Driving home from hospital after my father died, this came on the radio. I sang the chorus at the top of my voice whilst trying to keep the tears from blinding me. Listening again, 10 years later the tears are flowing.
I was just a kid in the 70's when I remember my brother's would play their Genesis album's. Back then I didn't appreciate what I was hearing. Nearly 50 years later I totally get the genius of Genesis. Went to see them with my daughter at the O2 in London . One of their last concerts. That night will stay with me forever .
Same i would sit on stairs as my brothers got ready to go out! Lost my second oldest 2 years ago played Christopher Cross sailing at his funeral memories came flooding back! 💔 So blessed they introduced me to some classic brilliant forever memorable music. R.I.P Big Bro miss you always love you forever.💝
I don't know how many times i heard this lp. Ok, Peter left, it's true, but even without him Genesis did great songs....like this one, for example. They've been with me during my youth and they still are. and what about he magic touch of Steve on the strings of his Gibson ?? And what about the last phrase of the bass at the end of the song ??
@@walterpoluzzi9846 Steve Hackett leaving the band had more an effect of the musical direction they took afterwards than Peter Gabriel leaving the band. He joined Genesis as an already classically trained guitarist.
I'm working on uni assignments in my study, listening to a random playlist online not really hearing anything. Then the guitar of this started to worm its way into my consciousness before the chorus opened the door fully. I found myself listening, still typing, wondering how I haven't heard it before, then the double chorus and the instrumental, and I stopped typing. Stop the song and take it back to the beginning. Eyes closed, listening properly and wondering how I haven't felt this song before. It's barely finished and I am replaying it again, and again. A rolling, reeling, feeling of pain and pleasure and love, caressing and hitting like steel and silk, building with the chorus making me want to shout sing along though I don't know the words and tears streaming down my face.
I was 19 when this came out, I thought how sad it was that time takes away our youth; I pondered on that thought for a few minutes, and then in true 19 year old fashion I let it go......and here I am, 65 in August. :) this whole album is a masterpiece btw.
excelente comentario amigo y es que Génesis es una mezcla de genialidad magia encanto es un grupo tan increíble que nunca habrán suficiente palabras para descr
excelente comentario y es que Génesis es un fenómeno indescriptible no solo es la mejor banda de la historia eso todos los sabemos es que su música esas fabulosas letras plagadas de lírica poesía filosofía es de una excelencia de otra galaxia es realmente escalofriante en el mejor sentido de la palabra como estos chicos con aquella juventud hicieron obras de arte de una facturación elaboración y complejidad que aunque pasen mil años más no dejará de asombrar al mundo entero
Was sind wir doch für gefühlvolle Geschöpfe. Diese Musik verbindet Menschen aller Nationen miteinander. Danke, dass ich das jetzt mit euch allen hier erleben darf. 🙏💖
Eines der emotionalsten Lieder der Gruppe Genesis,besonders gesungen von Phil Collins.Als 2017 mein Vater verstarb hörte ich dieses Lied rauf und runter.Als 2003 meine Mutter ging und wir uns Weihnachten noch trafen,sie mir Ihre eigene Krankheit zeigte und mir bewusst wurde das meine Mutter sozusagen am gehen war, war es wie mein eigenes Sterben....und ich war des öfteren schon auf der anderem Ebene und bin wieder und wieder reanimiert worden.....leider verstarb meine Mutter dann auch einen Monat später....Ich kann nach jetzt fast 70 Lebensjahren behaupten,das der Sinn des Lebens darin besteht, auf die eigene Art und Weise glücklich zu weden und genau dieses Glück weiter zu geben in seiner reinsten Art ....... Dieses Lied von Genesis ist für mich eine bleibende Erinnerung an meine Menschen,die vor mir gingen❤❤❤🥀🥀🥀 Euch allen wünsche ich viel,viel Kraft!!!
Phil already showed how great a vocalist he was with more fool me in 73. But this song really nailed that fact home and it really helped Phils confidence. Not to mention that Hacketts guitar play in this song is amazing.
Can I just say Dayrl Stuermer has always been a great guitarist in his own right and filled many past Genesis guitarists with distinction and better. Like Chester Thompson they have helped bring longevity to an amazing band .
I still wonder sometimes if they'd been allowed to join Genesis after We Can't Dance like they wanted to, Calling All Stations may have ended up differently.
I remember seeing seeing this on the whistle test just before they released the trick album. And I thought- oh wonderful, we've got our genesis back. This song has every bit of classic genesis that the lamb didn't have- romanticism, extended instrumental passages, yearning beauty, 12 string guitars and a big big anthemic chorus. Genius playing from Steve too.
I love this too but TOTT was just completely different than TLLDOB. I have faves on both. And considering this was the first album post-Gabriel, I’m not sure I understand the “we’ve got our Genesis back” comment. TOTT was very different from everything that came before it, as earlier albums featured very few Collins numbers while Collins’ influence is all over TOTT. More Fool Me on SEBTP, certainly. And For Absent Friends in Nursery Cryme. But the rest of those albums are surely much more like TLLDOB than TOTT.
