Peter GABRIEL


Growing Up
(Live)

(2 CD)

(2003)



Recorded Live At THE FILAFORUM, MILAN



Disc 1

1. Here Comes The Flood 5'59
2. Darkness 6'52
3. Red Rain 6'18
4. Secret World 8'34
5. Sky Blue 8'11
6. Downside Up 6'05
7. The Barry Williams Show 9'47
8. More Than This 7'17
9. Mercy Street 7'41
10. Digging In The Dirt 6'15

Disc 2

11. Growing Up 8'07
12. Animal Nation 15'34
(featuring Dr Hukwe and Charles Zawose)
13. Solsbury Hills 4'22
14. Sledgehammer 6'08
15. Signal To Noise 8'02
(featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
16. In Your Eyes 10'54
17. Father, Son 5'25

Total Time: 72:59 + 58:32


  • Peter Gabriel - Vocals, Keyboards
  • Tony Levin - Music Man 5 String Sting Ray Bass, NS Electric Upright, NS Electric Cello, Music Man Fretless 4 String, Gibson EB2, Nord Bass Backing Vocals
  • Ged Lynch - Drums, Percussion, Congas, Drum Kit
  • David Rhodes - Frudua electric, Fender JazzMaster, Fernandez electric,Gibson Les Paul, Neptune Baritone, Backing Vocals
  • Richard Evans - Godin Mandolin, Rickenbacker 12-String, Dave King Acoustic, Dave King 12-String, Dave King Dobro, Overton whistles, Backing Vocals
  • Rachel Z - Kurzweil 2600 keyboards, Korg Triton Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  • Melanie Gabriel - Vocal

    Special Guests:

    Sevara Nazarkhan
    Toir Kuziyev
    Bakhtiyorjon Kabilov
    Marat Maksudov
    Vladimir Badirov
    Shukhrat Mirusmanov

    The BLIND BOYS Of ALABAMA:

    Clarence Fountain
    Jimmy Carter
    Joey Williams

    Ian Stewart - Producer
    Hamish Hamilton - Director
    Production Conceived and Designed by
    Peter Gabriel and Robert Lepage
    Executive Producers for REAL WORLD:
    Mike Large, David Taraskevics and Peter Gabriel
    Steve Martin - Production Manager
    Richard Chappell - Sound Engineer and Technician
    Ben Findlay - Mix Engineer
    Clare Lewis - Assistant Engineer
    Chris Treble - Assistant Engineer
    Matthew Cochrane - Assistant Engineer
    Bruno Ellingham - Assistant Engineer
    Tobie Horswill / Ex MACHINA - Technical Consultant
    Annie Parsons - Assistant to Peter Gabriel
    Tim Summerhates - Location Recording
    Nick Fry - Dubbing Mixer
    Bill Morris - Technical Manager
    Hayley Collett - Assistant Director
    Rebecca Mays - Production Co-ordinator

    Audio Engineered and Mixed at REAL WORLD STUDIOS





    1. Here Comes The Flood

      When the night shows
      The signals grow on radios
      All the strange things
      They come and go, as early warnings
      Stranded starfish have no place to hide
      Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
      There's no point in direction we cannot
      Even choose a side.

      I took the old track
      the hollow shoulder, across the waters
      On the tall cliffs
      They were getting older, sons and daughters
      The jaded underworld was riding high
      Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
      And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
      Was warm and soaked the crowd.

      Lord, here comes the flood
      We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
      If again the seas are silent
      in any still alive
      It'll be those who gave their island to survive
      Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

      When the flood calls
      You have no home, you have no walls
      In the thunder crash
      You're a thousand minds, within a flash
      Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
      The actors gone, there's only you and me
      And if we break before the dawn, they'll
      use up what we used to be.

