I believe this song is a lamentation for women who trade solely on their looks. (A blue girl may even be a reference to a prostitute.) Eventually, we all must endure the process of aging, but for a supermodel or trophy wife, for example, the realization of fading beauty may be especially distressing.
The ripples are the waves of time created by the falling tearsdrops of a woman lamenting the loss of her youthful beauty. Each ripple sadly carrying away a relection of the face as it is succeeded by the next ripple, and the next, as time and tide pass on.
This is a beautiful composition from one of the most underated productions in contemporary music history. In my opinion, Trick of the Tail was Genesis' magnus opus and one of the all time best albums within the genre of progressive rock.
I believe this song is a lamentation for women who trade solely on their looks. (A blue girl may even be a reference to a prostitute.) Eventually, we all must endure the process of aging, but for a supermodel or trophy wife, for example, the realization of fading beauty may be especially distressing.
The ripples are the waves of time created by the falling tearsdrops of a woman lamenting the loss of her youthful beauty. Each ripple sadly carrying away a relection of the face as it is succeeded by the next ripple, and the next, as time and tide pass on.
This is a beautiful composition from one of the most underated productions in contemporary music history. In my opinion, Trick of the Tail was Genesis' magnus opus and one of the all time best albums within the genre of progressive rock.