Lyrics to
Slowburn

This version of Slowburn was released by Peter Gabriel in 1977.

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We’re character actors from the Tower of Babel
Bewildered, burned out hardly able
To sit astride the high wire cable
It’s hard to balance, a little unstable.

Through broken eyes and contact lenses
(I) Watched you draw your future tenses
See kisses of flame blow out of your lips
You’re back telling me your Apocalypse.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be strong
When the slowburn sunset come along
You’ve gotta stay the night
I gotta think that you might.

We’ve tried a handful of bills and a handful of pills
We’ve tried making movies from a volume of stills
(But) the words fell like hailstones,
bouncing at our feet,
Covering our feelings with a frozen sheet.

A chance to move, I take a shot
I get cold – you get hot
We look outside, lyin’ awake
See birds breaking surface on a silent lake.

But don’t get me wrong, I’ll be strong
When I’m back on the Isle of Avalon
Dont get me wrong, I’ll be strong
When the slow burn sunset come along
You’ve got to stay the night
I’ve got to think that you might.

Don’t try (to) make it easy, it’ll cut you down to size
Darlin’ we’ve got to trust in something
We’re shooting down our skies
shooting down (shooting down) our skies
(shooting down our …)

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About Lyrics and Slowburn by Peter Gabriel

The lyrics for Slowburn are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Peter Gabriel. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Slowburn have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Slowburn - Peter Gabriel and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Slowburn by Peter Gabriel in multiple 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 Slowburn" means the words set to the music of Slowburn, 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 Slowburn and the lyrics to Slowburn 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 Slowburn, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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