And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.
The Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their fun.
Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show,
It's the same old ending - time to go.
Get out!
It seems they cannot leave their dream.
There's something moving in the sidewalk steam,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
Nightime's flyers feel their pains.
Drugstore takes down the chains.
Metal motion comes in bursts,
But the gas station can quench that thirst.
Suspension cracked on unmade road
The trucker's eyes read 'Overload'
And out on the subway,
Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid
Exits into daylight, spraygun hid,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
The lamb seems right out of place,
Yet the Broadway street scene finds a focus in its face.
Somehow it's lying there,
Brings a stillness to the air.
Though man-made light, at night is very bright,
There's no whitewash victim,
As the neons dim, to the coat of white.
Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid,
Wipes his gun-he's forgotten what he did,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
Suzanne tired her work all done,
Thinks money-honey-be on-neon.
Cabman's velvet glove sounds the horn
And the sawdust king spits out his scorn.
Wonder women draw your blind!
Don't look at me! I'm not your kind.
I'm Rael!
Something inside me has just begun,
Lord knows what I have done,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
On Broadway-
They say the lights are always bright on Broadway.
They say there's always magic in the air.
| raga (Italy - Como) | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 23:32 Tonight The Musical Box in Milano playing the entire show: see you there! |
| Bargamon (Carolina) | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 10:38 This album has much filler in between the gems. Basically the concept was sloppy but the band was busting apart but it represents then at their best and worst. That said, "The Lamb" is still a wonderful album with so many great moments such as this iconic song |
| kaviksdad (Mission Control...) | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 10:22 No real comparison between the Gabriel and Collins versions of Genesis. PG Genesis was a progressive rock cornerstone that blended both audio and visual performances into a full scale theatrical production. They reached their peak with LLDOB - considered by many to be one of the finest "concept" albums of all time. PC Genesis started out as a washed-out version of the original, coming up with 2 tolerable albums (Trick & Wind) before plummeting into pop hell. |
| Bozo (Steeler Penguin Pirate land) | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 10:17 Baltimore Opera House: 1975: mesmerizing performance of Lamb: little did we know that the end was near. Humbly, I must say that I reviewed "Selling England by the Pound" for the Indiana (Pa) Penn in 1973. I gave it the great review it deserved and promptly went to the IUP theatre department, dressed up as a wizard and went to the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh to be mesmerized. Only the Beatles had as much of an effect on me as did early Genesis |
| goozer321 (Maidstone, Kent) | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 10:12 There are only 2 bands that make me want to smash things up - Genesis and The Who. Overrated twaddle with singers who can't sing or write . Shocking |
| Dav3thedog (Canberra) | Posted: Dec 25, 2012 - 18:39 Loved Genesis so much at this time! |
| ziakut (Slightly North of Obvlivion) | Posted: Nov 24, 2012 - 17:32 I like old Genesis, but I'm hearing Phil Collins and sadly...not impressed. |
| jktravl (Virginia) | Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 13:18 Palace Theater, Albany NY Window Pane. Most outstanding concert ever lived |
| Limpopoking (The Parish of St. Alfonzo) | Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 01:36 I can still taste the excitement when I drove to town to the "record shop" to buy this album shortly after it's release. And then Glynis... where are you Glynis? Wow, we had fun listening to Lamb Lies Down |
| frecko (Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe) | Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 01:30 A really good one ! |
| JeffGuyett (Pullman WA) | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 15:38 This Old School Genesis gives me the taste of Tactical Nuclear Penguin in the back of my throat. Which is both a good & not so good taste... |
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Jun 20, 2012 - 03:55 romeotuma wrote: This is a beautiful and poignant song about hallucinations on an acid trip... I can't say that I ever heard that before, but I was indeed tripping when I saw this performed live in a small hall here in Cleveland back in the day. This album has one of my favorite closers of all time, the Rapids / It. Always makes me smile ... it is only rock n roll but I like it. |
