Architexture: The Art & Politics of the Human Spirit

The grey of evening fills the room There's no need to look outside To see or feel the rain And I reach across to touch her But I know that she's not there Rain keeps running down the window pane Time is running out for me Can't you see what you are doing to me? Can't you see what you have done? As I try to pass another long and sleepless night A hundred crazy voices call my name As I try to pass them by I almost can believe that she is here In the glow of the night Do you know what you have done? Do you know what you've begun? Do you see we shall never be together again? All of my life For the fonely people, empty rooms And all the pointless violence, silent tombs Could it be that we shall be together again? Sheets of double glazing help to keep outside the night Only foreign city sirens can cut through Nylon sheets and blankets help to minimize the cold But they can't keep out the chilling sounds Will the nightmare soon give way to dreaming That she is here wit

  Wow, on the verge of tears listening to later Genesis. With the confirmation on his new album that Peter Gabriel definitely is Illuminati (I'll cover this in a future post), it adds a whole new context to his rivalry with his former bandmates. Peter Gabriel struggled in the early 80s with 3 albums that influenced all of rock and pop because of their influence on Genesis, but they did nothing commercially. It was so bad that he was deep in debt and forced to do a one-time reunion concert with Genesis in the early 80s. But Genesis were probably 10x bigger without Gabriel. They dropped all the occult/religious/conspiracy theory lyrics Gabriel brought and actually made music promoting and condoning the NWO. They were the biggest band of the 80s while Gabriel floundered. Then Gabriel comes back in the late 80s with a totally different style, dropping all the darkness and conspiracy stuff as this happy guy in a suit singing white RnB and pop - basically what Phil Collins had been doing

This might be Genesis' masterpiece. Even better than "Supper's Ready". Its so brilliantly symbolic and works on multiple levels. 1. The surface of the lyrics is about a guy calling up someone and getting no answer. Then he goes to their house and knocks on the door (which becomes part of the drumming - AMAZING) and gets no answer. Then he flips out and realizes he needs to give up the relationship. The first lyrics: I'm coming down, coming down like a monkey But it's alright Like a load on your back that you can't see Ooh, but it's alright Try to shake it loose, cut it free, just let it go Just get it away from me, oh 'Cause tonight, tonight, tonight, oh I'm gonna make it right Tonight, tonight, tonight, oh The average listener will think this is about a cocaine addict and the story is about trying to find their drug dealer. The term "monkey on my back" = a drug addiction. 2. But calling himself a "monkey" also, obviously