Peter Gabriel (Security)

Looking out the window

I see the red dust clear

High up on the red rock

Stands the shadow with the spear



The land here is strong

Strong beneath my feet

it feeds on the blood

it feeds on the heat



     The rhythm is below me

     The rhythm of the heat

     The rhythm is around me

     The rhythm has control

     The rhythm is inside me

     The rhythm has my soul



     The rhythm of the heat

     The rhythm of the heat

     The rhythm of the heat

     The rhythm of the heat



Drawn across the plainland

To the place that is higher

Drawn into the circle

That dances round the fire

We spit into out hands

And breathe across the palms

Raising them up high

Help open to the sun



Self-conscious, uncertain

I'm showered with the dust

The spirit enter into me

And I submit to trust



     Smash the radio

     No outside voices here

     Smash the watch

     Cannot tear the day to shreds

     Smash the camera

     Cannot steal away the spirits

     The rhythm is around me

     The rhythm has control

     The rhythm is inside me

     The rhythm has my soul

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

Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams

Her honey belly pulls the seams

Curves are still upon the hinge

Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin



Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night

The sponge is full, well out of sight

All around the conversations

Icing on the warm flesh cake



Light creeps through her secret tunnels

Sucked into the open spaces

Burning out in sudden flashes

Draining blood from well-fed faces



Desires form in subtle whispers

Flex the muscles in denial

Up and down its pristine cage

So the music, so the trial



Vows of sacrifice, headless chickens

Dance in circles, they the blessed

Man and wife, undressed by all

Their grafted trunks in heat possessed



Even as the soft skins tingle

They mingle with the homeless mother

Who loves the day but lives another

That once was hers



The worried father, long lost lover

Brushes ashes with his broom

Rehearses jokes to fly and hover

Bursting over the bride and groom



And the talk goes on



Memories crash on tireless waves

The lifeguards whom the winter saves



Silence falls the guillotine

All the doors are shut

Nervous hands grip tight the knife

In the darkness, till the cake is cut

Passed around, in little pieces

The body and the flesh

The family and the fishing-net

And another in the mesh



The body and the flesh

Shock the monkey to live

Shock the monkey to live



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 when you're going to shock the monkey



Fox the fox

Rat 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



     Wheels keep turning

     Something's burning

     Don't like it but I guess I'm learning



Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey



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



     Too much at stake

     Ground beneath me shake

     And the news is breaking



Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey



Shock the monkey

Shock the monkey

Shock the monkey to life

Sat in the corner of the Garden Grill, with plastic flowers  on the window sill

No more miracles, loaves and fished, been so busy with the washing of the dishes

Reaction level's much too high - I can do without the stimuli

I'm living way beyond my ways and means, living in the zone of the inbetweens

I can see the flashes on the frozen ocean, static charge of the cold emotion

Watched on by the distant eyes - watched on by the silent hidden spies



     But still the warmth flows through me

     And I sense you know me well

     No luck, no golden chances

     No mitigating circumstances now

     It's only common sense

     There are no accidents around here



     I am willing - lay your hands on me

     I am ready - lay your hands on me

     I believe - lay your hands on me, over me



Working in gardens, thornless roses, fat men play with their garden hoses

Poolside laughter has a cynical bite, sausage speared by the cocktail satellite

I walk away from from light and sound, down stairways leading underground



     But still the warmth flows through me

     And I sense you know me well

     It's only common sense

     There are no accidents around here



     I am willing - lay your hands on me

     I am ready - lay your hands on me

     I believe - lay your hands on me, over me

     over me



     Lay your hands on me

     Lay your hands on me

     Lay your hands on me, over me

6x6 - from wall to wall

Shutters on the windows, no light at all

Damp on the floor you got damp on the bed

They're trying to get you crazy - get you out of your head

They feed you scraps and they feed you lies

To lower your defences, no compromise

Nothing you can do, they day can be long

You ming is working overtime, you body's not too strong



Hold on, hold on

They put you in a box so you can't get heard

Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred



     Hold on, you have gambled with your own life

     And you face the night alone

     While the builders of the cages

     They sleep with bullets, bars and stone

     They do not see your road to freedom

     That you build with flesh and bone



They take you out - the light burns your eyes

To the talking room - it's not surprise

Loaded questions from clean white coats

Their eyes are all as hidden as their Hippocratic Oath

They tell you - how to behave, behave as their guest

You want to resist them, you do your best

They take you to your limits, they take you beyond

For all that they are doing there's no way to respond



Hold on, hold on

They put you in a box so you can't get heard

Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred



     Hold on, you have gambled with your own life

     And you face the night alone

     While the builders of the cages

     They sleep with bullets, bars and stone

     They do not see your road to freedom

     That you build with flesh and bone



Though you may disappear, you're not forgotten here

And I will say to you, I will do what I can do



You may disappear, you're not forgotten here

And I will say you you, I will do what I can do

And I will do what I can do

And I will do what I can do

     See me a big woman, big woman look how you dance

     See me a big woman, big woman caught in a trance



Dancing on the tabletop, covered up with the Easter feast

You're dancing for the fishermen, from the very large right

   to the least

Dancing for the slow release, first the boy and then the beast

   then the beast



     Burning, burning with the kiss of life

     Burning, burning with the kiss of life



     See me, a big woman, big woman so full of life

     See me, a big woman, big woman going to be my wife



Watching for the different eyes - they change your face -

   they come inside

Watch the spirits laugh and cry, watch them find a place to

   hide

Watch the spirits talk in tongues, watch them take you for a

   ride



Down at the ocean lies a body in the sand

Big woman sits beside, head in hand

With heat from her skin, and fire from her breath

She blows hard, she slows deep in the mouth of death



     Burning, burning with the kiss of life

     Burning, burning with the kiss of life

     Burning, burning with the kiss of life