The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Genesis

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

In the Rapids

He dives down into the cold water. At first he is thrown onto the rocks, and pulled under the water by a fast moving channel, which takes him right past John, down river.
Moving down the water
John is drifting out of sight,
Its only at the turning point
That you find out how you fight.
In the cold, feel the cold
all around


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#1 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (04:55)· #2 Fly on a Windshield (02:47)· #3 Broadway Melody of 1974 (01:58)· #4 Cuckoo Cocoon (02:14)· #5 In the Cage (08:15)· #6 The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging (02:45)· #7 Back in N.Y.C. (05:49)· #8 Hairless Heart (02:25)· #9 Counting out Time (03:45)· #10 The Carpet Crawlers (05:16)· #11 The Chamber of 32 Doors (05:40)· #12 Lilywhite Lilith (02:40)·	#13 The Waiting Room (05:28)· #14 Anyway (03:18)· #15 The Supernatural Anaesthetist (02:50) #16 The Lamia (06:57)· #17 Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats (03:06)· #18 The Colony of Slippermen: The Arrival/A Visit to the Doktor/The (08:14) #19 Ravine (02:05)· #20 The Light Dies Down on Broadway (03:32)· #21 Riding the Scree (03:56)· #22 In the Rapids (02:24)· #23 It (04:58)·



Review Given all the overt literary references of Selling England by the Pound, along with their taste for epic suites such as "Supper's Ready," it was only a matter of time before Genesis attempted a full-fledged concept album, and 1974's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was a massive rock opera: the winding,... read more