Plays Live de Peter Gabriel

Listado de Canciones

Disco 1

1. The Rhythm Of The Heat

   Letra

   Looking out the window I see the red dust clear High upon the red rock Stands the shadow with the spear The land here is strong Strong beneath my feet it feeds on the blood it feeds on the heat The rhythm is below me The rhythm of the heat The rhythm is around me The rhythm has control The rhythm is inside me The rhythm has my soul The rhythm of the heat The rhythm of the heat The rhythm of the heat The rhythm of the heat Drawn across the plainland To the place that is higher Drawn into the circle That dances round the fire We spit into our hands And breathe across the palms Raising them up high Help open to the sun Self-conscious, uncertain I'm showered with the dust The spirit enters into me And I submit to trust Smash the radio No outside voices here Smash the watch Cannot tear the day to shreds Smash the camera Cannot steal away the spirits The rhythm is around me The rhythm has control The rhythm is inside me The rhythm has my soul
2. I Have The Touch

   Letra

   The time I like is the rush hour, cos I like the rush The pushing of the people - I like it all so much Such a mass of motion - do not know where it goes I move with the movement and ... I have the touch I'm waiting for ignition, I'm looking for a spark Any chance collision and I light up in the dark There you stand before me, all that fur and all that hair Oh, do I dare ... I have the touch Wanting contact I'm wanting contact I'm wanting contact with you Shake those hands, shake those hands Give me the thing I understand Shake those hands, shake those hands Shake those hands, shake those hands Any social occasion, it's hello, how do you do All those introductions, I never miss my cue So before a question, so before a doubt My hand moves out and ... I have the touch Wanting contact I'm wanting contact I'm wanting contact with you Shake those hands, shake those hands Give me the thing I understand Shake those hands, shake those hands Pull my chin, stroke my hair, scratch my nose, hug my knees Try drink, food, cigarette, tension will not ease I tap my fingers, fold my arms, breathe in deep, cross my legs Shrug my shoulders, stretch my back - but nothing seems to please I need contact I need contact Nothing seems to please I need contact
3. Not One Of Us

   Letra

   It's only water In a stranger's tear Looks are deceptive But distinctions are clear A foreign body And a foreign mind Never welcome In the land of the blind You may look like we do Talk like we do But you know how it is You're not one of us Not one of us No you're not one of us Not one of us Not one of us No you're not one of us There's safety in numbers When you learn to divide How can we be in If there is no outside All shades of opinion Feed an open mind But your values are twisted Let us help you unwind You may look like we do Talk like we do -But you know how it is You're not one of us Not one of us No you're not one of us
4. Family Snapshot

   Letra

   The streets are lined with camera crews Everywhere he goes is news Today is different Today is not the same Today I make the action Take snapshot into the light, snapshot into the light I'm shooting into the light Four miles down the cavalcade moves on Driving into the sun If I worked it out right They won't see me or the gun Two miles to go, they're clearing the road The cheering has really begun I've got my radio I can hear what's going on I've been waiting for this I have been waiting for this All you people in TV land I will wake up your empty shells Peak-time viewing blown in a flash As I burn into your memory cells 'Cos I'm alive They're coming 'round the corner with the bikers at the front I'm wiping the sweat from my eyes -It's a matter of time -It's a matter of will And the governor's car is not far behind He's not the one I've got in mind 'Cos there he is-the man of the hour, standing in the limousine "I don't really hate you -I don't care what you do We were made for each other -Me and you I want to be somebody -You were like that too If you don't get given you learn to take And I will take you." Holding my breath Release the catch And I let the bullet fly All turned quiet-I have been here before Lonely boy hiding behind the front door Friends have all gone home There's my toy gun on the floor Come back Mum and Dad You're growing apart You know that I'm growing up sad I need some attention I shoot into the light
5. D.I.Y.

   Letra

   D.I.Y., D.I.Y., D.I.Y., D.I.Y. Don't tell me what I will do, 'cos I won't. Don't tell me to believe in you, 'cos I don't. Be on your guard, better hostile and hard, don't risk affection; Like flesh to the bone in the no-go zone, You're still looking for the Resurrection. Come up to me with your "What did you say?" And I'll tell you, straight in the eye: D.I.Y., D.I.Y., [etc.] Everyone wants to be what he not, what he not. Nobody happy with what he got, what he got. You function like a dummy with a new ventriloquist, Do you say nothing yourself? Hanging like a thriller on the final twist, Is it true you're getting stuck on the shelf? Come up to me with your "What did you say?" And I'll tell you, straight in the eye: D.I.Y., D.I.Y., [etc.] When things get so big, I don't trust them at all, You want some control, you've got to keep it small. D.I.Y., D.I.Y., [etc.]
6. The Family And The Fishing Net

   Letra

   Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams Her honey belly pulls the seams Curves are still upon the hinge Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night The sponge is full, well out of sight All around the conversations Icing on the warm flesh cake Light creeps through her secret tunnels Sucked into the open spaces Burning out in sudden flashes Draining blood from well-fed faces Desires form in subtle whispers Flex the muscles in denial Up and down its pristine cage So the music, so the trial Vows of sacrifice, headless chickens Dance in circles, they the blessed Man and wife, undressed by all Their grafted trunks in heat possessed Even as the soft skins tingle They mingle with the homeless mother Who loves the day but lives another That once was hers The worried father, long lost lover Brushes ashes with his broom Rehearses jokes to fly and hover Bursting over the bride and groom And the talk goes on Memories crash on tireless waves The lifeguards whom the winter saves Silence falls the guillotine All the doors are shut Nervous hands grip tight the knife In the darkness, till the cake is cut Passed around, in little pieces The body and the flesh The family and the fishing-net And another in the mesh The body and the flesh
7. Intruder

