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Posted: June 02 2014 at 12:28
HolyMoly wrote:
All right, you lost me with "Tonight Tonight Tonight". If that song isn't about drugs then my name ain't Nathan Arizona.
Nope, sex addiction, Genesis are very clever. Sometimes when they performed live they'd change the lyrics around or tell stories just to confirm our suspicions!
"Ooh she's got a body under that shirt but the only thing she'll rub is my face in the dirt."
The Way we walk live revision is slightly more obvious than the studio verse!
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Posted: June 02 2014 at 11:19
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ I don't believe you.......
Honest, most think it's a drug related song but it's definitely not.
"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."
"We're gonna make it right Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh."
No matter how much he masturbates, trying to shake that load loose, he can't quench his sexual urges, he hopes a visit to a lady of the night will abate his insatiable desires.
Plenty of 'oh' and 'ooh's' thrown in for effect too.
Collins also explored extreme perversion in his song Thru These Walls:
"I can hear through these walls
I can hear it when they're foolin' around I can hear through these walls and I hear every sign, every sound I can hear through these walls In the dark with the shades pulled down Every word that they say Every move they make feels it's coming my way
My favorite moment putting the glass up next to the wall Imagination though I see nothing, I hear it all Putting my sign up do not disturb me, speak or shout, inside out Oh when my clothes, they're all laid out
I can see through my windows I can see the girls and the boys I can see through my windows and I can imagine the noise I can see through my windows I can see them playing with toys Oh I hope it won't end If I promise not to touch, just be a friend
Life is so lonely and I don't get high off just being me I like pretending wanting to touch them, wanting to see It's only normal creeping behind you, now don't shout, 'cause it's alright They keep the windows locked and the door shut tight
Oo I'm feeling like I'm locked in a cage no way in, no way out And it gets so lonely am I really asking a lot Just to reach out and touch somebody? 'Cause when I look through my windows or open my door I can feel it all around me
And I can hear through these walls I can hear it when they're foolin' 'round I can hear through these walls I can hear every sight, every sound I can hear through these walls In the dark with the shades pulled down And every word that they say Every noise they make feels it's coming my way
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Posted: June 02 2014 at 09:32
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Matthew _Gill wrote:
"And broke down the door of the cage and marched on out. He grabbed a creature by the scruff of his neck, pointing out: There, beyond the bounds of your weak imagination"
Obvious reference to masturbation. I bet there are many more in the album.
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Posted: June 02 2014 at 06:22
Matthew _Gill wrote:
"And broke down the door of the cage and marched on out. He grabbed a creature by the scruff of his neck, pointing out: There, beyond the bounds of your weak imagination"
Obvious reference to masturbation. I bet there are many more in the album.
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Posted: June 02 2014 at 04:48
"Listen, you know I love you, but I just can't take this, You know I love you, but I'm playing for keeps, Although I need you, I'm not gonna make this, You know I want to, but I'm in too deep."
Basically here Collins sings about a man who is making love to a woman he thinks is wanting to leave the relationship, he want's to ejaculate inside her but fears it could lead to pregnancy.
The Genesis song Tonight, Tonight is also a cleverly disguised song and it covers the topic of addiction... ...sex addiction.
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Posted: June 01 2014 at 14:51
It
The Lamb Finishes with a track called It that seemingly declares sex as the be all and end all, the meaning of life.
"When it's cold, it comes slow It is warm, just watch it grow All around me It is here, it is now
Just a little bit of it can bring you up or down Like the supper it is cooking in your hometown It is chicken, it is eggs, it is in between your legs It is walking on the moon, leaving your cocoon"
The first two lines describe a penis' reaction to temperature.
Though all this has been ascertained from the serendipity of realising an album title's trick name the salacious side of the band is explicitly obvious when you break Genesis down and get in their collective head.
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