      Lord, here comes the flood
      We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
      If again the seas are silent
      in any still alive
      It'll be those who gave their island to survive
      Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

    2. Darkness

      I'm scared of swimming in the sea
      Dark shapes moving under me
      Every fear I swallow makes me small
      Inconsequential things occur
      Alarms are triggered
      Memories stir
      It s not the way it has to be

      I'm afraid of what I do not know
      I hate being undermined
      I'm afraid I can be devil man
      And I'm scared to be divine
      Don't mess with me my fuse is short
      Beneath this skin these fragments caught

      When I allow it to be
      There's no control over me
      I have my fears
      But they do not have me

      Walking through the undergrowth, to the house in the woods
      The deeper i go, the darker it gets
      I peer through the window
      Knock at the door
      And the monster i was
      So afraid of
      Lies curled up on the floor
      Is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy

      I cry until I laugh

      I'm afraid of being mothered
      With my balls shut in the pen
      I'm afraid of loving women
      And I'm scared of loving men
      Flashbacks coming in every night
      Don't tell me everything s alright

      When I allow it to be
      It has no control over me
      I own my fear
      So it doesn't own me

      Walking through the undergrowth, to the house in the woods
      The deeper I go, the darker it gets
      I peer through the window
      Knock at the door
      And the monster I was
      So afraid of
      Lies curled up on the floor
      Is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy

      I cry until I laugh

    3. Red Rain

      Red rain is coming down
      Red rain
      Red rain is pouring down
      Pouring down all over me

      I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
      I cannot make a single sound as you scream
      It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch
      This place is so quiet, sensing that storm

      Red rain is coming down
      Red rain
      Red rain is pouring down
      Pouring down all over me

      Well I've seen them buried in a sheltered place in this town
      They tell you that this rain can sting, and look down
      There is no blood around see no sign of pain
      Hay ay ay no pain
      Seeing no red at all, see no rain

      Red rain is coming down
      Red rain
      Red rain is pouring down
      Pouring down all over me

      Red rain-
      Putting the pressure on much harder now
      To return again and again
      Just let the red rain splash you
      Let the rain fall on your skin
      I come to you defences down
      With the trust of a child

      Red rain is coming down
      Red rain
      Red rain is pouring down
      Pouring down all over me
      And I can't watch any more
      No more denial
      It's so hard to lay down in all of this
      Eed rain is coming down
      Eed rain is pouring down
      Eed rain is coming down all over me
      I see it
      Red rain is coming down
      Red rain is pouring down
      Red rain is coming down all over me
      I'm bathing in it
      Red rain coming down
      Red rain is coming down
      Red rain is coming down all over me
      I'm begging you
      Red rain coming down
      Red rain coming down
      Red rain coming down
      Red rain coming down
      Over me in the red red sea
      Over me
      Over me
      Red rain

    4. Secret World

      I stood in this sunsheltered place
      'Til I could see the face behind the face
      All that had gone before had left no trace

      Down by the railway siding
      In our secret world, we were colliding
      All the places we were hiding love
      What was it we were thinking of?

      So I watch you wash your hair
      Underwater, unaware
      And the plane flies through the air
      Did you think you didn't have to choose it
      That I alone could win or lose it
      In all the places we were hiding love
      What was it we were thinking of?

      In this house of make believe
      Divided in two, like Adam and Eve
      You put out and I recieve
    chorus:

    Down by the railway siding
    In our secret world, we were colliding
    In all the places we were hiding love
    What was it we were thinking of ?
      Oh the wheel is turning spinning round and round
      And the house is crubling but the stairways stand

      With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame
      Whatever it is, we are all the same

      Making it up in our secret world [x3]
      Shaking it up
      Breaking it up
      Making it up in our secret world

      Seeing things that were not there
      On a wing on a prayer
      In this state of disrepair
    Chorus
      Shh, listen ...

    5. Sky Blue

      Lost my time lost my place in
      Sky blue
      Those two blue eyes light your face in
      Sky blue
      I know how to fly, i know how to drown in
      Sky blue

      Warm wind blowing over the earth
      Sky blue
      I sing through the land, the land sings through me
      Sky blue
      Reaching into the deepest shade of
      Sky blue

      Sky blue so tired of all this travelling
      So many miles away from home
      I keep moving to be stable
      Free to wander, free to roam

      Train pulled out said my goodbyes
      Sky blue
      Back on the road alone with the sky
      Sky blue
      There s a presence here no one denies
      Sky blue

      Sky blue so tired of all this travelling
      So many miles away from home
      I keep moving to be stable
      Free to wander, free to roam

      I can hear the same voice calling
      Crying out, from my heart
      And that cry, what a cry
      What a cry, it s going to be
      If I can stop to let it out, oh.

