Genesis Lyrics

    ------ About the song Deep In The Motherlode performed by Genesis

I have been a fan of Genesis since the Peter Gabriel days and they are still the best "Story Rock" band ever. Each musician is a special talent that blends into a musical and lyrical odyssey.
My personal favorite is "Robbery, Assault and Battery" but all are uniquely brilliant. "And then there were three" after Steve Hackett, was at first listening, an extreme disapointment! I picked it up as a CD about 12 years ago and I am happy to say it has joined the rest in terms of excellence.
That may be the best way to describe Genesis..."Excellence" and still the best Storytelling Progressive Rock Band these ears have ever heard! Thank-You Genesis for many years of listening pleasure. Andrew Walker

    ------ About the song Invisible Touch performed by Genesis

I have been discovering how far the illuminati and Satanism go in music and with knowledge if you analyse these lyrics it seems far more plausible that he is singing about satan than a woman. There is plenty of evidence if you look at the work by Genesis, it points to the band being heavily influenced by this darkness which is killing us and our world. I do believe though that we can get clues and help to understand what we are facing and the truth kept from us if we analyse song lyrics. Some songs by Phil Collins like "dance into the light" seem to tell me that the light is going to triumph over darkness "take me home" and "another day in paradise" also suggests this too. Type "Phil Collins illuminate" into YouTube to find videos about this. Peace and Love to All.

    ------ About the song Squonk performed by Genesis

According to an interview with the band, that I watched years and years ago, Peter left nearly without warning. He passed them on the street, just outside the studio. He jogged passed them saying something like, "Hey guys, I quit the band. Bye!" According to Phil Collins' account, he and the others were rather stunned. By the description of this event, it sounded like a situation where the band had to recover from it rather than one in which they had asked him to leave, so they could go about their business. Back then, it seemed, very few people even noticed the transition, in part, because Collins' and Gabriel's voices were so similar. Clearly, though, Collins had a better stage presence and connection with the audience. It's very true, though, that without Gabriel and Hacket, as well, the music and vision changed quite significantly. Genesis with Gabriel, was deeply spiritual. (obviously, with a biblical name like that) When "Then There Were Three" came out, it was very frustrating to listen to new fans talk of the band, not knowing what Genesis was like before that album. There had been so much more to the band than that album reflected. "Duke" seemed to revive some of that earlier richness and ethic.

I first saw them during their "Trick of the Tail Tour," in Dec '77 - my first concert, ever. Too young to drive, I took money I'd saved, bought 2 tickets and offered one to an older friend to drive us, both. Genesis seemed like gods. Their presence was large and very much unlike a pop band. I was probably the youngest attendee, as no one my age, or close to it, had ever heard of them. Pure bliss.

I was rather surprised at how thin, struggling, and hungry Phil appeared to be. It was obvious he was the most junior member of the band. He and several other drummers had to try-out and he was selected. It was very clear, during the concert, that Banks and Rutherford were the quiet yet strong leaders while Phil was their front man. He worked his butt off, on stage, acting out the parts of every song he sang. Certainly, Genesis was not about him. It never seemed that way, at all. Later, as a band, they also had a unique arrangement whereby, they allowed one another to go solo with their own albums, but when it came to a Genesis concert, it was purely Genesis and Phil's solo songs or Mike's "Mike and the Mechanics" songs were noticeably omitted.

"Squonk" ...omigod, "Squonk" This concert WAS in Pennsylvania. Somewhere, long into the performance, they played the first two bars and the crowd of 20,000 went nuts, recognizing it. YOU know ...that Genesis-sounding crowd that would cheer in unison, where everyone sounded like they were saying, "Errrrrr" together. Genesis played it so powerfully that the bass rocked my body from the inside, out. I was very close to the stage and it was almost as though the music registered in your brain, not from your ears, but rather, from your core. No exaggeration.

Can you FEEL it?! I'm talking, this concert beGAN with "The Eleventh Earl of Mar" !!

One can imagine: with Genesis having been my first concert ever, my standards for what a great concert would be, were set very high, from that night, on.

....just a bit of rock history.
Thanks for reading.

-A

    ------ About the song Illegal Alien performed by Genesis

The way we treat foreigner without their paper only
Help to create hate against the United States and that
Create terrorist hate and dissatisfaction create
Terrorist we have to try our cousins from abroad a little
Bit nicer our music is heard everywhere after the cinema is
Our most important artistic import we have to try to be nicer
With other so other could be nicer to us and that song talks
ABOUT

    ------ About the song Stagnation performed by Genesis

You can here elements of the music in Stagnation in many of their later songs n listen to Stagnation and the listen closely to Cinema Show. There are also elements of it all the way through their albums to Wind and Wuthering.

    ------ About the song Your Own Special Way performed by Genesis

She always had her own special way with my hand and my heart...so sad how Steve Hackett butchers the lyrics on his Genesis Revisited album...Christy, its been 27 years since you kissed me goodbye and I still get butterflies thinking of your sweetness. I will obviously always love you my princess...

    ------ About the song Undertow performed by Genesis

After a near death experience I have been looking for motivation to re-start my life. At the gym my mp3 dosed me with Undertow and brought back my youth seeing them perform every year. I wanted to cry, but in the gym I just worked harder and came upon my next plateau. I love the sound and feel of the times when I was strong and I will be again. Tony wrote the song that truly lifted me and Phil delivered the masterpiece. I thank Genesis for my genesis.

    ------ About the song The Lamia performed by Genesis

love lamb and as this was the album right before I discovered G the other being the brilliant and my favorite trick o the tail since that really explored a lot more depth of no LSD required story telling with much much better instrumental ability.

Dance on a volcano is Tony at his best, the choirs of entangled tir best usage of choirs. For depth of transcendent prose mad man moon and entangled eclipse lamb all by them self. The squonk is allegorical genius and trick of the tail explores an interesting what if scenario while ripples goes off into perhaps Tony's best piano masterpiece that is beautifully orchestrated with vocal performances I doubt Peter could ever manage to take on and hit the notes near as well as Phil did. If anything the band took Peter's leaving as a challenge to out genesis the old pre Phil genesis and IMHO they achieved it.

    ------ About the song Follow You Follow Me performed by Genesis

A love song that reminds me of my first wife. I used to play this for her and we used to sit on the sofa listening together, cuddling each other, as if nothing would ever part us.Pity if all ended in tears . . .

    ------ About the song Duchess performed by Genesis

Yes just listening to and telling my daughter about this song I got all choked up, never imagined describing a song to someone could have such an effect. I guess that's what great lyrics do.