Calling all stations
Can anybody tell me, tell me exactly where I am
I've lost all sense of direction
Watching the darkness closing around me
Feeling the cold all through my body
That's why I'm calling all stations
In the hope that someone hears me
A single lonely voice

I feel the sensation disappearing
There's a tingling in my arms
And there's a numbness in my hands

All the broken promises
All my good intentions don't add up to very much
And I realize whatever happened, whatever happened
I remember all the moments that I've wasted in my life
All the things I was always gonna do
Why is it now when it's too late
That I've finally realized it's important to me
To think that everything that's dear to me
And is always in my heart
Could so easily be taken
And it's tearing me apart
Going over and over in my mind
I relive it one second at a time

Calling all stations
Can anybody tell me, tell me exactly where I am
How different things look when your all on your own
Watching the darkness closing all around me
All around me
And I'm lost with feeling
Of your arms to remind me
Of everything that's dear to me
And is always in my heart
Could so easily be taken
And it's tearing me apart
Going over and over in my mind
I relive it one second at a time
Don't you know there's never been a moment
When I haven't had the thought
That everything that's dear to me
And is always in my heart
Could so easily be taken
And it's tearing me apart
Going over and over in my mind
I relive it one second at a time
As I sit here in the darkness
Feeling so alone
And everything that's dear to me
And is always in my heart


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Calling All Stations Lyrics as written by Michael Rutherford Anthony George Banks

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    this is a great song, with some great lyrics. i can't believe there's no comments. sure it's not true Genesis, but it's still good music.
    lzphishheadon March 05, 2007   Link
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    wow what a song...so deep and powerful...
    pepe3797on December 26, 2007   Link
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    I agree lzphishhead! Very powerful song! I do disagree, to me it is just as much true Genesis as any other. To me its about someone going through a dark period in their life with no one to turn to. Thats why he/she is calling all stations!
    Genesisfanon October 30, 2012   Link
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    Great Tune! I think of it as David Bowie’s - Major Tom- Him lost in space, saying goodbye to his family through Ground Control. In Recent News the Titan submarine imploding: (Near the Titanic wreckage)I put myself in that submarine, hearing the crunching, cracking, and these lyrics: so haunting….
    Bsanf57on June 29, 2023   Link

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