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Fill in the blanks to some of the lyrics to "Supper's Ready".
The song starts, softly:
"Walking across the
I turn the television off
Sitting beside you
I look into your eyes
As the sound of
Fades in the nighttime
I swear I saw your face change
It didn't seem quite right
And it's, "
With your eyes so blue"
Several minutes later, we've speeded up quite a lot:
"Wearing on our faces
While our faces took a rest
We walked across the fields
To see the of the West
But we saw a host of dark-skinned
Standing still below the ground !"
Further on yet, the tone has changed significantly:
"Open your eyes, it's full of surprise
Everyone lies like the fox on the rocks
And the
Oh, there's and good and bad
And everyone's happy to be here
There's dressed in drag
He used to be a , plastic bag,
The frog was a prince, the prince was a brick
The brick was an egg, the egg was a bird
Fly away, you "
And finally, after really quite a lot more, we come to the end, on a note of what I can only imagine to be triumph:
"There's an angel standing in the
And he's crying with a loud voice
"This is the supper of the "
Lord of lords, king of kings
Has returned to lead his children home
To take them to the !"
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[mighty one][sweet little thing][British flag][feelings][sun][sitting room][motor cars][Hello babe][warriors][musical box][guardian][children][what a drag][mum and dad][New Jerusalem][Waiting for battle][Winston Churchill]
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"Supper's Ready" makes up most of side two of 1972's "Foxtrot" album, at 22 minutes and 54 seconds. The album was something of a breakthrough for the band - they had been having a certain amount of success previously in Belgium and Italy, but this was their first to get on the charts in any significant way in the UK. It got very little notice in the US, though.
There are various stories from various people about what's going on in the lyrics, written by Peter Gabriel, of "Supper's Ready". It's a fairly safe assumption that drugs played a part, though accounts differ on how much and how significantly. There was also some sort of spiritual journey on Gabriel's part, with the Book of Revelations and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" in mind during the writing.
Live performances of this song - during both the "Foxtrot" and "Selling England by the Pound" tours - are legendary, with Gabriel as lead singer and frontman leaning hard into the theatricality of it all. I never saw this live myself, but have spoken to people who have, and they report being completely blown away. It's been performed a few times since Peter Gabriel left Genesis, but somehow I don't quite see Phil Collins fully embracing the madness the way Gabriel did.
If it's been a while since you listened to this song, do yourself a favour and give it a spin - it really is as great as you remember.
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