Lyrics to
The Waiting Room

This version of The Waiting Room was released by Genesis in 1974.

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He panics, feels around for a stone and hurls it at the brightest point.
The sound of breaking glass echoes around the cave.
As his vision is restored he catches sight of two golden gloves
about one foot in diameter hovering away down the tunnel.
When they disappear a resounding crack sears across the roof, and it collapses all around him.
Our hero is trapped once again.

“This is it” he thinks, failing to move any of the fallen rocks

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About Lyrics and The Waiting Room by Genesis

The lyrics to The Waiting Room are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Genesis used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to The Waiting Room have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Genesis and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Waiting Room by Genesis. 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 The Waiting Room" means the words set to the music of The Waiting Room, 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 The Waiting Room and the lyrics to The Waiting Room 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 The Waiting Room, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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