    6. Downside Up

      I looked up at the tallest building
      Felt it falling down
      I could feel my balance shifting
      Everything was moving around
      These streets so fixed and solid
      A shimmering haze
      And everything that I relied on disappeared

      Downside up, upside down
      Take my weight from the ground
      Falling deep in the sky
      Slipping in the unknown
      All the strangers look like family
      All the family looks so strange
      The only constant I am sure of
      Is this accelerating rate of change

      Downside up, upside down
      Take my weight off the ground
      Falling deep in the sky
      Slipping in the unknown

      I stand here
      Watch you spinning
      Until I am drawn in
      A centripetal force
      You pull me in

      Pull me in
      Pull me in
      Pull me in
      Pull me in
      Pull me in

      OVO ovo ovo
      ovo ovo ovo
      ovo ovo ovo

      OVO ovo ovo
      ovo ovo ovo
      ovo ovo ovo

      Downside up
      Upside down
      Take my weight off the ground
      Falling deep in the sky
      Slipping into the unknown

    7. The Barry Williams Show

      Let's go

      One man at the window
      One girl at the bar
      Saw that look of recognition
      When they know just who you are
      I seen you on the tv
      I seen you on that show
      Where you make the people crazy
      And then you let them go

      Before the show we calm them
      We sympathise, we care
      And the hostile folk we keep apart
      'til the red light says 'on air
      Did you see our leather lovers
      All tied up to the chair
      Did you catch those child molesters
      No one else goes there

      What a show, the barry williams show
      What a show,
      Dysfunctional excess
      Is all it took for my success
      The greater pain that they endure
      The more you know the show has scored
      Its showtime

      Got the reputation of a surgeon
      Cos they cannot feel the cut
      It looks so very simple
      But it really is an art
      They call our studio 'the hospital'
      Making money from the sick
      We let people be themselves
      There is no other trick

      My lover stole my girlfriend
      I keep beating up my ex
      I want to kill my neighbour
      My daughter's selling sex

      My s/m lover hurt me
      My girl became a man
      I love my daughter's rapist
      My life's gone down the pan
      What a show, the barry williams show
      The barry williams show
      Dysfunctional excess
      Is all it took for my success
      And when the punches start to fly
      The ratings always read so high
      It's showtime

      That girl has got no scruples
      Not a wrinkle on her face
      You would not believe the plot she concieved
      So they'd let her take my place
      Well, no man is an island
      No man is a sea
      But this display of emotion
      Is all but drowning me

      What a show, oh what a show
      On my show, the barry williams show
      It's my show
      What a show
      Dysfunctional excess
      Is all it took for my success

      The best tv you ve ever seen
      Where people say the things they really mean
      I hear my name, i hear them roar
      For the one more time i take the floor
      Just one more barry williams show
      We re gonna take you where you want to go it s showtime

      Come on down
      Come on down

    8. More Than This

      I woke up and the world outside was dark
      All so quiet before the dawn
      Opened up the door and walked outside
      Ohe ground was cold

      I walked until i couldn t walk any more
      To a place i d never been
      There was something stirring in the air
      In front of me, i could see

      More than this
      More than this
      So much more than this
      There is something else there
      When all that you had has all gone
      And more than this
      I stand
      Feeling so connected
      And i m all there
      Right next to you

      It started when i saw the ship go down
      I saw them struggle in the sea
      And suddenly the picture disappears
      In front of me

      Now we re busy making all our busy plans
      On foundations built to last
      Out nothing fades as fast as the future
      And nothing clings like the past, until we can see

      More than this
      More than this
      So much more than this
      There is something out there
      More than this
      It's coming through
      And more than this
      I stand alone and so connected
      And i'm all there
      Right next to you

