Humdrum
Journey Through the Humdrum: Unveiling the Mysteries of Peter Gabriel's Lyrics
Lyrics
I saw the man at J.F.K.
Observation of a man at the airport named J.F.K.
He took your ticket yesterday
The man collected or checked your ticket the day before.
In the humdrum
Amidst routine or monotony.
I ride tandem with a random
Travelling alongside an unknown person.
Things don't run the way I planned them
Plans not unfolding as intended.
In the humdrum
Within the ordinary, unremarkable.
Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
Asking Valentina if she desires pleading.
You got me cooking I'm a hard boiled egg
Feeling controlled or manipulated.
In the humdrum
Within the routine or mundane.
Empty my mind, I find it hard to cope
Struggling to clear thoughts.
Listen to my heart, don't need no stethoscope
Listening to intuition rather than needing medical validation.
Seem to me that television
Perception of television as intrusive or invasive.
She come to cut me a deep incision
Feeling deeply affected by television.
In the humdrum
Within the routine or mundane.
Empty my mind, I find it hard to cope
Struggling to clear thoughts.
Listen to my heart - don't need no stethoscope
Listening to intuition rather than needing medical validation.
Out of woman come the man
An expression of the cycle of creation.
Spend the rest of his life gettin' back where he can
Striving to regain lost opportunities in life.
As a bow, so a dove
A comparison between different forms, suggesting a relationship.
As below, so above
An expression of connection between the macro and microcosm.
From the black hole
From emptiness or nothingness.
Come the tadpole
Symbolic emergence or creation from darkness.
With the dark soul
A dark or troubled essence or soul.
In coal she burn, she burn
Symbolic combustion or intense burning.
As I drove into the sun
Driving forward without looking back.
Didn't dare look where I had begun
Unwillingness to revisit the past.
Lost among echoes of things not there
Feeling lost among memories or echoes.
Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
Perceiving sounds as tangible shapes.
From the white star
From something pure comes a visible mark or wound.
Came the bright scar
From a fundamental form emerges something vivid.
Our amoeba
A metaphor for primal existence.
My little liebe schoen
An endearing term, possibly referring to a loved one.
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