| Bobert_ParkCity (Park City Utah) | Posted: May 19, 2012 - 08:46 New York is the 70's was a gritty,nasty brutish, filthy and awesome place, and somehow this song always brings it all back for me. Genesis's peak. |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 10:10 romeotuma wrote: This is a beautiful and poignant song about hallucinations on an acid trip... Where did you read/hear that? |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 10:09 Phlegmaticman wrote: My cassette copy of this album: toast. My vinyl copy: extremely well worn. They have CDs nowadays! Plus, at the Wolfgang's Vault website, you can listen to the 1975 L.A. Shrine Theater performance of The Lamb uncut! |
| dougmbrown (Denver) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 10:01 Oh, for the early days of Genesis, the period after the misguided "From Genesis to to Revelation" on Decca (Moody Blues sound-alike anyone?) through the final performances Peter Gabriel made performing "Lamb Lies Down" as he separate from the group. I enjoyed the seeing Peter's performance in Lamb after enjoying prior years of over-the-top music/stagecraft from Charisma: "Trespass," "Nursery Crymes," "Foxtrot," and Selling England by the Pound." Ah, the early seventies were fun for pretentious rock: I miss 'em. (Yeah Bill, I know I have to upload some of this dated vinyl.) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 10:00 This is a beautiful and poignant song about hallucinations on an acid trip... |
| Phlegmaticman (270 miles south of Paradise, CA) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 09:55 My cassette copy of this album: toast. My vinyl copy: extremely well worn. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 15:38 KevinM wrote: 1967-1974 (7-Years) Genesis w/ Gabriel 1975-1996 (21-Years) Genesis w/ Collins I'm not sure what your definition of obscurity is ... if they were in the Miami Vice soundtracks. |
| Stingray (NWO reloaded) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 15:36 Unfortunately a not-so-good last album of a once great band (as long as PG was part of it, of course) |
| Alafia (the new east wing) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 15:35 lemmoth wrote: As the other fellow said, "obscurity" is so the wrong word. "pure pop pablum" would be an appropriate substiitute. Though, Trick of the Tail, and Wind and Wuthering weren't bad albums... |
| Alafia (the new east wing) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 15:32 The old Genesis stuff always makes me perk my ears up and head for the rating page. A solid 9. |
| cosmiclint (Vancouver BC) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 10:01 1wolfy wrote: Fly on a windshield is a winner as well 5. MinMan wrote: Bill & Rebecca - for a little more raw energy from this album; please play "Back in NYC" sometime. This selection is maybe the most tame tune on the album. Neither of these songs is curently in the library, so Bill & Rebecca can not play them. But you can help: follow the guidelines for how to rip a track in the quality Bill needs it to be in, upload it, then participate in the LRC so you can vote for it when it comes up. |
| jules44 (Sunny North Carolina) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 09:18 Dalebarely wrote: Thats not really fair. You may not like the direction the band took after PG left, but they became orders of magnitude bigger. Genesis 10 -12 years into the 'Phil Collins Show' was one of the most popular, arena-filling rock bands in the world So...Obscurity? I dont think so However, I think that the PG era - and up to Trick of the Tail and Wind and the Withering WILL stand up to the test of time, but the later arena filling mass appeal work will just seem silly. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 09:15 MiracleDrug wrote: THE best Genesis song...album...lineup... Peter's growth as a TRUE artist post Lamb needs no explanation... Genesis's devolution into the Phil Collins Show explains their inevitable slide into obscurity... As the other fellow said, "obscurity" is so the wrong word. "pure pop pablum" would be an appropriate substiitute. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 09:14 LSD flashback! What a classic! Love it! |
| mcYammer (Beervana) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 09:13 RAEL imperial aerosol kid!!!! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 22:44 I'll dance to this... |
| Mita (Santa Fe, NM) | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:55 Maybe I'd like to hear both! Dalebarely wrote: PG was gone by A Trick of the Tail, dude |
| KevinM (Long Beach, Ca) | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:48 MiracleDrug wrote: THE best Genesis song...album...lineup... Peter's growth as a TRUE artist post Lamb needs no explanation... Genesis's devolution into the Phil Collins Show explains their inevitable slide into obscurity... 1967-1974 (7-Years) Genesis w/ Gabriel 1975-1996 (21-Years) Genesis w/ Collins I'm not sure what your definition of obscurity is |
