What Is Your Favorite Peter Gabriel Song

[Parche]

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Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice
I did not believe the information
I just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom boom boom
"Son," he said, "Grab your things, I've come to take you home."
To keepin' silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
'Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey," he said, "grab your things, I've come to take you home."
When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes,but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey," I said, "You can keep my things, they've come to take me home."





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[HughBeaumont]

1. Has to be Zaar from "Passion".

As far as his mainstream stuff goes, "Red Rain" from So is my favorite.

[eyepaddle]

2. That's it right there.

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[ceile]

3. "Digging in the Dirt"

Something in me, dark and sticky
All the time it's getting strong
No way of dealing with this feeling
Can't go on like this too long

This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far,
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you


Don't talk back, just drive the car
Shut your mouth, I know what you are
Don't say nothing, keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around, this is for real

Digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
Find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt

The more I look, the more I find
As I close on in, I get so blind
I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes
I feel it in my sex, that's the place it goes

Digging in the dirt, to find the places we got hurt...

[supernova]

4. Solisbury Hill and In Your Eyes compete for my most fave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRPm7faABo

I loves me some Peter Gabriel. :loveya:

[MissMillie]

5. I like Games Without Frontiers

but I also like "In Your Eyes"

[auburngrad82]

16. I second Games Without Frontiers nt

[Redbear]

20. Third vote for jeux sans frontieres.

Dressing up in costumes
playing silly games

[TommyO]

31. Fourth for Games Without Frontiers

The fact that Kate Bush sings on it has absolutely nothing to do with my vote, or does it?

OK, it does!

[lost-in-nj]

6. I posted it before but I'll post it again

Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - run on skin
Outside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sun
Red paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has begun
Something moving in - I taste it in my mouth and in my heart
It feels like dying - slow - letting go of life

Medicine man lead me up though town - Indian ground -
so far down
Cut up land - each house - a pool - kids wearing water
wings - drink in cool
Follow dry river bed - watch Scout and Guides make
pow-wow signs
Past Geronimo's disco - Sit 'n' Bull steakhouse - white
men dream
A rattle in the old man's sack - look at mountain top -
keep climbing up
Way above us the desert snow - white wind blow

I hold the line - the line of strength that pulls me through
the fear
San Jacinto - I hold the line
San Jacinto - the poison bite and darkness take my sight -
I hold the line
And the tears roll down my swollen cheek - think I'm losing
it - getting weaker
I hold the line - I hold the line
San Jacinto - yellow eagle flies down from the sun -
from the sun

We will walk - on the land
We will breathe - of the air
We will drink - from the stream
We will live - hold the line




Actually this whole CD is awesome



OK AYATOLLAH!!!!!



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[Parche]

8. Interesting Song Mugabe

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I WIN

[lost-in-nj]

13. Why do you win?????

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I did not cry Uncle


NORIEGA



lost

[Parche]

15. Ok You are On Mao

I will win this fight
I always win
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[IndianaJones]

7. that one. nt.

[bbernardini]

9. D.I.Y. or anything from "So" (except "In Your Eyes"). I also really like "Ovo."

Sorry, I'm just sick to death of "In Your Eyes."

On our honeymoon, my wife and I went to the Millennium Dome, and picked up the soundtrack Peter Gabriel did for it ("Ovo"). A lot of people don't care for it, but my wife and I find it to be one of our favorite Gabriel albums.

[bbernardini]

10. ZOMG!!!111!!11eleven!!1!1! Genesis sucked after Peter Gabriel left!!11!!11!!1!1!!

SOMEBODY'S going to say it, so I'll do the work for them, even if I don't believe it. :)

[ThomCat]

11. Definitely Solsbury Hill

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[MilesColtrane]

12. Don't Give Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6twhsq8Qvo

[Patiod]

14. Solsbury Hill always makes me want to dance

I saw him at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia - up so close you could see what color his eyes were -- and he played that and everyone on stage was dancing.

And we have that exact picture of him up on our fridge (we have a lot of weird stuff there, though, like a postcard of civil war General Winfield Scott Hancock, one of General Sherman, and one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. You'd need to be a pretty good dancer to do anything good to Solsbury Hill

7/4 time signature: http://www.solsburyhill.org/essays/car.htm

But I do love the song.