      Oh then it s alright
      When with every day another bit falls away
      Oh bus its still alright, alright, alright
      And like words together we can make some sense

      Much more than this
      Way beyond imagination
      Much more than this
      Beyond the stars
      With my head so full
      So full of fractured pictures
      And I'm all there
      Right next to you
      So much more than this
      There is something else there
      When all that you had has all gone
      And more than this
      I'm alone
      Feeling so connected
      And i m all there right next to you

      More than this
      More than this
      More than this
      More than this

    9. Mercy Street

      Looking down on empty streets, all she can see
      Are the dreams all made solid
      Are the dreams all made real

      All of the buildings, all of those cars
      Were once just a dream
      In somebody's head

      She pictures the broken glass, she pictures the steam
      She pictures a soul
      With no leak at the seam

      Let's take the boat out
      Wait until darkness
      Let's take the boat out
      Wait until darkness comes

      Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey
      Nowhere in the suburbs
      In the cold light of day

      There in the midst of it so alive and alone
      Words support like bone

      Dreaming of mercy st.
      Wear your inside out
      Dreaming of mercy
      In your daddy's arms again
      Dreaming of mercy st.
      'swear they moved that sign
      Dreaming of mercy
      In your daddy's arms

      Pulling out the papers from the drawers that slide smooth
      Tugging at the darkness, word upon word

      Confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box
      To the priest-he's the doctor
      He can handle the shocks

      Dreaming of the tenderness-the tremble in the hips
      Of kissing Mary's lips

      Dreaming of mercy st.
      Wear your insides out
      Dreaming of mercy
      In your daddy's arms again
      Dreaming of mercy st.
      'swear they moved that sign
      Looking for mercy
      In your daddy's arms

      Mercy, mercy, looking for mercy
      Mercy, mercy, looking for mercy

      Anne, with her father is out in the boat
      Riding the water
      Riding the waves on the sea

    10. Digging In The Dirt

      Something in me, dark and sticky
      All the time it's getting strong
      No way of dealing with this feeling
      Can't go on like this too long
    chorus:

    This time you've gone too far [x3]
    I told you [x4]
    This time you've gone too far [x3]
    I told you

    [x 4]
      Don't talk back
      Just drive the car
      Shut your mouth
      I know what you are
      Don't say nothing
      Keep your hands on the wheel
      Don't turn around

      This is for real
      Digging in the dirt
      Stay with me, I need support
      I'm digging in the dirt
      To find the places I got hurt
      Open up the places I got hurt

      The more I look, the more I find
      As I close on in, I get so blind
      I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes
      I feel it in my sex, that's the place it goes
    chorus
      I'm digging in the dirt
      Stay with me I need support
      I'm digging in the dirt
      To find the places I got hurt
      To open up the places I got hurt

      Digging in the dirt
      To find the places we got hurt

      [x 7]

    11. Growing Up

      Folded in your fleshy purse
      I am floating once again
      While the muted sounds are pumping rhythm
      All the walls close in on me
      Pressure s building wave on wave
      Till the water breaks - and outside i go, oh

      One dot, that's on or off, defines what is and what is not, one dot
      Two dot, a pair of eyes, a voice, a touch, complete surprise, two dot
      Growing up, growing up,
      Looking for a place to live
      Growing up, growing up,
      Looking for a place to live
      Growing up, growing up,
      Looking for a place to live

      My ghost likes to travel so far in the unknown
      My ghost likes to travel so deep into your space

      Three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe,
      Three dot
      Four dot, is what will make a square, a bed to build on, it s all there,
      Four dot

      My ghost likes to travel so far in the unknown
      My ghost likes to travel so deep into your space

      All the slow clouds pass us by
      Make the Empire State look high
      As you take me in your sea-stained sweetness
      It spills, it tingles and it stings
      All the pleasure that it brings
      'til the door has let the outside inside here

      Well on the floor there s a long wooden table
      On the table there s an open book
      On the page there s a detailed drawing
      And on the drawing is the name i took

