine though Wales might have some rain
Saved again.

Calling all stations
Can anybody tell me, tell me exactly where I am
I've lost all sense of direction
Watching the darkness closing around me
Feeling the cold all through my body
That's why I'm calling all stations
In the hope that someone hears me
A single lonely voice

The scattered pages of a book by the sea
Held by the sand and washed by the waves
A shadow forms cast by a cloud,
Skimming by as eyes of the past, but the rising tide
Absorbs them effortlessly claiming.

They told of one who tired of all singing,
"Praise him, praise him."

There is lambswool under my naked feet
The wool is soft and warm, gives off some kind of heat
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed
Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid

The fleas cling to the golden fleece hoping they'll find peace
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid

Most of you know of a story of a white girl - had a best friend
Her family - she loved them, but she couldn't tell them
About this little brown boy - she loved him too
But somehow, she knew they just wouldn't understand
Well this ain't that
This ain't that story painted white and black
Red, brown, yellow, grey - there's only one fellow race
That is humanity. Let's open the canopy

You say that I put chains on you
But I don't think that's really true
But if you want to be free from me
You gotta lose me in another world


Send me to the Congo I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead

I'm counting out time,
Got the whole thing down by numbers.
All those numbers!
Give my guidance!
O Lord I need that now.

The day of judgement's come,
And you can bet that I've been resting,

Wrapped up in some powdered wool-I guess I'm losing touch.
Don't tell me I'm dying, 'cos I ain't changed that much.
The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am,
Some kind of jam?
Cuckoo Cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?

There's nothing I can recognise; this is nowhere that I've known.
With no sign of life at all, I guess that I'm alone,

Wake up now, this is the time you've waited for

Far below, where shadows fester as they grow
An army thousands strong, obsessed by right and wrong
Sense their time is coming near
So they turn towards the light from their region of the night
Marching on and on
They near the air, it won't be long

"Can you tell me where my country lies ?"
Said the unifaun to his true love's eyes
"It lies with me !", cried the Queen of Maybe
- For her merchandise, he traded in his prize

"Paper late !", cried a voice in the crowd
"Old man dies !" The note he left was signed
"Old Father Thames" - it seems he's drowned

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)

The grey of evening fills the room
No need to look outside
Oh to see or feel the rain

I reach across to touch her
But I know that she's not there

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)

In the early 1800's, large groups of mainly unskilled labourers built
England's Railways. The cost in human terms alone was very high ...
Leaving my family behind me
Not knowing what lay ahead
Waving goodbye, as I left them in tears
Remembering all we'd said

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)

Times were good,
She never thought about the future, she just did what she would
Oh but she really cared
About her music, it all seemed so important then,
And she dreamed that every time that she performed
Everyone would cry for more,

1. «Behind The Lines» 5:31
2. «Duchess» 6:40
3. «Guide Vocal» 1:18
4. «Man Of Our Times» 5:35
5. «Misunderstanding» 3:11
6. «Heathaze» 5:00

7. «Turn It On Again» 3:50

Duke-1980

1. Behind The Lines (5:31)
2. Duchess (6:38)
3. Guide Vocal (1:22)
4. Man Of Our Times (5:36)
5. Misunderstanding (3:15)
6. Heathaze (5:02)

I am the one who guided you this far,
All you know and all you feel.
Nobody must know my name
For nobody would understand,
And you kill what you fear,
And you fear what you don't understand.

I call you for I must leave,

See my hand is trembling
touching all that's real
Once it stroked love's body
now it claws the past.
The scent of a flower,
The colours of the morning,
Friends to believe in,
Tears soon forgotten,

When you're asleep they may show you
Aerial views of the ground,
Freudian slumber empty of sound.

Over the rooftops and houses,
Lost as it tries to be seen,
Fields of incentive covered with green.

Гаснущий свет...

