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Riding The Scree

This version of Riding The Scree was released by Genesis in 1974.

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He rushes to the cliff and scrambles down the rocks.
It takes him a long time to get down to the water, trying to keep up with the current at the same time.
As he nears the water’s edge he sees John losing strength.

Struggling down the slope,
There’s not much hope.
I begin to try to ride the scree
but the rocks are tumbling all around me.

If I want John alive,
I’ve got to ditch my fear – take a dive
While I’ve still got my drive to survive.

Evel Knievel you got nothing on me.
Here I go!

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Riding The Scree, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Genesis. Some of the lyrics to Riding The Scree have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Genesis and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Riding The Scree 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 Riding The Scree" means the words set to the music of Riding The Scree, 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 Riding The Scree and the lyrics to Riding The Scree 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 Riding The Scree, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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