Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, album cover

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Genesis

Label: Atco
Release: October 30, 1974
Rating: 5.0/5
Album time: 95:17

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Track #1 | Time: 04:55 | Composer: Banks, Collins, Gabriel ... | Report | Print | Up^

Keep your fingers out of my eye.
While I write I like to glance at the butterflies in glass that are all around the walls. The people in memory are pinned to events I can't recall too well, but I'm putting one down to watch him break up, decompose and feed another sort of life. The one in question is all fully biodegradable material and categorised as 'Rael'. Rael hates me, I like Rael, - yes, even ostriches have feelings, but our relationship is something both of us are learning to live with. Rael likes a good time, I like a good rhyme, but you won't see me directly anymore - he hates my being around. So if his story doesn't stand, I might lend a hand, you understand? (ie. the rhyme is planned, dummies).
The flickering needle jumps into red. New York crawls out of its bed.
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
Early morning Manhattan,
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The Waiting Room

Track #13 | Time: 05:28 | Composer: Banks, Collins, Gabriel ... | Report | Print | Up^

It's Instrumental!
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Riding the Scree

Track #21 | Time: 03:56 | Composer: Banks, Collins, Gabriel ... | Report | Print | Up^

He rushes to the cliff and scrambles down the rocks. It takes him a long time to get down to the water, trying to keep up with the current at the same time. As he nears the water's edge he sees John losing strength.
Struggling down the slope,
There's not much hope.
I begin to try to ride the scree
but the rocks are tumbling all around me.
If I want John alive,
I've got to ditch my fear - take a dive
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