В другой раз
Все могло бы быть по-другому,
О, если бы был у нас шанс
Начать все сначала!
Но теперь есть только
Еще одно гаснущее воспоминание,

You are terrified by the smallest sound
Because you live your life in such a sheltered world
As do those who surround you
Well I have seen you stung by poisonous flies
And you suffer much too much from their bites
There you sit in your comfort watching other people get caught by the
storm

The path is clear
Though no eyes can see
The course laid down long before.
And so with gods and men
The sheep remain inside their pen,
Though many times theyve seen the way to leave.

He rides majestic

There's something solid forming in the air,
The wall of death is lowered in Times Square.
No-one seems to care,
They carry on as if nothing was there.
The wind is blowing harder now,
Blowing dust into my eyes.
The dust settles on my skin,
Making a crust I cannot move in

Stay with me,
My love I hope you'll always be
Right here by my side if ever I needed you
Oh my love

In your arms,
I feel so safe and so secure
Everyday is such a perfect day to spend

Sunday at six when they close both the gates
A widowed pair,
Still sitting there,
Wonder if theyre late for church
And its cold, so they fasten their coats
And cross the grass, theyre always last.

Passing by the padlocked swings,

[John Pebble of Styx Enterprises]

"Get 'em out by Friday!
You don't get paid till the last one's well on his way.
Get 'em out by Friday!
It's important that we keep to schedule, there must be no delay."

[Mark Hall of Styx Enterprises (otherwise known as "The Winkler")]

I am the one who guided you this far,
All you know and all you feel.
Nobody must know my name,
For nobody would understand,
And you kill what you fear.

I call you for I must leave,
You're on your own until the end.

Came the night a mist dissolved the trees
And in the broken light colours fly, fading by.
Pale and cold as figures fill the glade
Grey is the web they spin, on and on, and on and on.
Through the flame still summer lingers on
Though her pictures soon shatter.

All, always the same.

NEWS:
A well-known Bognor restaurant-owner disappeared early this morning.
Last seen in a mouse-brown overcoat,
Suitably camouflaged,
They saw him catch a train.

MAN-IN-THE-STREET:
Father of three, it's disgusting!

Hold on my heart
Just hold on to that feeling
We both know we've been here before
We both know what can happen

Hold on my heart
'Cause I'm looking over your shoulder
Ooh please don't rush in this time

== HOME BY THE SEA ==

Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall
stealing through the dark of night
Climbing through a window, stepping to the floor
checking to the left and the right
Picking up the pieces, putting them away
something doesn't feel quite right

Hot sun beating down
burning my feet just walking around.
Hot sun making me sweat
'Gators getting close, hasn't got me yet

I can't dance, I can't talk.
Only thing about me is the way I walk.
I can't dance, I can't sing

Hot sun beating down
burning my feet just walking around.

Hot sun making me sweat
'Gators getting close, hasn't got me yet

I can't dance, I can't talk.
The only thing about me is the way I walk.

Heavenly Father, it's been a while since I've head Your voice last
Please help! I've been enduring such a stormy forecast
It seems to be a lengthy storm that's on a warpath
What'd I do wrong this time? I know that's why You're mad
If so, I'm on my knees again , and I repent
Please alleviate this problem over present tense
I'm begging for forgiveness so Your love will circumvent
And cancel out the clouds blocking me from heaven sent

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)
Released as B-side of single "Throwing It All Away", 1986

Ooh yeah
You know I never wanted to be closer
And I'll still be here until it's over
No, no I never wanted to be closer
But you'll be back, I could've told you

I'm all in with it with God on this pilgrimage
This game is the illest scrimmage the enemy indiscriminate
Hell who we stand against we know the gates won't prevail
They emptying plenty shells and taking soldiers as well
Exposing traitors who gon betray us the goal and aim is
To glorify Lord and Savior the One who molded and made us
Won't turn away from the grace he poured on the poorly pagans
Enduring pain for his haters not pouring flames on the traitors

Got out of bed, wasn't feeling too good
With my wallet and my passport, a new pair of shoes
The sun is shining so I head for the park
With a bottle of Tequila, and a new pack of cigarettes

I got a cousin and she got a friend
Who thought that her aunt knew a man who could help
At his apartment I knocked on the door

Pick me up, put me down
Push me in, turn me round
Switch me on, let me go
I have a mind of my own

In hiding
Far from the city of night
And the factories of truth

Moving down the water
John is drifting out of sight,
It's only at the turning point
That you find out how to fight.