@@LeoDragon34 I was 14 years old when I saw this video in 1976, I'm describing how I felt at the time. I had seen the lamb live the previous year at the age of 13 and was disappointed even at that age that genesis seemed to be dropping some of the romantic, strange , english 12 string stuff in favour of a harder american edge as well as abandoning their back catalogue to re invent the band for the mid 70s. It really seemed at the time to me like they would never play cinema show and suppers ready again and there was a good chance in my young mind that they would opt for more short songs with a straight rock feel. So when I heard ripples with its grandiose chorus, beautiful extended instrumental passage and 12 string guitars, I was overjoyed as this was the genesis i loved and thought was gone for good.
Genesis was a dictatorship ruled by Banks. If one thing another member did and he did not like he would conspire against it, and that's why he left. Blame Banks for most shitty decisions in the band.
The musicianship is stunning on this track ; Hackett's weeping guitar in the middle section with Bank's understated but lyrical piano sitting underneath and the beautifully sparse acoustic texture in the verse underneath Phil's inspired vocal line. One of the band's finest moments.
I bought this album in 1976 and have just returned to it. It’s perfect. Nothing in all it’s magnificence doesn’t entrance and move one to tears. I believe this was the first album where Phil Collins was lead singer after the departure of Peter Gabriel. A seamless takeover.
I sit alone on Malham Tarn week in week out listening to this beautiful song. My partner who I married on her deathbed, starved to death, didn't know Genesis at all. I grew up with their wonderful music in a boarding school with many Italians who adored the group. This song reminds me of my Mouse ( Gruffalo & the Mouse ) her deep blue freckled eyes and her smile. No longer do I sleep, as nightmares haunt the pitiful few minutes I doze. Thus I walk night for night listening to this haunting beautiful song with tears freezing on my skin.
Gordon Banks.. Keyboards Mellotron.. Martin Peters.. Lead guitar.. Bobby Moore.. Bass and rhythm guitar.. Bobby Charlton.. Drums n percussion.. Vocals. Best English players of their generation.
Hi, Edward! Sorry, mate, but I think there are a few too many US peeps on RUclips for your footie wit to be appreciated. So here's a special, extra squishy Elli hug and kiss from a fellow Brit. ♥️♥️
Me pegó el año 78 en la frente !! Hermosos momentos vividos en aquellos días !! Recuerdos de un 128 verde y un pasacasett días nublados y de lluvia en Santos lugares y palomar !! Puta madre cuántos baños pasaron !! Hasta un rostro trajo a mí mente Marita, que Bella sos!! Cómo extraño esos felices días !! Cómo pasó el tiempo!! Dios mio!!!
I saw this on whistle test, pre rewind or record on sky, and pre internet and pre release of Trick of the Tail. Armed with memories of this unknown magical track in head, I boarded a train from Dewsbury to HMV in Leeds. I would love to be a fly on the wall in 76 in HMV, and watch myself singing the hook of this song over and over to staff. After around half an hour, a few giggles, and thumbing of their music books, we were all beat. They couldn’t find any genesis record called SAIL AWAY. Happy days
Such an excrutiatingly beautiful song. As I have become an old (er) man & I look back on the people I grown up and aged with, the more poignant it becomes. Brings a tear to my eye every time I listen to it. Phil's vocals on this convinced me he was the best replacement for Peter.
The song i love the most from this band. Very deep and touching. Theres no songs in these day cappable to makes us put in touch with ourselves and inmediatly . Those days are gonne, but the real music remaims .
Incarcerated in an all boys boarding school in the 70s... This one stuck out always as good medicine... It just transports me straight back through some strange and hauntingly beautiful portal.
Blue girls come in every size Some are wise and some otherwise, They got pretty blue eyes. For an hour a man may change For an hour her face looks strange - Looks strange, looks strange. Marching to the promised land Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand, Pulls you down on your knees, While you're down a pool appears. The face in the water looks up, And she shakes her head as if to say That it's the last time you'll look like today. Sail away, away Ripples never come back. Gone to the other side. Sail away, away. The face that launched a thousand ships Is sinking fast, that happens you know, The water gets below. Seems not very long ago Lovelier she was than any that I know. Angels never know it's time To close the book and gracefully decline, The song has found a tale. My, what a jealous pool is she. The face in the water looks up She shakes her head as if to say That the blue girls have all gone away. Sail away, away Ripples never come back. They've gone to the other side. Look into the pool, Ripples never come back, Dive to the bottom and go to the top To see where they have gone Oh, they've gone to the other side... Sail away, away Ripples never come back. Gone to the other side. Look into the pool, The ripples never come back, come back, Dive to the bottom and go to the top To see where they have gone They've gone to the other side
I was thinking this. I have many friends that see Genesis as pompous prog-rock - but it's more akin to classical than rock, and should be judged for its beauty. It's not there to challenge the status quo (no pun intended!) and to take on The Man.
... one of the earliest and very few music videos ever broadcasted in my country (Colombia) when we still had only black & white television ... loved it ever since ... ´cause I learned who was the man (crush) who sang : the entire album : .... "and then there were three" ....
