This song is a beautiful mish-mash of lyrics and ideas. I can't find a single coherent story among it, but it's so beautiful.
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.
This song is a beautiful mish-mash of lyrics and ideas. I can't find a single coherent story among it, but it's so beautiful.
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.