In the cold, feel the cold
All around
And the rush of crashing water

Leaving all the world to play, they disappear
And the leaves have gathered dust to run like deer
Tearing pieces from our lives to feed the dawn
Mist surrounds the seagulls christened by the storm

Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please
And I look for something else
Rain drops pouring down the rooftops

All that time I was searching, nowhere to run to, it started me thinking,
Wondering what I could make of my life, who'd be waiting,
Asking all kinds of questions, to myself, but never finding the answers,
Crying at the top of my voice, no one listening,
All this time, I still remember everything you said
There's so much you promised, how could I ever forget.

Listen, you know I love you, but I just can't take this,

It's one o'clock and time for lunch,
When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench
I can always hear them talk.

There's always been Ethel:
"Jacob, wake up! You've got to tidy your room now."
And then Mister Lewis:
"Isn't it time that he was out on his own?"

INSIDE

Seems they're letting him out next year
He's behaving himself I hear
Governor Conway says it will be fine
Just as long as he can tow the line

It's the same old story

Well, I've been waiting, waiting here so long
But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong
Oh, now I know, she has a built in ability
To take everything she sees
And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her

She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart

Reach out, hands in the air,
Don't care just what they're saying
Hold out, just keep on hoping against hope
That it's gonna get better
Don't worry, there's no hurry for you, for me,
Everything's gonna come around
Shout out, someone will listen to you, to me,
Someone's gonna see

Do you see the face on the TV screen,
coming at you ev'ry Sunday?

See that face on the billboard.
That man is me.

On the cover of the magazine,
there's no question why I'm smiling.

Jesus He Knows Me - Ей-богу, Иисус знает меня

You see the face on the tv screen
Coming at you every sunday
See that face on the billboard
That man is me

Ты видишь лицо на экране ТВ

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)

Found that man reported missing,
He wandered in his home.
It don't seem to bad if you consider
Just what he's been through.

Seems he met up with a gang of thieves,

I must've dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street
Now did you read the news today
They say the danger's gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
There burning into the night

(Mike Rutherford)

Ah, don't you know, I've been on my own
But I'm coming home.
And I'd like you to be there,
I feel a little cold in the air,
And you're not anywhere.
You're just another face, I used to know.

The chamber was in confusion-all the voices shouting loud.
I could only just hear, a voice quite near say, "Please help me
through the crowd"
'Said if I helped her thru' she could help me too, but I could
see that she was wholly blind.
But from her pale face and her pale skin, a moonlight shined.

Lilywhite Lilith,

Looking for someone, I guess I'm doing that,
Trying to find a mem'ry in a dark room.
Dirty man, you're looking like a Buddha,
I know you well - yeah.

Keep on a straight line, I don't believe I can,
Trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Chilly wind you're piercing like a dagger,

Loveless

Prologue
When the war of the beasts brings about the world's end
The goddess descends from the sky
Wings of light and dark spread afar
She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting

Well, the key to my survival
Was never in much doubt
The question was how I could keep sane
Trying to find a way out

Things were never easy for me
Peace of mind was hard to find
And I needed a place where I could hide

(Mike Rutherford)

I'm one of many, I speak for the rest but I don't understand
Tonight tonight, oh tonight, tonight
He brings another day another night, another fight
Well there's another day done and there's another gone by
He's a man of our times a man of our times
Tonight tonight, oh he's burning bright

(Phil Collins)

See the lonely man there on the corner,
What he's waiting for, I don't know,
But he waits everyday now.
He's just waiting for something to show.