| Dalebarely | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:48 Dalebarely wrote: PG was gone by A Trick of the Tail, dude Would love to hear Dance on a Volcano right now though |
| Dalebarely | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:47 Mita wrote: More Peter Gabriel Genesis! A Trick of the Tail!!! PG was gone by A Trick of the Tail, dude |
| KevinM (Long Beach, Ca) | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:46 Mita wrote: More Peter Gabriel Genesis! A Trick of the Tail!!! Um... A Trick of the Tail was PC, not PG |
| Dalebarely | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:46 MiracleDrug wrote: THE best Genesis song...album...lineup... Peter's growth as a TRUE artist post Lamb needs no explanation... Genesis's devolution into the Phil Collins Show explains their inevitable slide into obscurity... Thats not really fair. You may not like the direction the band took after PG left, but they became orders of magnitude bigger. Genesis 10 -12 years into the 'Phil Collins Show' was one of the most popular, arena-filling rock bands in the world So...Obscurity? I dont think so |
| Mita (Santa Fe, NM) | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:45 More Peter Gabriel Genesis! A Trick of the Tail!!! |
| (former member) | Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 13:42 MiracleDrug wrote: THE best Genesis song...album...lineup... Peter's growth as a TRUE artist post Lamb needs no explanation... Genesis's devolution into the Phil Collins Show explains their inevitable slide into obscurity... Uh, you might want to rethink that part. |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Jul 08, 2011 - 04:55 THE best Genesis song...album...lineup... Peter's growth as a TRUE artist post Lamb needs no explanation... Genesis's devolution into the Phil Collins Show explains their inevitable slide into obscurity... |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Jun 06, 2011 - 13:32 Fly on a windshield is a winner as well 5. MinMan wrote: Bill & Rebecca - for a little more raw energy from this album; please play "Back in NYC" sometime. This selection is maybe the most tame tune on the album. |
| (former member) | Posted: Jun 06, 2011 - 13:23 tprimeau wrote: IS one hell of a drummer, not was. Sorry, but was. He can't play any more. And it's a little worse that that: Collins, who is now 60, lives alone in Switzerland and joked about going "on a mysterious biking holiday and never return |
| manonfortini (Québec, Canada) | Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 07:50 I was sure this is was Marillion |
| fingerpin (oHIo) | Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 07:48 mvanderford60 wrote: Idiots. Rael is dead. it is a song about death. Lamb - death- sacrifice — did you people ever study literature? Well, I see it's done wonders for you. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 20:36 unclehud wrote: That explains it! For years, this left-brained engineer got stuck with, "If a lamb lay down on Broadway, it would get sooooo run over." Thanks romeotuma, for enlightenment; I'll search for lyrics after work and seek the proverbial flashback. You're welcome... this song gives me flashbacks, too! |
| Monkeysdad (Dothan, ALABAMA) | Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 20:33 unclehud wrote: That explains it! For years, this left-brained engineer got stuck with, "If a lamb lay down on Broadway, it would get sooooo run over." Thanks romeotuma, for enlightenment; I'll search for lyrics after work and seek the proverbial flashback. Thank YOU! |
| kayc | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 13:07 romeotuma wrote: Peter Gabriel's great song about an LSD trip... love it... Huh!? I dont THINK so! |
| mvanderford60 | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 13:03 Idiots. Rael is dead. it is a song about death. Lamb - death- sacrifice — did you people ever study literature? |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 13:00 romeotuma wrote: Peter Gabriel's great song about an LSD trip... love it... That explains it! For years, this left-brained engineer got stuck with, "If a lamb lay down on Broadway, it would get sooooo run over." Thanks romeotuma, for enlightenment; I'll search for lyrics after work and seek the proverbial flashback. |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 13:00 It has a good bleat, and you can dance to it. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 12:58 robco1 wrote: Don't look at me I'm not your kind I'm Rael! Oh raelly? |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Dec 31, 2010 - 14:57 ![]() gabriel by earbender John Rosenfelder http://www.flickr.com/photos/earbender/ This photo was taken on March 5, 2010. . |
| Pharlap (Bahama, NC) | Posted: Nov 29, 2010 - 13:23 my favorite cut on their best lp. Thanks |

Plus, at the Wolfgang's Vault website, you can listen to the 1975 L.A. Shrine Theater performance of The Lamb uncut!
