Genesis - Seconds Out lyrics
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Seconds Out lyrics

Seconds Out
Artist/Band: 
Genesis
Album release date: 
1977.10
Album producers: 
David Hentschel, Genesis
Album guest musicians: 
Chester Thompson - Pearl Drums and Percussion Bill Bruford - Ludwig and Hayman Drums and Percussion (Cinema Show)
Album description: 
All Drums Chester except: Robbery, Assault and Battery - keyboard solo Phil Firth of Fifth - Phil & Chester The Musical Box - Chester & Phil Supper's Ready - Apocalypse 9/8 Chester & Phil Cinema Show- Bill Bruford, Phil keyboard solo Los Endos- Phil & Chester
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Squonk (Banks, Rutherford) lyrics

Like father like son
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,
A-tumbling and a-bumbling he will go.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Could never put a smile on that face.

He's a sly one, he's a shy one
Wouldn't you be too.
Scared to be left all on his own.

Robbery, Assault and Battery (Banks, Collins) lyrics

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
Till he came to the room with the safe.

Afterglow (Banks) lyrics

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 miss you more.

Than the sun reflecting off my pillow,
Bringing the warmth of new life.

Firth of Fifth (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) lyrics

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 they've seen the way to leave.

He rides majestic
Past homes of men
Who care not or gaze with joy,
To see reflected there
The trees, the sky, the lily fair,
The scene of death is lying just below.

The mountain cuts off the town from view,

The Musical Box (Closing Section) (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) lyrics

While Henry Hamilton-Smythe minor (8) was playing croquet with Cynthia Jane De Blaise-William (9), sweet-smiling Cynthia raised her mallet high and gracefully removed Henry's head. Two weeks later, in Henry's nursery, she discovered his treasured musical box. Eagerly she opened it and as Old King Cole began to play, a small spirit- figure appeared.

Supper's Ready (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) lyrics

Lovers' Leap

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.

The Cinema Show (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) lyrics

He climbs inside the looking glass
And points at everything he hates
He calls to you hey look out son
That's a gun they're pointing at your pretty face

And the heads they are rolling
For the conqueror is on his way
And the justice day is coming
For the conqueror is on his way

Five hundred little women are calling at their hero's door
Yes their hero's working overtime

Dance on a Volcano (Banks, Collins, Hackett, Rutherford) lyrics

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
better start doing it right.

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.

Los Endos (Banks, Collins, Hackett, Rutherford) lyrics

There's an angel standing in the sun.

There's an angel standing in the sun,
Free to get back home.

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