And nobody knows him,

Many too many have stood where I stand
Many more will stand here too
I think what I find strange is the way you built me up
Then knocked me down again

The part was fun but now it's over
Why can't I just leave the stage?
Maybe that's because you securely locked me up

There is never a time to say
Cause it seems to me we've lost our way
So we carry on, down the road
And we live our lives haunted by
All the things we say and do
Keep on missing, when I'm alone with you

No there's never a time to change

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)

Talk to me, you never talk to me.
Ooh, it seems that I can speak.
But I can hear my voice shouting out.
But there's no reply at all.
Look at me, you never look at me,
Ooh, I've been sitting, staring, seems so long.

Шедевр и не спорить

Well the key to my survival
was never in much doubt
the question was how I could keep sane
trying to find a way out

Things were never easy for me

The key to my survival
was never in much doubt
the question was how I could keep sane
trying to find a way out

things were never easy for me
peace of mind was hard to fin
and I needed a place where I could hide

A little piece of something
Falling gently down down down
No one understands you like I do

I'd rather be beside you
Everything we know so well
Tell me what you feel now
Show me what you think of it

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)
Released as B-side of "I Can't Dance" single, 1991.

Well there's a place where two worlds collide
The pile of stone against the pull of the tide
You can stay with your feet on the ground
Or step into the water, leave the dry behind

Mister you've been caught at last chasing dogs in moonlight
This man committed a sin
This man he never can win

And it's all gone wrong
Night is the time for chasing the one eyed hound
And it's all been tried before
Night is the time for chasing the one eyed hound

Fifty thousand men were sent to do the will of one.
His claim was phrased quite simply, though he never voiced it loud,
I am he, the chosen one.

In his name they could slaughter, for his name they could die.
Though many there were believed in him, still more were sure he lied,
But they'll fight the battle on.

I see your smiling face, by the open door
There's the morning light
Shining in your hair, and in your eyes

And just a little way behind that smile of yours
I see another one, oh so far away
If only for one second, I could hold you close to me
When the Master calls for me again

Oh Papa he said you must turn the lights down low
Oh Papa he said that way no one will ever know
And Papa he said what kind of trouble are you in?


Well Papa he said you must go down on your knees
Oh Papa he said you must do what it takes to please
Papa he said if you've done everything I've told you to

(Tony Banks\/Phil Collins\/Mike Rutherford) 1981

Paperlate paperlate
Paperlate paperlate

Paperlate, oh I'm sorry but there is no one on the line
Paperlate, oh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)
Released on "Spot The Pigeon E.P.", 1977.

Who put fifty tons of shit on the Foreign Office roof?
Who suffers from nine known diseases?
Who gets up in the morning when the sun comes up
And makes their beds, paper clips, bus tickets
All around their heads?

(Phil Collins)

Ooh please don't ask me how I feel, I feel fine
Oh I cry a bit, I don't sleep too good, but I'm fine
When can I see you?
When can I touch you?
Again and again I ask myself was I wrong?
Oh but time's a healer, and heaven knows I've been strong

Ooh please dont ask me how I feel, I feel fine
Oh I cry a bit, I dont sleep too good, but Im fine
When can I see you?
When can I touch you?

Again and again I ask myself was I wrong?
Oh but times a healer, and heaven knows Ive been strong
Maybe we could try

Struggling down the slope,
There's not much hope.
I begin to try to ride the scree,
But the rocks are tumbling all around me.

If I want John alive,
I've got to ditch my fear-take a dive,
While I've still got my drive to survive.

Bluegirls come in every size
Some are wise and some otherwise,
They got pretty blue eyes.
For an hour a man may change
For an hour her face looks strange -
Looks strange, looks strange.

