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The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
(Genesis)

Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.

Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their fun.
Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show,
It's the same old ending - time to go.
Get out!
It seems they cannot leave their dream.
There's something moving in the sidewalk steam,
And the lamb lies down...on Broadway.

Nightime's flyers feel their pains.
Drugstore take down the chains.
Metal motion comes in bursts,
The gas station can quench that thirst.
Suspension cracked on unmade road
The trucker's eyes read 'Overload'

And out on the subway,
Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid
Exits into daylight, spraygun hid,
And the lamb lies down...on Broadway.

The lamb seems right out of place,
Yet the Broadway street scene finds a focus in its face.
Somehow it's lying there,
Brings a stillness to the air.
Though man-made light, at night is very bright,
There's no whitewash victim,
As the neons dim, to the coat of white.

Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid
Wipes his gun - he's forgotten what he did,

And the lamb lies down...on Broadway.

Suzanne tired her work all done,
Thinks money - honey - be on - neon.
Cabman's velvet glove sounds the horn
And the sawdust king spits out his scorn.
Wonder women you can draw your blind!
Don't look at me! I'm not your kind.
I'm Rael!
Something inside me has just begun,
Lord knows what I have done,
And the lamb lies down...on Broadway.
On Broadway -
They say the lights are always bright on Broadway.
They say there's always magic in the air.



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Genesis - Genesis Archive, Vol. 1: 1967-1975

  1. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway [Live]
  2. Fly on a Windshield [Live]
  3. Broadway Melody of 1974 [Live]
  4. Cuckoo Cocoon [Live]
  5. In the Cage [Live]
  6. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging [Live]
  7. Back in N.Y.C. [Live]
  8. Hairless Heart [Live]
  9. Counting Out Time [Live]
  10. The Carpet Crawlers [Live]
  11. The Chamber of 32 Doors [Live]
  12. Lilywhite Lilith [Live]
  13. The Waiting Room [Live]
  14. Anyway [Live]
  15. Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist [Live]
  16. The Lamia [Live]
  17. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats [Live]
  18. The Colony of Slippermen: The Arrival/A Visit to the Doktor/The Raven [Arri
  19. Ravine [Live]
  20. The Light Dies Down on Broadway [Live]
  21. Riding the Scree [Live]
  22. In the Rapids [Live]
  23. It [Live]
  24. Dancing With the Moonlit Knight [Live]
  25. Firth of Fifth [Live]
  26. More Fool Me [Live]
  27. Supper's Ready [Live]
  28. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) [Live]
  29. Stagnation [Live]
  30. Twilight Alehouse [Single B Side]
  31. Happy the Man [Single A Side]
  32. Watcher of the Skies [Remix]
  33. The In the Wilderness [Rough Mix Without Strings]
  34. Shepherd [BBC Nightride]
  35. Pacidy [BBC Nightride]
  36. Let Us Now Make Love [BBC Nightride]
  37. Going Out to Get You [Demo Version]
  38. Dusk [Demo Version]
  39. Build Me a Mountain [Rough Mix]
  40. Image Blown Out [Rough Mix]
  41. One Day [Rough Mix]
  42. Where the Sour Turns to Sweet [Demo Version]
  43. In the Beginning [Demo Version]
  44. The Magic of Time [Demo Version]
  45. Hey! [Demo Version]
  46. Hidden in the World of Dawn [Demo Version]
  47. Sea Bee [Demo Version]
  48. The Mystery of the Flannan Isle Lighthouse [Demo Version]
  49. Hair on the Arms and Legs [Demo Version]
  50. She Is Beautiful [Demo Version]
  51. Try a Little Sadness [Demo Version]
  52. Patricia [Demo Version]