GENESIS


Trespass
Definitive Edition Remaster

(1970)



1. Looking For Someone 7'07
(GENESIS)
2. White Mountain 6'46
(GENESIS)
3. Visions Of Angels 6'51
(GENESIS)
4. Stagnation 8'51
(GENESIS)
5. Dusk 4'13
(GENESIS)
6. The Knife 8'55
(GENESIS)

Total Time: 42:42


  • Peter Gabriel - Lead Voice, Flute, Accordion, Tambourine and Bass Drum
  • Anthony Phillips - Acoustic 12-string, Lead Electric, Dulcimer, Voices. Anthony Banks: Organ, Piano, Mellotron, Guitar, Voices
  • Michael Rutherford - Acoustic 12-string, Electric Bass, Nylon, Cello, Voices
  • John Mayhew - Drums, Percussion, Voices

    Produced by John Anthony
    Remastered at
    The FARM and ABBEY ROAD by Nick Davis, Geoff Callingham and Chris Blair
    Engineer: Robin Cable
    Artwork: Paul Whitehead for
    CLEEN MASHINE STUDIO

    All Titles Composed and Arranged by GENESIS

    All Songs Published by STRATSONG

    Thanks To Rich and Dave and all at CHARISMA

    ̉he copyright in this recording is owned by VIRGIN RECORDS Ltd.
    ©1970 VIRGIN RECORDS Ltd.
    ©1994 VIRGIN RECORDS Ltd.





    1. Looking For Someone

      Looking for someone, I guess I'm doing that,
      Trying to find a mem'ry in a dark room.
      Dirty man, you're looking like a Buddha,
      I know you well - yeah.

      Keep on a straight line, I don't believe I can,
      Trying to find a needle in a haystack.
      Chilly wind you're piercing like a dagger,
      It hurts me so - yeah.

      Nobody needs to discover me,
      I'm back again.
      You see the sunlight through the
      Trees to keep you warm,
      In peaceful shades of green.
      Yet in the darkness of my mind
      Damascus wasn't far behind.

      Lost in a subway, I guess I'm losing time,
      There's a man looking at a magazine.
      You're such a fool, your mumbo-jumbo
      Never tells me anything - yeah.

      Nobody needs to discover me,
      I'm back again.
      You feel the ashes from the
      Fire that kept you warm.
      Its comfort disappears,
      But still the only friend I know
      Would never tell me where I go.

      Looking for someone,
      And now I've found myself a name.
      Come away, leave me,
      All that I have I will give.
      Leave me, leave me,
      All that I am I will give.

    2. White Mountain

      Thin hung the web like a trap in a cage,
      The fox lay asleep in his lair.
      Fang's frantic paws told the tale of his sin,
      Far off the chase shrieked revenge.
      Outcast he trespassed where no wolf may tread,
      The last sacred haunt of the dead.
      He learnt of a truth which only one wolf may know,
      The sceptre and crown of a king.
      Howling for blood, One-eye leads on the pack,
      Plunging through forest and snowstorm.

      Steep rose the ridge, ghostly peaks climbed the sky,
      Fang sped through jungles of ice.
      Hard on his tail, One-eye drew from the pack -
      An old hero conquered by none.
      Steep, far too steep, grew the pathway ahead,
      Descent was the only escape.
      A wolf never flees in the face of his foe,
      Fang knew the price he would pay -
      One-eye stood before him
      With the crown upon his head,
      Sceptre raised to deal the deadly blow.

      Fang, son of Great Fang, the traitor we seek,
      The laws of the brethren say this:
      That only the king sees the crown of the gods,
      And he, the usurper, must die.
      Snarling he tore at the throat of his foe,
      But Fang fought the hero in vain.
      Dawn saw the white mountain tinted with red -
      Never would the crown leave again.
      One-eye his the crown and with laurels on his head
      Returned amongst the tribe and dwelt in peace.

    3. Visions of Angels

      Standing in a forest gazing at the sun
      looking at the trees but there's not even one
      See a rippling stream that smiles and then goes by
      run to feel its comfort but the water's dry.