Marching to the promised land

The streets were deserted though the police were alerted,
They considered the phone call a hoax.
Furtively glancing then jauntily prancing
The youth caught the guards unaware.

Slipping between them he ought to have seen then
The eyes and their owner so near.
With torch shining bright he strode on in the night

Get up in the starting blocks to run the race
Gotta get it when the starter's cocked - run to place
First spot light it up - gunning from the lace
Cuz if I'm in front, that means that I'm the one to chase
You'd think I'm doing wind sprints the way I rap bars
Stashed in my memory bank like flashcards
Shattering the records like we step in glass shards
Passing mics like batons - this is Trackstarz

Say it's alright, Joe,
I need another drink
To blow on the glass, so I know I'm alive.
Play me a song, Joe,
To fill the hours 'till morning
Then never again will I bother you.
Ooh, build myself a tower,
No way in, no way out

(Phil Collins/Tony Banks)

Little Nemo rubbed his eyes and got out of bed
Trying hard to piece together a broken dream
His visions lifelike and full of imagination
It's strange to think they come from such a tiny head

Dragons breathing fire, but friendly

(Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford)

Images of sorrow, pictures of delight
things that go to make up a life
endless days of summer longer nights of gloom
just waiting for the morning light
scenes of unimportance like photos in a frame
things that go to make up a life

Disc 1
01. Studio Improvisation #1
02. Studio Improvisation #2
03. The Battle Of Epping Forest [instrumental take #1]
04. The Battle Of Epping Forest [instrumental take #2]
05. The Battle Of Epping Forest [session take #1]
06. The Battle Of Epping Forest [session take #2]
07. The Battle Of Epping Forest [session take #3]

I heard the old man tell his tale:

Tinker, alone within a storm,
And losing hope he clears the leaves beneath a tree,
Seven stones
Lay on the ground.
Within the seventh house a friend was found.
And the changes of no consequence will pick up the reins from nowhere.

Dark nights, the planets are set
Creator prepares for the dawn of man
You're waking up, the day of incarnation
Said your waking up to life
Images he made to love
Images of gods in flesh
Man is wonderful, very wonderful, look at him
Beware the future

I'm a million miles from anywhere, where can I be
Somewhere out on the ocean
Just take a look out on the horizon, what can you see
There's nothing there for me


I feel shipwrecked, I might as well be shipwrecked
I'm helpless and alone drifting out to sea

Well I heard you sold them America
You said it was built to last
Price is right, the time is now
You said it was going fast

Well I've got my beliefs
And I don't agree with a single word you say
A convincing smile, a twist of truth

It seems in a moment, your whole world can shatter
Like morning dreams they just disappear
Like dust in your hand falling to the floor
How can life ever be the same

Cos my heart is broken in pieces
Yes my heart is broken in pieces
Since youve been gone

To Thomas S. Eiselberg, a very rich man, who was wise enough to spend all his fortunes in burying himself many miles beneath the ground. As the only surviving member of the human race, he inherited the whole world.

Here today the red sky tells his tale,
but the only listening eyes are mine
There is peace amongst the hills,
and the night will cover all my pride.
Blest are they who smile from bodies free,
seems to me like any other crowd

УЖИН ГОТОВ(1)

(На концертах Гэбриэл часто произносит вступительное слово. вроде:
«Старый Майк, проходит мимо зоомагазина – который всегда закрыт – в парк – который открыт всегда – в парке всегда чистая гладкая зелёная трава. Итак, Майк снимает всю одежду и начинает кататься по траве. И он напевает мотив… Типа этого…»
«Коллинз, притворяясь, что не слышал, говорит: «Извините, я не обратил внимание, о чём тут говорили…» и начинает настукивать по тарелочке. Гэбриэл тут же импровизирует голосом что-то типа «Бом тидли БАМ тудли думбин туду» или что-то в этом роде»
И продолжает: « Под землёй, грязные коричнево извивающиеся черви, воспринимают стук сверху, как стук дождя. Дождь означает для них две вещи: Спаривание и купание. И то и другое будоражит всю колонию червей моментально. И, через какие-то секунды, вся поверхность парка наполняется массой грязных, коричневых, извивающихся форм. Старый Майк по-прежнему рад, и он начинает насвистывать мелодию сам себе. Это звучит так:»
Здесь Фил Коллинз опять стучит по тарелочкам, а Питер Гэбриэл насвистывает известный гимн «Иерусалим» (см.)
«Иерусалим « для нас лишь буги, может быть, но для птиц это означает: «УЖИН ГОТОВ!»

