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Peter Gabriel Lyrics - "So" Trivia Quiz

This quiz is about the lyrics to Peter Gabriel's 1986 album "So". Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by asutbone. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
asutbone

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
107,508

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
12 / 15

Plays
1055

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. "When I want to run away, I drive off in my car / But whichever way I go, I come back to the place you are." Hint

In Your Eyes

Big Time

Mercy Street

This Is The Picture

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Question 2 of 15

2. "You could have a steam train / If you'd just lay down your tracks." Hint

Big Time

Don't Give Up

In Your Eyes

Sledgehammer

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Question 3 of 15

3. "I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream / I cannot make a single sound as you scream." Hint

Sledgehammer

Red Rain

This Is The Picture

Don't Give Up

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Question 4 of 15

4. "All of the buildings, all of those cars / Were once just a dream in somebody's head." Hint

Don't Give Up

We Do What We're Told

Mercy Street

This Is The Picture

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Question 5 of 15

5. "I'm hearing right and wrong so clearly / There must be more than this / It's only in uncertainty / That we're naked and alive." Hint

Don't Give Up

That Voice Again

Mercy Street

In Your Eyes

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Question 6 of 15

6. "I'm on my way, I'm making it / I've got to make it show / So much larger than life / I'm going to watch it growing." Hint

Big Time

In Your Eyes

Sledgehammer

We Do What We're Told

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Question 7 of 15

7. "I've kicked the habit / Shed my skin / This is the new stuff / I go dancing in." Hint

Big Time

Sledgehammer

In Your Eyes

We Do What We're Told

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Question 8 of 15

8. "In this proud land we grew up strong / We were wanted all along / I was taught to fight, taught to win / I never thought I could fail." Hint

Mercy Street

Big Time

Red Rain

Don't Give Up

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Question 9 of 15

9. "Drove the night toward my home / The place that I was born on the lakeside / As daylight broke, I saw the earth / The trees had burned down to the ground." Hint

Don't Give Up

This Is The Picture

That Voice Again

In Your Eyes

NEXT>

Question 10 of 15

10. "One doubt / One voice / One war / One truth / One dream." Hint

We Do What We're Told

Don't Give Up

Mercy Street

That Voice Again

NEXT>

Question 11 of 15

11. "All my instincts, they return / And the grand facade so soon will burn." Hint

That Voice Again

We Do What We're Told

Sledgehammer

In Your Eyes

NEXT>

Question 12 of 15

12. "I've had enough, I'm getting out / To the city, the big big city." Hint

Big Time

We Do What We're Told

This Is The Picture

Sledgehammer

NEXT>

Question 13 of 15

13. "Flying birds / Excellent birds / Watch them fly / There they go." Hint

We Do What We're Told

Mercy Street

This Is The Picture

That Voice Again

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Question 14 of 15

14. "I want you close, I want you near / I can't help but listen, but I don't want to hear." Hint

That Voice Again

Mercy Street

Red Rain

In Your Eyes

NEXT>

Question 15 of 15

15. "And I can't watch anymore / No more denial / It's so hard to lay down in all of this." Hint

Red Rain

We Do What We're Told

That Voice Again

In Your Eyes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "When I want to run away, I drive off in my car / But whichever way I go, I come back to the place you are."

Answer: In Your Eyes

This song was featured in the movie "Say Anything", directed by Cameron Crowe and starring John Cusack, holding a boom box over his head in the scene that uses this song. Peter Gabriel was initially reluctant to let the filmmakers use it due to its highly personal nature, but thought better of it when he saw the film. The filmmakers paid $200,000 for the rights to the song.

2. "You could have a steam train / If you'd just lay down your tracks."

Answer: Sledgehammer

The video for this song was ranked #4 on MTV's 100 Greatest of All Time, after "Thriller," "Vogue," and "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

3. "I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream / I cannot make a single sound as you scream."

Answer: Red Rain

This song was based on a recurring dream Gabriel had where he was swimming in a sea of red water. As he said, "If feelings of pain do not get brought out, not only do they fester and grow stronger but they manifest themselves in the external world."

4. "All of the buildings, all of those cars / Were once just a dream in somebody's head."

Answer: Mercy Street

This song was based on a book of poems called "Mercy Street" by Anne Sexton, an American mental patient that wrote as a type of therapy. She committed suicide in 1974.

5. "I'm hearing right and wrong so clearly / There must be more than this / It's only in uncertainty / That we're naked and alive."

Answer: That Voice Again

Peter Gabriel wrote three sets of lyrics for this song before writing the final version with guitarist David Rhodes.

6. "I'm on my way, I'm making it / I've got to make it show / So much larger than life / I'm going to watch it growing."

Answer: Big Time

Peter Gabriel calls this song "a satirical story about a basic human urge...success."

7. "I've kicked the habit / Shed my skin / This is the new stuff / I go dancing in."

Answer: Sledgehammer

This song prompted a lot of criticism that Peter Gabriel was trying to copy Phil Collins in order to achieve commercial success. Gabriel claims the song was based on 60s soul music that he listened to as a teenager, and that he was actually the inspiration for Phil Collins.

8. "In this proud land we grew up strong / We were wanted all along / I was taught to fight, taught to win / I never thought I could fail."

Answer: Don't Give Up

This song features Kate Bush as the female voice. It did not start out as a duet, and Gabriel had to change the lyrics so they made sense.

9. "Drove the night toward my home / The place that I was born on the lakeside / As daylight broke, I saw the earth / The trees had burned down to the ground."

Answer: Don't Give Up

The song was inspired by a television show Peter Gabriel saw about unemployment and family life, as well as a photo of a family in the dust bowl depression.

10. "One doubt / One voice / One war / One truth / One dream."

Answer: We Do What We're Told

This song is subtitled "Milgram's 37", referring to Yale professor Stanley Milgram, who had subjects administer electric shocks to another person if they answered a question wrong. According to the study, the subjects didn't want to administer the shocks, but they did what they were told.

11. "All my instincts, they return / And the grand facade so soon will burn."

Answer: In Your Eyes

African musician Youssou N'Dour sang backup on this song. Peter Gabriel performed it in Senegal in 1991 before a crowd of 70,000.

12. "I've had enough, I'm getting out / To the city, the big big city."

Answer: Big Time

This song featured Stewart Copeland of The Police on drums.

13. "Flying birds / Excellent birds / Watch them fly / There they go."

Answer: This Is The Picture

This song features Laurie Anderson as the female singer.

14. "I want you close, I want you near / I can't help but listen, but I don't want to hear."

Answer: That Voice Again

This is the last song in Peter Gabriel's "Mozo" project, about a man who travels around changing people's lives. The cycle includes "On The Air," "Exposure", "Here Comes The Flood," "Red Rain," and "Down The Dolce Vita." However, the stage production Gabriel envisioned never developed.

15. "And I can't watch anymore / No more denial / It's so hard to lay down in all of this."

Answer: Red Rain

Stewart Copeland of The Police played the hi-hat cymbals on this song to simulate the sound of rain.

Source: Author asutbone

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