Lyrics to
Ravine

This version of Ravine was released by Genesis in 1974.

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He follows a small path running along the top,
and watches the tube bobbing up and down in the water
as the fast current carries it away

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Genesis has released many songs over the years besides Ravine. Genesis released songs from 1969 to 2000 spanning across albums like From Genesis To Revelation, Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, A Trick Of The Tail, Wind And Wuthering, ...And Then There Were Three..., Duke, Abacab, Genesis, Invisible Touch, We Can't Dance, Calling All Stations, Genesis Archive 1967-1975, and Genesis Archives #2 1976-92. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Genesis.

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About Lyrics and Ravine by Genesis

The lyrics to Ravine are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Genesis in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to Ravine are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Genesis and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Ravine back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Ravine by Genesis in a number of ways. 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 Ravine" means the words set to the music of Ravine, 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 Ravine and the lyrics to Ravine 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 Ravine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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