| Genesis – Behind The Lines Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I always interpreted this song as about a failed marriage/relationship. The singer is looking through a wedding album/scrap book and seeing the "Forever"/"Love you always", etc. type of lines and wondering what went wrong. He's calling out that there was a commitment/promise "written in the book". There's then memories of trying to reconcile and work through the issues, not really understanding where the disconnect happened but realizing that there was some sort of serious misstep. He comes back to find her "heart is empty" and he eventually realizes that reconciliation isn't possible. The last verse is a final plea and the overall song is a realization that there were conditions "Behind the lines" that he didn't account for. In the context of the whole album, the next song, "Duchess" is about a performer who lives for the performance and lets the rest of her life turn to crap. Then "Guide Vocal" is a whole "I stood by you, supported you and you took it for granted" that could be the other party from "Behind the lines". I may be reading more into it than was intended, but I see a pretty clear story of someone who chose career over relationship and regretted the consequences. |
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