Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Peter Gabriel - Wonderful Day in a One Way World



Peter Gabriel. What a weirdo. Why did he have to leave Genesis? Oh well, at least he did a few pretty good albums on his own I suppose. This is a song from one such album. The album is called Peter Gabriel as is all of his other albums but the common name for it is Scratch. 
"Wonderful Day in a One Way World" demonstrates Gabriel's fondness of African style beats and rhythms and his use of fun catchy synth and guitar parts. The lyrics are typical Gabriel, discussing relativity, time, and Superman in a supermarket. I have no idea what he's talking about and its great.

Saturday is shopping day and I drive my car but there's no place to park it,
No respect for supermen in the supermarket.
I guess there must be trouble but I've not been alerted;
Looking round the store, it was all deserted
And I'm stranded here with my empty basket,
So full of questions but nowhere to ask it.

[Chorus:]
By the one way out, strange voice shouts,
"Don't let that good man out!"
"Have a wonderful day in our one-way world,
One way, one day;
Have a wonderful day in our one-way world,
One way, one day;
One-way man, one-way mind, get along with mankind."

There's an old man on the floor so I summon my charm,
I say, "Hey scumbag, has there been an alarm?"
He says "Yeah, I been selling off eternal youth,
They all got afraid, 'cos I'm the living proof.
My name is Einstein, do you know time is a curve?"
I said, "Stop, old man! You've got a nerve,
'cos there's only one rule that I observe:
Time is money, and money I serve."

[Chorus] 

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