[Patiod]

26. Sort of a grapevine step

which I wasn't surprised to see was exactly what the people on stage were doing

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Well, you're obviously a far better dancer than me

because I'd never heard of a grapevine step. I guess you mean something like this - but leaving out one of the 'tap's - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine_%28dance_move%29#Electric_Slide_and_Hustle

[Patiod]

28. Well, I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood

so to me, it's the "Hava Nagila" step. But if you know any Greeks, they do the same type of dance at weddings.

Believe me - it's SO simple -- if it were complicated, I couldn't do it!

[blogslut]

17. I love so many

But "I Have the Touch" really gets me all shuddery.

[SoxFan]

18. Biko

[kmla]

19. My favorite is "In Your Eyes", but when he did "Father, Son"

during his encore when I saw him a couple years ago and explained the story behind it (how he and his father did yoga together during his fathers last days, before he passed away), I damn near cried.



Father, son
Locked as one
In this empty room
Spine against spine
Yours against mine
Till the warmth comes through

Remember the breakwaters down by the waves
I first found my courage
Knowing daddy could save
I could hold back the tide
With my dad by my side

Dogs, plows and bows
We move through each pose
Struggling in our separate ways
Mantras and hymns
Unfolding limbs
Looking for release through the pain

And the yogi's eyes are open
Looking up above
He too is dreaming of his daddy's love
With his dad by his side
Got his dad by his side

Can you recall
How you took me to school
We couldn't talk much at all
It's been so many years
And now these tears
Guess I'm still your child

Out on the moors
We take a pause
See how far we have come
You're moving quite slow
How far can we go
Father and son

With my dad by my side
With my dad by my side
Got my dad by my side
With me

[MrScorpio]

21. Shock The Monkey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oaSZxd9jOY

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. Family Snapshot

(though that may sometime awful about my psyche - but the music is marvellous)

The streets are lined with camera crews
Everywhere he goes is news
Today is different
Today is not the same
Today I make the action
Take snapshot into the light, snapshot into the light
I'm shooting into the light

Four miles down the cavalcade moves on
Driving into the sun
If I worked it out right
They won't see me or the gun

Two miles to go, they're clearing the road
The cheering has really begun
I've got my radio
I can hear what's going on

I've been waiting for this
I have been waiting for this
All you people in TV land
I will wake up your empty shells
Peak-time viewing blown in a flash
As I burn into your memory cells
'Cos I'm alive

They're coming 'round the corner with the bikers at the front
I'm wiping the sweat from my eyes
-It's a matter of time
-It's a matter of will
And the governor's car is not far behind
He's not the one I've got in mind
'Cos there he is-the man of the hour, standing in the limousine
"I don't really hate you
-I don't care what you do
We were made for each other
-Me and you
I want to be somebody
-You were like that too
If you don't get given you learn to take
And I will take you."

Holding my breath
Release the catch
And I let the bullet fly

All turned quiet-I have been here before
Lonely boy hiding behind the front door
Friends have all gone home
There's my toy gun on the floor
Come back Mum and Dad
You're growing apart
You know that I'm growing up sad
I need some attention
I shoot into the light

[BulletproofLandshark]

24. Red Rain

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

25. That is a beautiful song.

[MorningGlow]

29. Washing of the Water

Well, pretty much everything from Us--the songs he wrote after his divorce. Like "Come Talk to Me" (trying to communicate with an angry child) and "Blood of Eden" and "Only Us". But I think "Washing of the Water" is so anguished and raw and beautiful, it's my favorite. (For nostalgia, however, I love "Solbury Hill" because I actually did climb it, and "In Your Eyes" because 'way, 'way back when a guy put it on a mix tape he made for me. :eyes:)

River, river, carry me on
Living river carry me on
River, river carry me on
To the place where I come from

So deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a ride
If I should fall, would you swallow me deep inside

River, show me how to float
I feel like I'm sinking down
Thought that I could get along
But here in this water
My feet won't touch the ground
I need something to turn myself around

Going away, away towards the sea
River deep, can you lift up and carry me
Oh roll on though the heartland
'Til the sun has left the sky
River, river carry me high
'Til the washing of the water make it all alright
Let your waters reach me like she reached me tonight

Letting go, it's so hard
The way it's hurting now
To get this love untied
So tough to stay with thing
'Cause if I follow through
I face what I denied
I get those hooks out of me
And I take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side
Kill that fear of emptiness, loneliness I hide

River, oh river, river running deep
Bring me something that will let me get to sleep
In the washing of the water will you take it all away
Bring me something to take this pain away

[redqueen]

30. God... how can I choose?

How about just every song on Security. :)

[Strawman]

32. I like I Don't Remember