Walking across the sitting-room, I turn the television off.
Sitting beside you, I look into your eyes.
As the sound of motor cars fades in the night time,
I swear I saw your face change, it didn't seem quite right.
...And it's hello babe with your guardian eyes so blue
Hey my baby don't you know our love is true.

Coming closer with our eyes, a distance falls around our bodies.

Mothers crying in the street
Children dying at their feet, tell me why, ooh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There's too much food but there's none to spare,
Tell me why, oh tell me why

Can you see that shaft of sunlight
can you see it in my eyes

Just as I thought it was goin' alright
I found out I'm wrong, when I thought I was right
It's always the same, it's just a shame, that's all
I could say day and you'd say night
Tell it's black when I know that it's white
Always the same, it's just a shame and that's all

I could leave but I won't go

Just as I thought it was going alright
I find out I'm wrong, when I thought I was right
s'always the same, it's just a shame, that's all
I could say day, and you'd say night
tell me it's black when I know that it's white
always the same, it's just a shame, that's all

I could leave but I won't go

Along the forest road, there’s hundreds of cars - luxury cars
Each has got it’s load of convertible bars, cutlery cars - superscars!
For today is the day when they sort it out, sort it out,
’cos they disagree on a gangland boundary
They disagree on a gangland boundary

There’s willy wright and his boys -
One helluva noise, that’s billy’s boys!

There is lambswool under my naked feet.
The wool is soft and warm,
- gives off some kind of heat.
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed.
Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.
The fleas cling to the golden fleece,
Hoping they'll find peace.
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid.

At the top of the stairs, their's hundreds of people,
Running around to all the doors.
They try to find themselves an audience;
Their deductions need applause.

The rich man stands in front of me,
The poor man behind my back.
They believe they can control the game,

The arrival

Leaving by the same door from which he had come in, he finds some sort of freaks ghetto on the other side. when they catch sight of him, the entire street of distorted figures burst into laughte
E of the colony approaches him.

Rael:

I wandered lonely as a cloud,

In Concert, March 02, 1972
BBC Paris Studios, London (Pre-FM)
2.01 The Fountain Of Salmacis*
2.02 The Musical Box*
2.03 The Return Of The Giant Hogweed*

Top Gear, Sept. 25, 1972
Kensington House, Shepherd's Bush, London

(Tony Banks)
Released as B-side of "Many Too Many" single, 1978.

When they went to bed that night no-one would have believed
That in the morning light would not be there
The dark hung heavy on the air like the grip of a jealous man
No place was there known to have been spared
Then panic took control of minds as fear hit everyone

There has always been a dividing line
But you choose, you choose, yes you choose not to see it
And then you wonder why you fall
It cuts through the heart of every city
If you climb to the top of the highest building
You can see where it falls 'cause the streetlights stop
The colours start to change
You hear a voice inside you

From a dense forest of tall, dark, pinewood,
Mount Ida rises like an island.
Within a hidden cave, nymphs had kept a child;
Hermaphroditus, son of gods, so afraid of their love.

As the dawn creeps up the sky
The hunter caught sight of a doe.
In desire for conquest,

"The last great adventure left to mankind"
-Screams a drooping lady
Offering her dreamdolls at less than extortionate prices,
And as the notes and coins are taken out
I'm taken in, to the factory floor.

