Lyrics to
Excuse Me

This version of Excuse Me was released by Peter Gabriel in 1977.

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Excuse me
You’re wearing out my joie de vie
Grabbing those good years again
I want to be alone

Excuse me
I’m not the man I used to be
Someone else crept in again
I want to be alone

Excuse me please
I’m looking for Lost Angeles
Soaking up the sin again
I want to be alone

You got the money back, that’s okay
Who needs a Cadillac anyway
I got the medicine, make you see the light
Call me in Alaska if it all turns out right (Allright)

Excuse me please
You’re standing on my memories
Stealing souvenirs again
I want to be alone
Leave me alone, I wanna be alone…

You got the money back, that’s okay
Who needs a Cadillac anyway
I got the medicine, (to) make you see the light
Call me in Alaska, if it all turns out right

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About Lyrics and Excuse Me by Peter Gabriel

When you decide to study the lyrics to Excuse Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Peter Gabriel. Some of the lyrics to Excuse Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Peter Gabriel and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Excuse Me if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Excuse Me" means the words set to the music of Excuse Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Peter Gabriel. 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 Excuse Me and the lyrics to Excuse Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Peter Gabriel who came here looking just for the lyrics to Excuse Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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