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I saw the man at J.F.K.
He took your ticket yesterday
In the humdrum
I ride tandem with a random
Things don't run the way I planned them
In the humdrum
Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
You got me cooking I'm a hard boiled egg
In the humdrum
Empty my mind, I find it hard to cope
Listen to my heart, don't need no stethoscope
Seem to me that television
She come to cut me a deep incision
In the humdrum
Empty my mind, I find it hard to cope
Listen to my heart - don't need no stethoscope
Out of woman come the man
Spend the rest of his life gettin' back where he can
As a bow, so a dove
As below, so above
From the black hole
Come the tadpole
With the dark soul
In coal she burn, she burn
As I drove into the sun
Didn't dare look where I had begun
Lost among echoes of things not there
Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
From the white star
Came the bright scar
Our amoeba
My little liebe schoen
He took your ticket yesterday
In the humdrum
I ride tandem with a random
Things don't run the way I planned them
In the humdrum
Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
You got me cooking I'm a hard boiled egg
In the humdrum
Empty my mind, I find it hard to cope
Listen to my heart, don't need no stethoscope
Seem to me that television
She come to cut me a deep incision
In the humdrum
Empty my mind, I find it hard to cope
Listen to my heart - don't need no stethoscope
Out of woman come the man
Spend the rest of his life gettin' back where he can
As a bow, so a dove
As below, so above
From the black hole
Come the tadpole
With the dark soul
In coal she burn, she burn
As I drove into the sun
Didn't dare look where I had begun
Lost among echoes of things not there
Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
From the white star
Came the bright scar
Our amoeba
My little liebe schoen
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Humdrum Lyrics as written by Peter Gabriel
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I don't believe it has any real meaning, but certain parts stick out to me... The "humdrum" I imagine being the crowd of people, the real world, all this noise and talking and people doing their jobs and those staying silent being overlooked. The bridge section has a few lines that sound like the birth process, to me... Obviously there's "out of the woman come the man, spend rest of his life getting back when he can." The woman gives birth to a male, and men have to come back to women for the women to give birth. So here, sex is ironically a means of getting back to childhood, being in the woman. "Our amoeba" makes me think of when a child is first created... a single-celled organism, or an amoeba. It "our" was replaced by "my," though, I doubt I would think of this connotation. The last line means in German "My little beautiful love." This might be referring to a father's love for his child.
Undeniably, my favorite lyrics are: "Lost in the echoes of things not there, watching the sound forming shapes in the air." Peter Gabriel's lyrics are always excellent at painting pictures in my mind like this.