Álbum Shaking the Tree de Peter Gabriel - Canciones

Shaking the Tree

1990 |

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Listado de canciones del álbum Shaking the Tree

Solsbury HillVer letra

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letra de Solsbury Hill
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."
I Don't Remember
SledgehammerVer letra

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letra de Sledgehammer
You could have a steam train

If you'd just lay down your tracks

You could have an aeroplane flying

If you bring your blue sky back

All you do is call me

I'll be anything you need

You could have a big dipper

Going up and down, all around the bends

You could have a bumper car, bumping

This amusement never ends

I want to be your sledgehammer

Why don't you call my name

Oh let me be your sledgehammer

This will be my testimony

Show me round your fruitcage

'Cos I will be your honey bee

Open up your fruitcage

Where the fruit is as sweet as can be

I want to be your sledgehammer

Why don't you call my name

You'd better call the sledgehammer

Put your mind at rest

I'm going to be - the sledgehammer

This can be my testimony

I'm your sledgehammer

Let there be no doubt about it

Sledge sledge sledgehammer

I've kicked the habit

Shed my skin

This is the new stuff

I go dancing in, we go dancing in

Oh won't you show for me

And I will show for you

Show for me, I will show for you

Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you

Only you

You've been coming through

Going to build that power

Build, build up that power, hey

I've been feeding the rhythm

I've been feeding the rhythm

Going to feel that power, build in you

Come on, come on, help me do

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you

I've been feeding the rhythm

I've been feeding the rhythm

It's what we're doing, doing

All day and night
Family SnapshotVer letra

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letra de Family Snapshot
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
Mercy StreetVer letra

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letra de Mercy Street
Looking down on empty streets, all she can see

Are the dreams all made solid

Are the dreams all made real

All of the buildings, all of those cars

Were once just a dream

In somebody's head

She pictures the broken glass, she pictures the steam

She pictures a soul

With no leak at the seams

Let's take the boat out

Wait until darkness

Let's take the boat out

Wait until darkness comes

Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey

Nowhere in the suburbs

In the cold light of day

There in the midst of it so alive and alone

Words support like bone

Dreaming of mercy street

Wear your inside out

Dreaming of mercy

In your daddy's arms again

Dreaming of mercy street

'Swear they moved that sign

Dreaming of mercy

In your daddy's arms

Pulling out the papers from the drawers that slide smooth

Tugging at the darkness, word upon word

Confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box

To the priest, he's the doctor

He can handle the shocks

Dreaming of the tenderness, the tremble in the hips

Of kissing Mary's lips

Dreaming of mercy street

Wear your insides out

Dreaming of mercy

In your daddy's arms again

Dreaming of mercy street

I 'swear they moved that sign

Looking for mercy

In your daddy's arms

Mercy, mercy, looking for mercy

Mercy, mercy, looking for mercy

Anne, with her father is out in the boat

Riding the water

Riding the waves on the sea
Shaking The Tree
Don't Give Up
San JacintoVer letra

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letra de San Jacinto
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
Here Comes The FloodVer letra

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letra de Here Comes The Flood
When the night shows
the signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot
even choose a side.

I took the old track
the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
and as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
was warm and soaked the crowd.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll
use up what we used to be.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

[Repeat chorus once]
Red RainVer letra

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letra de Red Rain
red rain is coming down

red rain

red rain is pouring down

pouring down all over me

I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream

I cannot make a single sound as you scream

it can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch

this place is so quiet, sensing that storm

red rain is coming down

red rain

red rain is pouring down

pouring down all over me

well I've seen them buried in a sheltered place in this town

they tell you that this rain can sting, and look down

there is no blood around see no sign of pain

hay ay ay no pain

seeing no red at all, see no rain

red rain is coming down

red rain

red rain is pouring down

pouring down all over me

red rain

putting the pressure on much harder now

to return again and again

just let the red rain splash you

let the rain fall on your skin

I come to you defences down

with the trust of a child

red rain is coming down

red rain

red rain is pouring down

pouring down all over me

and I can't watch any more

no more denial

it's so hard to lay down in all of this

red rain is coming down

red rain is pouring down

red rain is coming down all over me

I see it

red rain is coming down

red rain is pouring down

red rain is coming down all over me

I'm bathing in it

red rain coming down

red rain is coming down

red rain is coming down all over me

I'm begging you

red rain coming down

red rain coming down

red rain coming down

red rain coming down

over me in the red red sea

over me

over me

red rain
Games Without FrontiersVer letra

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letra de Games Without Frontiers
Jeux sans frontières [3x]

Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane

Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again

Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt

Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it

Whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle

It's a knockout

[2x]

If looks could kill,

They probably will

In games without frontiers

War without tears

Games without frontiers

War without tears

Jeux sans frontières [3x]

Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching's is blue

They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu

Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games

Hiding out in tree-tops shouting out rude names

Whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside

Whistling tunes we piss on the goons in the jungle

It's a knockout

[2x]

If looks could kill,

They probably will

In games without frontiers

War without tears

Games without frontiers

War without tears

Jeux sans frontières
Shock The MonkeyVer letra

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letra de Shock The Monkey
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
I Have The TouchVer letra

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letra de I Have The Touch
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
Big TimeVer letra

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letra de Big Time
I'm on my way I'm making it, huh!

I've got to make it show yeah, hey!

So much larger than life

I'm gonna watch it growing

Hey hey hey heyyyyyyy

The place where I come from is a small town

They think so small, they use small words

But not me, I'm smarter than that,

I worked it out

I'll be stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out

I've had enough, I'm getting out

to the city, the big big city

I'll be a big noise with all the big boys, so much stuff I will own

And I will pray to a big god, as I kneel in the big church

Big time, I'm on my way I'm making it, big time, oh yes

Big time, I've got to make it show yeah, big time

Big time, so much larger than life

Big time, I'm gonna watch it growing, big time

Ho ohh ohh, oh oh, ho ohh ohh, oh ohhh

My parties have all the big names and I greet them with the widest smile

Tell them how my life is one big adventure

and always they're amazed when I show them 'round my house to my bed

I had it made like a mountain range with a snow white pillow for my big fat head

And my heaven will be a big heaven, and I will walk through the front door

Big Time, I'm on my way I'm making it, big time, Huh!

Big time, I've got to make it show yeah, big time

Big time, so much larger than life

Big time, I'm gonna watch it growing, big time

Big time, my car is getting bigger Big time, my house is getting bigger

Big time, my eyes are getting bigger

and my mouth

Big time, my belly's getting bigger

Big time, and my bank account

Big time, look at my circumstance

Big time, and the bulge in my big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big, hi there
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BikoVer letra

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letra de Biko
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