      I see her face and run to take her hand
      Whey she's never there I don't understand
      The trumpets sound my whole world crumbles down

      Visions of angels all around
      dance in the sky
      Leaving me here
      forever goodbye.

      As the leaves will crumble so will fall my love
      for the fragile beauty of our lives must fade
      Though I once remember echoes of my youth
      now I sense no past, no love that ends in love

      Take this dream the stars have filled with light
      As the blossom glides like snowflakes from the trees
      In vengeance to a god no-one can reach.

      Visions of angels all around
      dance in the sky
      Leaving me here
      forever goodbye.

      Ice is moving and world's begun to freeze
      see the sunlight stopped and deadened by the breeze
      Minds are empty bodies move insensitive
      some believe that when they die they really live I believe there never is an end
      God gave up this world its people long ago
      Why she's never there I still don't understand

      Visions of angels all around
      dance in the sky
      Leaving me here
      forever goodbye.

      Visions of angels all around
      dance in the sky
      Leaving me here
      forever goodbye.

    4. Stagnation

      To Thomas S. Eiselberg, a very rich man, who was wise enough
      to spend all his fortunes in burying himself many miles beneath
      the ground. As the only surviving member of the human race, he inherited the whole world.

      Here today the red sky tells his tale,
      but the only listening eyes are mine
      There is peace amongst the hills,
      and the night will cover all my pride.
      Blest are they who smile from bodies free,
      seems to me like any other crowd
      who are waiting to be saved.

      Wait, there still is time for washing in the pool,
      wash away the past.
      Moon, my long-lost friend is smiling from above,
      smiling at my tears.
      Come we'll walk the path to take us to my home,
      keep outside the night.
      The ice-cold knife has come to decorate the dead,
      somehow.

      And each will find a home,
      And there will still be time,
      for loving my friend
      - You are there -

      And I will wait for ever, beside the silent mirror
      And fish for bitter minnows amongst the weeds and slimy water.

      I, I...said I want to sit down
      I, I...said I want to sit down.
      I want a drink - I want a drink,
      To take all the dust and the dirt from my throat,
      I want a drink - I want a drink,
      To wash out the filth that is deep in my guts,
      I want a drink.

      THEN LET US DRINK - THEN LET US SMILE
      - THEN LET US GO.

    5. Dusk

      See my hand is moving
      touching all that's real
      And once it stroked love's body
      now it claws the past.
      The scent of a flower,
      The colours of the morning,
      Friends to believe in,
      Tears soon forgotten,
      See how the rain drives away, another day.

      If a leaf as fallen
      does the tree lie broken?
      And if we draw some water
      does the well run dry?
      They tear at each other,
      Once Jesus suffered, And now my ship is sinking,

    6. The Knife

      For Those that Trespass against us

      Tell me my life is about to begin Now, in this ugly world Now, when I give the word Now -

      Stand up and fight, for you know we are right Soon we'll have power, every soldier will rest
      And we'll spread out our kindness
      To all who our love now deserve.
      Some of you are going to die -
      Martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide.

      I'll give you the names of those you must kill,
      All must die with their children.
      Carry their heads to the palace of old,
      Hang them high, let the blood flow.
      Now, in this ugly world
      break all the chains around us,
      Now, the crusade has begun
      give us a land fit for heroes,
      Now -

      Stand up and fight, for you know we are right
      We must strike at the lies
      That have spread like disease through our minds.
      Soon we'll have power, every soldier will rest
      And we'll spread out our kindness
      To all who our love now deserve.
      Some of you are going to die -
      Martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide.

      We are only wanting freedom
      We are only wanting freedom
      We are only wanting freedom
      We are only wanting freedom ("Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom...")
      We are only wanting freedom ("Things are getting out of control here today")
      We are only wanting freedom ("OK men - fire over their heads!")
      We are only wanting freedom

      --- WE HAVE WON ---

      Some of you are going to die,
      Martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide.