Favorite post-Gabriel Genesis song. Tony Banks is just criminally underrated as both a keyboardist and songwriter/lyricist. Eminently beautiful music-crafting mingles with storytelling to make Tolkien proud, yielding a song I routinely seek out in my searches for great live Genesis recordings. I think it's less religious in theme or overtones than perhaps a cautionary tale about following warmongering leaders. Change your own water into wine. Listening right now to the version they did in Dijon, France, 6/3/78. (Daryl Steurmer does a good, though not excellent job of mimicking Steve Hackett on the delicate melodic nuances, but it comes off nicely. I prefer Steve on this song.)
Favorite post-Gabriel Genesis song. Tony Banks is just criminally underrated as both a keyboardist and songwriter/lyricist. Eminently beautiful music-crafting mingles with storytelling to make Tolkien proud, yielding a song I routinely seek out in my searches for great live Genesis recordings. I think it's less religious in theme or overtones than perhaps a cautionary tale about following warmongering leaders. Change your own water into wine. Listening right now to the version they did in Dijon, France, 6/3/78. (Daryl Steurmer does a good, though not excellent job of mimicking Steve Hackett on the delicate melodic nuances, but it comes off nicely. I prefer Steve on this song.)