Lyrics to
Anyway

This version of Anyway was released by Genesis in 1974.

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All the pumping’s nearly over for my sweet heart,
This is the one for me,
Time to meet the chef,
O boy! running man is out of death.
Feel cold and old, it’s getting hard to catch my breath.
‘s back to ash, now, you’ve had your flash boy
The rocks, in time, compress
your blood to oil,
your flesh to coal,
enrich the soil,
not everybody’s goal.

Anyway, they say she comes on a plale horse,
But I’m sure I hear a train.
O boy! I don’t even feel no pain-
I guess I must be driving myself insane.
Damn it all! does earth plug a hole in heaven,
Or heaven plug a hole in the earth-‘how wonderful to be so profound,
when everything you are is dying underground.’

I feel the pull on the rope, let me off at the rainbow.
I could have been exploding in space
Different orbits for my bones
Not me, just quietly buried in stones,
Keep the deadline open with my maker!
See me stretch; for God’s elastic acre
The doorbell rings and it’s
“Good morning Rael
So sorry you had to wait.
It won’t be long, yeh!
She’s very rarely late.”

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About Lyrics and Anyway by Genesis

The lyrics for Anyway are defined as the words making up the song released by Genesis in 1974. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Anyway have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Genesis and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Anyway by Genesis if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Anyway" means the words set to the music of Anyway, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Genesis. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Anyway and the lyrics to Anyway are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Genesis who came here looking just for the lyrics to Anyway, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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