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 Posted: May 30 2014 at 17:21 |
i suppose so, when said like that.
hmmmmmmm ;000000
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 17:30 |
"Bored of the life on the city of gold
He'd left and let nobody know.
Gone were the towers he had known from a child,"
Looks like a reference to leaving the womb and outgrowing breastfeeding.
"They've got no horns and they've got no tail
They don't even know of our existence
Am I wrong to believe in a city of gold
That lies in the deep distance."
Sounds like he's describing disinterested women, no tail etc no horniness, 'our existence' seems to suggest he's thinking of his penis and girls not paying them attention, city of gold must be the vagina...
"Hello friend, welcome home."
Sound like at the end of the song the Tail (beast) entered a vagina, the place he resided 'on' as a child!
Edited by Matthew _Gill - May 30 2014 at 17:32
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 17:34 |
"After many days journey we came to a peak
Where the beast gazed abroad and cried out."
Sounds like climaxing!
"And wept as they led him away to a cage Beast that can talk, read the sign.
The creatures they pushed and they prodded his frame
And questioned his story again.
But soon they grew bored of their prey
Beast that can talk?
More like a freak or publicity stunt.
Oh
No."
To me this passage is about a penis' owner "the beast" getting masturbated by a woman and he ultimately fails to get fully aroused so they eventually loose interest and ridicule him.
Edited by Matthew _Gill - May 30 2014 at 17:44
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 17:49 |
Actually the songs narrator could be sperm describing his owner "the beast" as having erectile dysfunction but in the end the sperm get's ejected into a vagina.
Either way it isn't about a devil like creature and cities of gold.
Edited by Matthew _Gill - June 05 2014 at 12:15
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I knew it! The members of Genesis are Satanists.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 18:12 |
I think someone's reading too much of the wrong thing into these lyrics..... Now why don't we analyse ELP's Love Beach lyrics instead 
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I wouldn't mind dancing on a volcano if you know what I mean
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I've always thought the lyrics were the remainder of Genesis trying their very best to sound as cryptic and profound as Peter. Hell even Collins sounds like him singing.
I'm not really sure I agree with the interpretation on offer in this thread. The lyrics themselves are as elusive as your every day horoscope scribble. They could mean anything.
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 Guldbamsen wrote:
I've always thought the lyrics were the remainder of Genesis trying their very best to sound as cryptic and profound as Peter. Hell even Collins sounds like him singing.
I'm not really sure I agree with the interpretation on offer in this thread. The lyrics themselves are as elusive as your every day horoscope scribble. They could mean anything. |
Unreleased song from 'A fu*k of the Tail' - It's Yourself.
"Hoping nobody sees Feeling can be easy
Think how I feel
What will (can) you say?
What will you do?
Why can't you see?
It's yourself I love"
Seems to be more obvious masturbation references.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 18:56 |
Crikey Dance on a volcano is very salacious!
"You're halfway up and you're halfway down
And the pack on your back is turning you around.
Throw it away, you won't need it up there, and remember
You don't look back whatever you do.
Better start doing it right."
Obviously a condom his stopping him achieve full erection, he doesn't need it as the smoking? hot? woman in the song is obviously too old to conceive.
"You've got to go faster than that to get to the top.
Dirty old mountain
All covered in smoke,"
Sounds like a right mucky old bewer he's shagging, wants it fast to make her get to the destination too!
"Your friends didn't make it through. Out of the night and out of the dark
Into the fire and into the fight
Well that's the way the heroes go, Ho! Ho! Ho! "
Looks like his friends couldn't make her climax, she must be a fat smoking prostitute!!!
"Through a crack in Mother Earth,
Blazing hot, the molten rock
Spills out over the land.
And the lava's the lover who licks your boots away. Hey! Hey! Hey!
If you don't want to boil as well."
This seems too dirty to believe, he's in the crack, she's climaxed, the lava "juice" get's him excited he's trying not to "boil" and spill over. It's all a bit relax don't do it!!!
This album is mental. I've always loved it but because it was beautiful and pretty easy listening but crikey it's pretty dark now I'm scrutinising it.
Edited by Matthew _Gill - May 30 2014 at 19:04
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Yeah..................I'm still not really sold though:-P
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 19:06 |
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/1733/#comments
songmeanings.com - they don't have a clue!
It's utter filth and nothing else.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 19:07 |
Horizons wrote:
i don't see the reference to masturbation
but maybe im just not trying as hard as you to see it
i mean if relief means masturbation every time it's used
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 19:10 |
"Marching to the promised land
Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand
Pulls you down on your knees
While you're down a pool appears"
Hmm...
...I'm off to bed.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 19:21 |
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 19:23 |
I'm back I can't get enough...
"But if you don't stand up you don't stand a chance.
Go a little faster now, you might get there in time."
Ok.
"A red rag hangs from an open mouth."
Oh yes, clitoris and the vagina!
"The hunter enters the forest.
All are not huntsmen who can blow the huntsman's horn"
This dark Forrest isn't a shaven haven.
"I am a friend, I'd really like to play with you. Making noises my little furry friend would make
I'll trick him, then I'll kick him into my sack."
Here we go again.
"Walking home that night
The sack across my back"
Limp.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 19:34 |
"Not flesh nor fish nor bone
A red rag hangs from an open mouth.
Alive at both ends but a little dead in the middle"
Very risky from Genesis - Smelly Fishy vagina, that isn't really flesh, fish or bone. The opening works but she can't conceive. To be honest I think this is another song about prostitution. In this case it seems to be a song about an older prostitute maybe who can't have kids.
"His heart was broken long before he ever came to you.
Stop your tears from falling,
The trail they leave is very clear for all to see at night
All to see at night."
Clearly visiting a prostitute.
Edited by Matthew _Gill - May 30 2014 at 19:37
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Don't delay, dock the dick. Peter knew.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 20:06 |
Ripples obviously applies to the ripples of skin on a flaccid penis.
I believe the song Ripples is about a man who has ejaculated on a picture of a girl in a porn mag and he realiseshis penis is stopping working.
"The face in the water looks up And she shakes her head as if to say
That it's the last time you'll look like today
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back
Gone to the other side
Sail away, sail away"
Basically the showered face in the pic is looking at him and through his ever diminishing sex-drive he's becoming no longer sexually attracted to it, he knows his member ripples are getting more common and he wishes the problem away.
"The face that launched a thousand ships Is sinking fast, that happens you know"
Here the song makes it clear that the girl in the magazine has given him copious amounts of erections in the past. But as pointed out his desires are failing with age.
"Angels never know it's time To close the book and gracefully decline"
He's a good guy but he needs to close the John Rorno magazine and just grow old as nature intends.
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Posted: May 30 2014 at 20:09 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
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I'm Counting Out Time to hear that song again, though I do like the sound of my Musical Box for now.
I don't believe Genesis ever wrote about sex whilst Angel Gabriel was pulling the strings.
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