Family Snapshot Lyrics

The song Family Snapshot is performed by Peter Gabriel in the album named Hit in the year 2003 .



The streets are lined with camera crews
Everywhere he goes is news
Today is different
Today is not the same
Today I make the action
Take snapshot into the light, snapshot into the light
I'm shooting into the light

Four miles down the cavalcade moves on
Driving into the sun
If I worked it out right
They won't see me or the gun

Two miles to go, they're clearing the road
The cheering has really begun
I've got my radio
I can hear what's going on

I've been waiting for this
I have been waiting for this
All you people in TV land
I will wake up your empty shells
Peak-time viewing blown in a flash
As I burn into your memory cells
'Cos I'm alive

They're coming 'round the corner with the bikers at the front
I'm wiping the sweat from my eyes
-It's a matter of time
-It's a matter of will
And the governor's car is not far behind
He's not the one I've got in mind
'Cos there he is-the man of the hour, standing in the limousine
"I don't really hate you
-I don't care what you do
We were made for each other
-Me and you
I want to be somebody
-You were like that too
If you don't get given you learn to take
And I will take you."

Holding my breath
Release the catch
And I let the bullet fly

All turned quiet-I have been here before
Lonely boy hiding behind the front door
Friends have all gone home
There's my toy gun on the floor
Come back Mum and Dad
You're growing apart
You know that I'm growing up sad
I need some attention
I shoot into the light




Peter Gabriel - Hit

Nov 2003

  1. Solsbury Hill
  2. Shock The Monkey
  3. Sledgehammer
  4. Don't Give Up
  5. Games Without Frontiers
  6. Big Time
  7. Burn You Up, Burn You Down
  8. Growing Up
  9. Digging In The Dirt
  10. Blood Of Eden
  11. More Than This
  12. Biko
  13. Steam
  14. Red Rain
  15. Here Comes The Flood
  16. San Jacinto
  17. I Don't Remember
  18. The Rhythm Of The Heat
  19. Love To Be Loved
  20. I Grieve
  21. Family Snapshot
  22. In Your Eyes
  23. The Drop
  24. The Tower That Ate People
  25. Lovetown
  26. Father Son
  27. Signal To Noise
  28. Downside Up
  29. Cloudless


Family Snapshot