| Genesis – Supper's Ready Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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One more thing from the same web site: For a more unique explanation, this annotation comes from a program from the Foxtrot or early Selling England tours: i) Lover's Leap In which two lovers are lost in each other's eyes, and found again transformed in the bodies of another male and female. ii) The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man The lovers come across a town dominated by two characters: one a benevolent farmer, and the other the head of a highly disciplined scientific religion. The latter likes to be known as "The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man" and claims to contain a secret new ingredient capable of fighting fire. This is a falsehood, an untruth, a whopper and a taradiddle, or to put it in clearer terms; a lie. iii) Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men Who the lovers see clad in grays and purples, awaiting to be summoned out of the ground. At the G.E.S.M.'s command they pour forth, from the bowels of the earth, to attack all those without an up-to-date "Eternal Life Licence" which were obtainable at the head office of the G.E.S.M.'s religion. iv) How Dare I Be So Beautiful? In which our intrepid heroes investigate the aftermath of the battle and discover a solitary figure, obsessed by his own image. They witness an unusual transmutation, and are pulled into their own reflections in the water. v) Willow Farm Climbing out of the pool, they are once again in a different existence. They're right in the middle of a myriad of bright colours, filled with all manner of objects, plants, animals and humans. Life flows freely and everything is mindlessly busy. At random, a whistle blows and every single thing is instantly changed into another. vi) Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet) At one whistle the lovers become seeds in the soil, where they recognize other seeds to be people from the world in which they had originated. While they wait for Spring, they are returned to their old world to see the Apocalypse of St. John in full progress. The seven trumpeters cause a sensation, the fox keeps throwing sixes, and Pythagoras (a Greek extra) is deliriously happy as he manages to put exactly the right amount of milk and honey on his corn flakes. vii) As Sure as Eggs is Eggs (Aching Mens' Feet) Above all else an egg is an egg. 'And did those feet ..............' making ends meet. As for Gabble Ratchet - apparently it is the sound of wild geese that heralds the arrival of archangels (or something similar). |
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| Genesis – Supper's Ready Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's always helpful to go to the source: 5.15 - What is Supper's Ready all about? Who is Gabble Ratchet? "There was one particular incident that gave me the inspiration for Supper's Ready. There was this room at the top of Jill's (his wife) parents' house. The room was the coldest part of the house. I always used to get the shivers when i went in there. It was covered in strong purple and turquoise wallpaper. Everything was bright purple and turquoise. Anyway, we had this strange evening up there which ended with Jill feeling like she'd been possessed. It was extremely frightening. I don't know how to explain it - it was as if she had had a fit, or something. I experienced a sense of evil at that point - I saw another face in her face. I don't know how much of this was going on inside my head and how much was actually happening, but it was an experience i could not forget and was the starting point for a song about the struggle between good and evil." - peter gabriel http://home.att.net/~los.endos/genesis/faq/faq.htm |
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