   Letra

   I know something about opening windows and doors I know how to move quietly to creep across creaky wooden floors I know where to find precious things in all your cupboards and drawers Slipping the clippers Slipping the clippers through the telephone wires The sense of isolation inspires Inspires me I like to feel the suspense when I'm certain you know I am there I like you lying awake, your bated breath charging the air I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear Intruders happy in the dark Intruder come Intruder come and leave his mark, leave his mark
8. I Go Swimming

Disco 2

1. San Jacinto

   Letra

   Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - rub on skin Outside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sun Red paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has begun Something moving in - I taste it in my mouth and in my heart It feels like dying - slow - letting go of life Medicine man lead me up through town - Indian ground - so far down Cut up land - each house - a pool - kids wearing water wings - drink in cool Follow dry river bed - watch Scout and Guides make pow-wow signs Past Geronimo's disco - Sit 'n' Bull steakhouse - white men dream A rattle in the old man's sack - look at mountain top - keep climbing up Way above us the desert snow - white wind blow I hold the line - the line of strength that pulls me through the fear San Jacinto - I hold the line San Jacinto - the poison bite and darkness take my sight - I hold the line And the tears roll down my swollen cheek - think I'm losing it - getting weaker I hold the line - I hold the line San Jacinto - yellow eagle flies down from the sun - from the sun We will walk - on the land We will breathe - of the air We will drink - from the stream We will live - hold the line
2. Solsbury Hill

   Letra

   Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve Had to listen had no choice I did not believe the information (I) just had to trust imagination My heart going boom boom boom "Son," he said "Grab your things, I've come to take you home." To keep in silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Tho' my life was in a rut "Till I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut I was feeling part of the scenery I walked right out of the machinery My heart going boom boom boom "Hey" he said "Grab your things I've come to take you home." (Back home.) When illusion spin her net I'm never where I want to be And liberty she pirouette When I think that I am free Watched by empty silhouettes Who close their eyes but still can see No one taught them etiquette I will show another me Today I don't need a replacement I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant My heart going boom boom boom "Hey" I said "You can keep my things, they've come to take me home."
3. No Self Control
4. I Don't Remember
5. Shock The Monkey

   Letra

   Cover me when I run Cover me through the fire Something knocked me out ' the trees Now I'm on my knees Cover me, darling please Monkey, monkey, monkey Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey Fox the fox Rat on the rat You can ape the ape I know about that There is one thing you must be sure of I can't take any more Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey Monkey, monkey, monkey Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey Shock the monkey Monkey, Wheels keep turning Monkey, Something's burning Monkey, Don't like it but I guess I'm learning Shock! Shock! Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey Monkey, Wheels keep turning Monkey, Something's burning Monkey, Don't like it but I guess I'm learning Shock! Shock! Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey Monkey, Too much at stake Monkey, Ground beneath me shake Monkey, And the news is breaking Shock! Shock! Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey Shock the monkey, shock the monkey Shock the monkey, shock the monkey Shock the monkey to life
6. Humdrum

   Letra

   I saw the man at J.F.K He took your ticket yesterday In the humdrum In the humdrum I ride tandem with a random Things don't run the way I planned them In the humdrum In the humdrum Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg? You got me cooking I'm a hard boiled egg In the humdrum Empty my mind I find it hard to cope Listen to my heart Don't need no stethoscope It seems to me that television She come to cut me a deep incision In the humdrum In the humdrum Empty my mind I find it hard to cope Listen to my heart Don't need no stethoscope Out of woman comes the man Spend the rest of his life getting back where he can As a bow, so a dove As below, so above From the black hole Come the tadpole With the dark soul In coal she burn, she burn As I drove into the sun Didn't dare look where I had begun Lost among echoes of things not there Watching the sound forming shapes in the air From the white star Came the bright scar Our amobea My little liebe schoen
7. On The Air

   Letra

   Built in the belly of junk by the river, my cabin stands; Made from the trash I dug off the heap with my own bare hands. Every night I'm back at the shack, I'm sure no one is there, I'm putting the aerial up, so I can go out on the air... On the air On the air On the air Every morning I'm out at dawn with the dwarfs and tramps For a silent communion lit from above by the sodium lamps. Everyone I meet on the street acts as if I wasn't there, But they're all going to know who I am, 'cos I can go out on the air. [Chorus] (On the air...) Leaving the car down the leafy lane, Turning out Tarzan for my Jungle Jane. Anyone at all, from Captain Zero And his band of superheroes standing by on call. Oh it's not easy, No it's not easy making real friends... Don't give me your steak-reared milkboys, milkboys, Half alive on empty white noise, white noise, I've got power, I'm proud to be loud, my signal goes out clear, I want everybody to know that Mozo is here! [Chorus]
8. Biko

   Letra

   September '77 Port Elizabeth weather fine It was business as usual In police room 619 Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead When I try to sleep at night I can only dream in red The outside world is black and white With only one colour dead Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead You can blow out a candle But you can't blow out a fire Once the flames begin to catch The wind will blow it higher Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead And the eyes of the world are watching now watching now