Álbum Shaking the Tree de Peter Gabriel - Canciones

Shaking the Tree

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  1. 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."

  2. I Don't Remember
  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Shaking The Tree
  7. Don't Give Up
  8. 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

  9. 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]

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Zaar
  16. 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

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