The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging Lyrics

Lyric discussion by pshow99 

Cover art for The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging lyrics by Genesis

We love this song. It was true in 1974 and true today. Essentially, it is a comment on how creativity has become compromised by cookie-cutter products that people blindly buy (empty in their fullness) because someone told them to through tricky adverts( dishing out failsafe superlatives).

Also, I think there is a sneaky little parallel to John Lennon here. In the story, John is Rael's brother who happens to be a real jerk. By 74, this sentiment was strongly felt by many toward John for either leaving the beatles for Yoko or for disappearing pretty much all together. And lest we all forget John's admitted obsession with the number 9...

@pshow99 Officer Frankle ono wich . ha ha . subversive humour , or just my over active imagination ?