      My ghost likes to travel so far in the unknown
      My ghost likes to travel so deep into your space

      Growing up, growing up,
      Looking for a place to live
      Growing up, growing up,
      Looking for a place to live
      Growing up, growing up,
      Looking for a place to live
      Growing up, growing up,
      Looking for a place to live

      My ghost likes to travel
      My ghost likes to travel
      Moving inside of your space
      My ghost likes to travel
      My ghost likes to travel
      Moving inside of your space
      My ghost likes to travel
      Moving inside
      My ghost likes to travel
      Moving Inside of your space
      My ghost likes to travel
      Moving inside
      My ghost likes to travel
      Moving inside of your space

      The breathing stops, i don t know when
      In transition once again
      Such a struggle getting through these changes
      And it all seems so absurd
      To be flying like a bird
      When I do not feel I've really landed here.

    12. Animal Nation

      I didn't meet you in the jungle
      Swinging from a tree
      I sat down at the piano
      You were playing with me
      I couldn't believe all the things you could do
      The apes I'd seen were in the zoo.

      They say we are unique with this language that we speak
      But you have proved them wrong.
      Skinner and Chomsky, how could they be so blind
      With evidence this strong?

      Intelligent life is all around us
      Intelligent life is all around us

      When you watch King Kong or The Planet of the Apes
      Upon your video screen
      When the animals die, tears fill your eye
      And you question what you've seen.

      Intelligent life is all around us
      Intelligent life is all around us

      Hey, bonobo woman
      Hey, bonobo man
      Look in your eyes
      That's where I come from.

      Hey, bonobo woman
      Hey, bonobo man
      Talk to me now
      I am listening.

      You can search the internet
      You can use your video phone
      To call another friend.
      If we gave you all the tools
      You can do whatever you want
      Who knows when this will end.

      Intelligent life is all around us

      Hey, bonobo woman
      Hey, bonobo man
      Look in your eyes
      That's where we come from

      Hey, bonobo woman
      Hey, bonobo man
      Talk to us now
      We are listening

      Starting to hear the things you've said
      Getting to know what's going on in your head
      There's no humans on the line
      But there'll be plenty more there in good time.
      Dolphins, cats, and elephants
      This is not some wild romance
      Just look in their eyes and say it's not true
      Look in their eyes, they're checking out you.

      Communication with the Animal Nation
      We are in communication with the Animal Nation
      We are in communication with the Animal Nation

    13. Solsbury Hill

      Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
      I could see the city light
      Wind was blowing, time stood still
      Eagle flew out of the night
      He was something to observe
      Came in close, I heard a voice
      Standing stretching every nerve
      Had to listen had no choice
      I did not believe the information
      [I] just had to trust imagination
      My heart going boom boom boom
      "Son," he said "Grab your things,
      I've come to take you home."

      To keepin' silence I resigned
      My friends would think I was a nut
      Turning water into wine
      Open doors would soon be shut
      So I went from day to day
      Tho' my life was in a rut
      "Till I thought of what I'd say
      Which connection I should cut
      I was feeling part of the scenery
      I walked right out of the machinery
      My heart going boom boom boom
      "Hey" he said "Grab your things
      I've come to take you home."

      [ Back home. ]

      When illusion spin her net
      I'm never where I want to be
      And liberty she pirouette
      When I think that I am free
      Watched by empty silhouettes
      Who close their eyes but still can see
      No on taught them etiquette
      I will show another me
      Today I don't need a replacement
      I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
      My heart going boom boom boom
      "Hey" I said "You can keep my things,
      they've come to take me home."

