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Peter Gabriel - Lead a Normal Life
Peter Gabriel - Lead a Normal Life


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Album: Peter Gabriel (third, melt)
Released: 1980

Lead a Normal Life Lyrics


It's nice here with a view of the trees
Eating with a spoon?
They don't give you knives?
'Spect you watch those trees
Blowing in the breeze
We want to see you Lead a Normal Life

Writer/s: LEON CAFFREY, PETER GABRIEL, THOMAS SCOTT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Lead a Normal Life
  • This song about mental illness led to questions asking if Gabriel was suffering from the condition himself. He told Mojo magazine September 2013: "I think the assumption was, you couldn't write about something like that unless you had experience of it."

    Gabriel added: "I later discovered I had depression around the time of my marriage breaking up. But maybe there was something more there (long pause). Like actors in films, they say there is always something in a role that they need to work out. But mental illness was interesting to me."

  • Peter Gabriel Songs - I Don't Remember
    Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember


    Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Peter Gabriel (third, melt)
    Released: 1980

    I Don't Remember Lyrics


    I got no means to show identification
    I got no papers show you what I am
    You'll have to take me just the way that you find me
    What's gone is gone and I do not give a damn

    Empty stomach, empty head
    I got empty heart and empty bed
    I Don't Remember
    I don't remember

    I don't remember, I don't recall
    I got no memory of anything at all
    I don't remember, I don't recall
    I got no memory of anything
    Anything at all

    Strange is your language and I have no decoder
    Why don't you make your intentions clear
    With eyes to the sun and your mouth to the soda
    Saying, "Tell me the truth, you got nothing to fear

    Stop staring at me like a bird of prey
    I'm all mixed up, I got nothing to say
    I don't remember
    I don't remember

    I don't remember, I don't recall
    I got no memory of anything at all
    I don't remember, I don't recall
    I got no memory of anything
    Anything at all

    I don't remember, I don't recall
    I got no memory of anything at all
    I don't remember, I don't recall
    I got no memory of anything
    Absolutely anything at all
    I don't remember

    Writer/s: GABRIEL, PETER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • This song is about a man with amnesia being asked a bunch of questions. Gabriel had an interest in psychiatry and explored the topic on this album. In a 1980 interview with Sounds, he called himself "a purveyor of amateur psychiatric cliches," adding, "The only way I can make it work is compare my own experience with the theories."
  • Robert Fripp, Dave Gregory, and David Rhodes all played guitar on this. Fripp was a member of King Crimson.
  • This song was heavily processed, especially at the end where the music is slowed down and distorted further over some barely-audible whispering by Gabriel. The bass and midrange were equalized out of Gabriel's vocals, giving him a tinny sound similar to a phone line.
  • Gabriel wrote this using a new approach. The rhythm was put in a programmable drum machine and the chords and melody built around it. Drum machines were new at the time.

  • Peter Gabriel Songs - Intruder
    Peter Gabriel - Intruder


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    Album: Peter Gabriel (third, melt)
    Released: 1980

    Intruder Lyrics


    I know something about opening windows and doors
    I know how to move quietly to creep across creaky wooden floors
    I know where to find precious things in all your cupboards and drawers

    Slipping the clippers
    Slipping the clippers through the telephone wires
    The sense of isolation, the sense of isoloation
    Inspires me

    I like to feel the suspense when I'm certain you know I am there
    I like you lying awake, your baited breath charging the air
    I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear

    Intruders happy in the dark
    Intruder come
    Intruder come and he leave his mark, leave his mark
    Leave his mark
    Leave his mark
    Leave his mark
    Leave his mark
    Leave his mark
    Leave his mark

    I am the intruder

    Writer/s: GABRIEL, PETER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • This song is about a burglar who breaks into a woman's house and is never caught. Gabriel wanted the listener to feel a "sense of urgency," so he made the song intentionally creepy. He says it was one he always enjoyed performing live.
  • The repeating drum pattern on this song gave it a very distinctive sound and a sinister feel. The drums were played by Phil Collins, who would later use variations of this sound on the equally eerie songs "Mama" and "In The Air Tonight."

    Putting the drums through a gate compression unit and adding reverb created this effect. Gabriel and Collins give different accounts as to where the idea came from. Collins has said that he built the drum track for a song he was working on called "Marguerita," which was never released. Gabriel credits the album's engineer Hugh Padgham and producer Steve Lillywhite for coming up with the processing to create the unusual sound.

    At the time, Collins was taking a break from Genesis after having problems with his first marriage. Gabriel, who played with Collins in Genesis, got him to help out with drums on his third album.
  • Gabriel has cited the work of the filmmakers Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock as influences on this song.
  • Before Phil Collins played the drums on this track, Gabriel had the cymbals and hi-hats removed from the kit. This accomplished the goal of getting Collins to come up with an unusual arrangement, but it got him a little too far out of his comfort zone, as he kept trying to hit cymbals and hi-hats that weren't there. They had to put tom-tom drums where these were so he could keep a rhythm.

  • Peter Gabriel Songs - No Self Control
    Peter Gabriel - No Self Control


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    Album: Peter Gabriel (third, melt)
    Released: 1980

    No Self Control Lyrics


    Got to get some food
    I'm so hungry all the time
    I don't know how to stop
    I don't know how to stop

    Got to get some sleep
    I'm so nervous in the night
    I don't know how to stop
    No, I don't know how to stop
    I don't know how to stop
    I don't know how to stop

    Got to pick up the phone
    I will call any number
    I will talk to anyone
    I know I'm gone too far
    Much too far I gone this time
    And I don't want to think what I've done
    I don't know how to stop
    No, I don't know how to stop

    There are always hidden silences
    Waiting behind the chair
    They come out when the coast is clear
    They eat anything that moves
    I go shaky at the knees
    Lights go out, stars come down
    Like a swarm of bees

    No self-control
    no self-control
    No self-control
    No self-control
    No self-control
    No self-control
    No self-control

    You know I hate to hurt you
    I hate to see your pain
    But I don't know how to stop
    No, I don't know how to stop

    Street after street
    Night after night
    I walk on through the rain
    I walk on through the rain
    I don't know how to stop
    I don't know how to stop

    No, I don't know how to stop
    I don't know how to stop
    I don't know how to stop
    I don't know how to stop

    Writer/s: GABRIEL, PETER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • This was inspired by Steve Reich's album Music For 18 Musicians. A composer who studied at Juilliard, Reich experimented with electronic textures that Gabriel wanted to try in a rock format.
  • In an attempt to create different sounds, Gabriel did not allow cymbals on all of this album. The fast rhythm is generated by marimbas, a wooden African instrument which Gabriel used a lot in the future. Gabriel also used a programmable rhythm machine called a Paia to help create the beats. Gabriel later said that musically, this was one of his breakthrough tracks.
  • Phil Collins, who was taking a break from Genesis while his first marriage fell apart, played drums on this.
  • This was released as a single to coincide with Gabriel's third album, but it didn't chart.

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