Peter Gabriel - Disco: 'Peter Gabriel III'

Intruder

Gabriel

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 inspires

Inspires me

I like to feel the suspense when

I'm certain you know I am there

I like you lying awake,

your bated breath charging the air

I like the touch and the smell

of all the pretty dresses you wear

Intruder's happy
in the dark

Intruder come

Intruder come and he leave his mark

leave his mark.

Intruso

No Self-Control
Gabriel

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 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

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.

Sin autocontrol

I'dont Remember
Gabriel

I got no means
to show identification
I got no paper to 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.

No recuerdo

Family Snapshot
Gabriel

The streets are
lined with camera crews
Everwhere he goes is news
Today is different
Today is not the same
Today I make the action
Take shapshot into the light
Snapshot into the light
- I'm shooting into the light

Four miles down
the cavalcade moves on
driving into the sun
if I worked it out right
they won't see me or the gun

Two miles to go,
they're clearing the road
the cheering has really begun
I've got my radio
I can hear what's going on

I've been waiting
for this
I have been waiting for this
All you people in TV land -
I will wake up your empty shells
Peak-time viewing blown in a flash
as I burn into your memory cells
'cos I, I'm alive

They're coming
round the corner with the
bikers at the front
I'm wiping the sweat from my eyes
-it's a matter of time
-it's a matter of will
and the governor's car is not far behind
he's not the one I've got in mind
'cos there he is - the man of the hour,
standing in the limousine
"I don't really hate you
-I don't care what you do
We were made for each other - me and you
I want to be somebody - you were like that too
If you don't get given you learn to take
and I will take you"

Holding my breath
Realease the catch and I
let the bullet fly -

All turned quiet
- I have been here before
Lonely boy hiding behind the front door
Friends have all gone home
There's my toy gun on the floor
Come back Mum and Dad
You're growing apart
you know that I'm growing up sad
I need some attention
-I shoot into the light.

Foto de familia

And Through The Wire
Gabriel

And through the
wire I hear you race
and through the wire I touch the power
and through the wire I see your face

Its through the
wire

Friday night,
you're staying at home I want you
I'm ticking and clicking - a metronome I want you
parting the waterhole - I wait for the kill I want you
pressures building - overspill I want you

And through the
wire you are secure
and through the wire you can talk
and through the wire we can walk

Its through the
wire

Watchmaker steadies
his delicate hands I want you
for barbecue parties on blood red sands I want you
caught in the struggle tight on the red I want you
bring out the devil to bring out the god I want you

And through the
wire I hear your voice
and through the wire I touch the power
and through the wire I see your face

Its through the
wire

Driving round
the city rings
staring at the shape of things
I talk in pictures not in words
overloaded with everything we said
be careful where you tread
watch the wire

And through the
wire you are secure
and through the wire we can talk
and through the wire we can walk

And through the
wire we're clinging like leeches
and through the wire we push our tailor made speeches
and through the wire we get so strange across the border

We get so strange
across the border.

Pendiente de un hilo

Games Without Frontiers
Gabriel

Hans plays with
Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt
Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it
-whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside
-whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle

Its a knockout

If looks could
kill they probably will
in games without frontiers - war without tears
If looks could kill they probably will
in games without frontiers - war without tears
games without frontiers - war without tears

Jeux sans frontières
Jeux sans frontières
Jeux sans frontières

André has
a red flag, Chiang Ching's is blue
They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu
Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games
Hiding out in tree-tops, shouting out rude names
-whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside
-whistling tunes we piss on the goons in the jungle

Its a knockout

If looks could
kill they probably will
in games without frontiers - war without tears
If looks could kill they probably will
in games without frontiers - war without tears
games without frontiers - war without tears

Jeux sans frontières
Jeux sans frontières.

Juegos sin límites

Not One of Us
Gabriel

Its only water
in a strangers tear
Looks are deceptive
but distinctions are clear
A foreign body
and a foreign mind
Never welcome
in the land of the blind
You many look like we do
talk like we do
-but you know how it is

You're not one
of us
Not one of us
No you're not one of us
Not one of us
Not one of us
No you're not one of us

There's safety
in numbers
when you learn to divide
How can we be in
if there is no outside
All shades of opinion
feed an open mind
But your values are twisted
let us help you unwind
You may look like we do
talk like we do
-but you know how it is

You're not one
of us
Not one of us
No you're not one of us
You're not one of us
Not one of us
No you're not one of us
Not one of us
You're not one of us.

Ninguno de nosotros

Lead a Normal Life
Gabriel

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.

Llevar una vida normal

Biko
Gabriel

September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In Police Room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-the man is dead

When I try to
sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
with only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-the man is dead

You can blow out
a candle,
but you can't blow out a fire
once the flame begins to catch
the wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-the man is dead

And the eyes of
the world are
watching now watching now.

Biko