    14. Sledgehammer

      You could have a steam train
      If you'd just lay down your tracks
      You could have an aeroplane flying
      If you bring your blue sky back

      All you do is call me
      I'll be anything you need

      You could have a big dipper
      Going up and down, all around the bends
      You could have a bumper car, bumping
      The amusement never ends

      I want to be your sledgehammer
      Why don't you call my name
      Oh let me be your sledgehammer
      This will be my testimony

      Show me round your fruitcage
      'cause I will be your honey bee
      Open up your fruitcage
      Where the fruit is as sweet as can be

      I want to be your sledgehammer
      Why don't you call my name
      You'd better call the sledgehammer
      Put your mind at rest
      I'm going to be-the sledgehammer
      This can be my testimony
      I'm your sledgehammer
      Let there be no doubt about it

      Sledge sledge sledgehammer

      I've kicked the habit
      Shed my skin
      This is the new stuff
      I go dancing in, we go dancing in
      Oh won't you show for me
      And I will show for you
      Show for me, I will show for you
      Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you
      Only you
      You've been coming through
      Going to build that powerr
      Build, build up that power, hey
      I've been feeding the rhythm
      I've been feeding the rhythm
      Going to feel that power, build in you
      Come on, come on, help me do
      Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
      I've been feeding the rhythm
      I've been feeding the rhythm
      It's what we're doing, doing
      All day and night

    15. Signal To Noise

      You know the way that things go
      When what you fight for starts to fall
      And in that fuzzy picture
      He writing stands out on the wall
      So clearly on the wall

      Nusrat qwalli section

      Send out the signals deep and loud

      And in this place, can you reassure me
      With a touch, a smile - while the cradle’s burning
      All the while the world is turning to noise
      Oh the more that it’s surrounding us
      The more that it destroys
      Turn up the signal
      Wipe out the noise

      Nusrat qwalli section

      Send out the signal deep and loud

      Man I'm losing sound and sight
      Of all those who can tell me wrong from right
      When all things beautiful and bright
      Sink in the night
      Yet there's still something in my heart
      That can find a way
      To make a start
      To turn up the signal
      Wipe out the noise

      Wipe out the noise
      Wipe out the noise
      You know that's it
      You know that's it
      You know that's it
      Receive and transmit
      Receive and transmit
      Receive and transmit
      You know that's it
      You know that's it
      Receive and transmit
      You know that's it
      You know that's it
      Receive and transmit

    15. In Your Eyes

      Love I get so lost, sometimes
      Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
      When I want to run away
      I drive off in my car
      But whichever way I go
      I come back to the place you are

      All my instincts, they return
      And the grand facade, so soon will burn
      Without a noise, without my pride
      I reach out from the inside

      In your eyes
      The light the heat
      In your eyes
      I am complete
      In your eyes
      I see the doorway to a thousand churches
      In your eyes
      The resolution of all the fruitless searches
      In your eyes
      I see the light and the heat
      In your eyes
      Oh, I want to be that complete
      I want to touch the light
      The heat I see in your eyes

      Love, I don't like to see so much pain
      So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
      I get so tired of working so hard for out survival
      I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

      And all my instincts, they return
      And the grand facade, so soon will burn
      Without a noise, without my pride
      I reach out from the inside

      In your eyes
      The light the heat
      In your eyes
      I am complete
      In your eyes
      I see the doorway to a thousand churches
      In your eyes
      The resolution of all the fruitless searches
      In your eyes
      I see the light and the heat
      In your eyes
      Oh, I want to be that complete
      I want to touch the light,
      The heat I see in your eyes
      In your eyes in your eyes
      In your eyes in your eyes
      In your eyes in your eyes

    17. Father, Son

      Father, son
      Locked as one
      In this empty room
      Spine against spine
      Yours against mine
      Till the warmth comes through

      Remember the breakwaters down by the waves
      I first found my courage
      Knowing daddy could save
      I could hold back the tide
      With my dad by my side

      Dogs, plows and bows
      We move through each pose
      Struggling in our separate ways
      Mantras and hymns
      Unfolding limbs
      Looking for release through the pain

      And the yogi's eyes are open
      Looking up above
      He too is dreaming of his daddy's love
      With his dad by his side
      Got his dad by his side

      Can you recall
      How you took me to school
      We couldn't talk much at all
      It's been so many years
      And now these tears
      Guess I'm still your child

      Out on the moors
      We take a pause
      See how far we have come
      You're moving quite slow
      How far can we go
      Father and son

      With my dad by my side
      With my dad by my side
      Got my dad by my side
      With me