Peter Gabriel Quotes

Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave.
Turning the tide, you know you are nobody's slave.

In your eyes,
The light, the heat.
In your eyes, I am complete.
In your eyes,
I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
In your eyes,
The resolution of all the fruitless searches.<p>In your eyes,
I see the light and the heat.
In your eyes,
Oh, I want to be that complete.
I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes.

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've been stretching my mouth
To let those big words come right out.

Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life.
Waiting your time, you're more than just a wife.
You don't want to do what your mother has done,
She has done.
This is your life, this new life has begun.
It's your day - a woman's day.
It's your day - a woman's day.

Jeux sans frontieres

If looks could kill, they probably will In games without frontiers — war without tears.

Cover me, when I sleep Cover me, when I breathe You throw your pearls before the swine Make the monkey blind Cover me, darling please.
Monkey, monkey, monkey.
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?

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.

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

Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.

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 caught sight of my reflection;
I caught it in the window.
I saw the darkness in my heart;
I saw the signs of my undoing.
They had been there from the start,
And the darkness still has work to do.
The knotted chord's untying.
They're heated and they're holy.
Oh they're sitting there on high.
So secure with everything they're buying.

I get so tired of working so hard for our survival I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

In the blood of Eden,
Lie the woman and the man.
With the man in the woman,
And the woman in the man.

Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream how I will find relief I grieve...