For the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
-All ready to use

Tell me my life is about to begin
Tell me that I am a hero
Promise me all of your violent dreams
Light up your body with anger
Now, in this ugly world
It is time to destroy all this evil
Now, when I give a word
Get ready to fight for your freedom

(Tony Banks)

The man steps out in the moonlight
At the sound of a scream from below.
He thinks he is a warrior
So he picks up his sword and goes.

From the mouth of the monster

And the lamb lies down on Broadway.

Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.
The Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their fun.
Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show,
It's the same old ending-time to go.

Rael touches his face to confirm that he is still alive. He writes Death off as an illusion, but notices a thick musky scent hanging in the air. He moves to the corner where the scent is stronger, discovering a crack in the rubble through which it is entering. He tries to shift the stones and eventually clears a hole large enough to crawl out of. The perfume is even stronger on the other side and he sets off to find its source, with a new-found energy.

The scent grows richer, he knows he must be near,
He finds a long passageway lit by chandelier.
Each step he takes, the perfumes change
From familiar fragrance to flavours strange.
A magnificent chamber meets his eye.

Old Medley
(Dance On A Volcano / The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway / The Musical Box / Firth Of Fifth / I Know What I Like / Thats All / Illegal Alien / Follow You, Follow Me)

Holy mother of God
You've got to go faster than that to get to the top
Dirty old mountain all covered in smoke
She can turn you to stone so you better start doing it right
Yes, you better start doing it right

Turn and run
Nothing can stop them
Around every river and canal their
Power is growing
Stamp them out
We must destroy them
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour
They are invincible

Need I say I love you
need I say I care

Need I say that emotion's something we don't share?
I don't want to be sitting here
trying to deceive you

'Cause you know I know

A carved oak table,
Tells a tale
Of times when kings and queens sipped wine from goblets gold,
And the brave would lead their ladies from out of the room
To arbours cool.

A time of valour,
And legends born

I'm coming down, coming down like a monkey, but it's alright
Like a load on your back that you can't see, ooh but it's alright
Try to shake it loose, cut it free, just let it go, get it away from me.

Cos tonight, tonight, tonight - oh, I'm gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh.

I'm going down, going down, like a monkey, ooh but it's alright

All I need is a TV show, that and the radio
Down on my luck again, down on my luck again
I can show you I can show you some of the people in my life
I can show you I can show you some of the people in my life
It's driving me mad just another way of passing the day
I, I get so lonely when she's not there
I...

A day of uncertain weather,
Captured in a frame forever,
A face in a faded photograph

He must have had a life,
Maybe with a family,
People who meant everything to him

(Tony Banks)

The curtains are drawn
Now the fire warms the room.
Meanwhile outside
Wind from the north-east chills the air,
It will soon be snowing out there.

She packed her bags and dressed
Long before the sunrise
No one knew
She told them many times
About how she would teach them
And now it’s time
Standing quietly by the door
Her face is numb with fear

Watcher of the skies, watcher of all
His is a world alone, no world is his own
He whom life can no longer surprise
Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown

Creatures shaped this planet's soil
Now their reign has come to end
Has life again destroyed life, do they play elsewhere

We're waiting for you
Come and join us now
We need you with us
Come and join us now

Look inside your mind
See the darkness is creeping out
I can see in the softness there

Thin hung the web like a trap in a cage,
The fox lay asleep in his lair.
Fang's frantic paws told the tale of his sin,
Far off the chase shrieked revenge.
Outcast he trespassed where no wolf may tread,
The last sacred haunt of the dead.
He learnt of a truth which only one wolf may know,
The sceptre and crown of a king.

Go far enough and you will reach,
A place where the sea runs underneath.
We'll see our shadow, high in the sky,
Dying away in the night.

I've sailed the world for seven years,
And left all I love behind in tears.
Oh, won't you come here, wherever you are,