Gdy miałam 17 lat bardzo chciałam słuchać Genesis ale nie bardzo było jak. Jeden teledysk Colinsa w tv i kilka utworów Genesis w radiowej Trójce. Gdy weszły CD uzbierałam po trochu wszystkie albumy. :)
I will have this at my funeral, makes me well up every time I hear it and always has done since the album release all those years ago, thank you Genesis.
When you converse with people about music and it's structure. They assume bands such as Sabbath, Zeppelin, Yes and Genesis as heavy metal. They think it's all thrash bash. These band all right beautiful songs, This example is as typical as the Carpet crawlers, or Yes , The turn of the century, then the Zeppelin with the The rain song. all beautiful songs all have a great message and there is many more. I feel every emotional turn of this song. It wraps your senses around you to focus at a moment in time .RIP, Peace and Love to all.Kevin
... me too .... especially this masterpiece ... very alike many of Cat Stevens ... these young fellows were fallen angels ... like Jon Anderson too ...
with his solo steve hacket made us know what its like hearing an angel vocalizing, but overall this is the ultimate prog rock masterpiece the chorus melody and also banks solo are their peaks as a band
Haven't heard this for a while. Special song. Love it. The sort of Genesis song I could see myself singing if I had the voice. I would really like to try, even now all these years later. I would probably cry singing it. I'd like to. I'd want to.
The most beautiful song ever written. And Genesis were indisputably the best musicians that ever walked on this planet until they decided to go totally commercial in 1980. Then it was music for the man in the street. So sad. 😢 😢 😢
Driving home from hospital after my father died, this came on the radio. I sang the chorus at the top of my voice whilst trying to keep the tears from blinding me. Listening again, 10 years later the tears are flowing.
🥺🥺🥺
... ('bless) ! x
I'm sorry for your loss.
Mi dispiace.
I hear you.
I was just a kid in the 70's when I remember my brother's would play their Genesis album's. Back then I didn't appreciate what I was hearing. Nearly 50 years later I totally get the genius of Genesis. Went to see them with my daughter at the O2 in London . One of their last concerts. That night will stay with me forever .
Same i would sit on stairs as my brothers got ready to go out! Lost my second oldest 2 years ago played Christopher Cross sailing at his funeral memories came flooding back! 💔 So blessed they introduced me to some classic brilliant forever memorable music. R.I.P Big Bro miss you always love you forever.💝
I feel sorry for the people that growed up without listening Genesis
me too
Genesis is my life. Most beautiful song that makes me shiver every time. These boys are magical.
I don't know how many times i heard this lp. Ok, Peter left, it's true, but even without him Genesis did great songs....like this one, for example.
They've been with me during my youth and they still are.
and what about he magic touch of Steve on the strings of his Gibson ?? And what about the last phrase of the bass at the end of the song ??
Totally agree with you.
Mine too
@@walterpoluzzi9846 Steve Hackett leaving the band had more an effect of the musical direction they took afterwards than Peter Gabriel leaving the band. He joined Genesis as an already classically trained guitarist.
Ripples 🌈
I'm working on uni assignments in my study, listening to a random playlist online not really hearing anything. Then the guitar of this started to worm its way into my consciousness before the chorus opened the door fully. I found myself listening, still typing, wondering how I haven't heard it before, then the double chorus and the instrumental, and I stopped typing. Stop the song and take it back to the beginning. Eyes closed, listening properly and wondering how I haven't felt this song before. It's barely finished and I am replaying it again, and again. A rolling, reeling, feeling of pain and pleasure and love, caressing and hitting like steel and silk, building with the chorus making me want to shout sing along though I don't know the words and tears streaming down my face.
Literally the same happened to me when I first heard this song. Steve Hackett's guitar solo from 4:24 is astonishing too
Musik zu hören, die man einst geliebt hat, ist wie einen alten Freund zu treffen. Danke Genesis!
Genesis produced some of the most beautiful songs in rock and this is one of the many they did.
Trick of the tail and wind and wuthering are masterpieces , this is real music
Maybie the two greatests albums of all times.
I LOVE ❤️’Trick of the tail’ 🎵🎵
ALWAYS reminds me of 1976!!
But equally I love 💕 other Genesis songs too!!!
Steve Hackett's guitar it's hypnotic. Just perfect.
Steve with his "guitar solo reverse" is an authentic Master of Prog Rock.
@Tony Bryan TB-Drones true, but he is a sacred icon of Prog lovers! We love Steve!
Saw him last month.
One of the most haunting and beautiful, heartbreaking melodies I've ever heard. I could weep for days.
I was 19 when this came out, I thought how sad it was that time takes away our youth; I pondered on that thought for a few minutes, and then in true 19 year old fashion I let it go......and here I am, 65 in August. :) this whole album is a masterpiece btw.
excelente comentario amigo y es que Génesis es una mezcla de genialidad magia encanto es un grupo tan increíble que nunca habrán suficiente palabras para descr
If more men could sit down together and work out a beautiful piece of art like these guys did, we would have fewer wars..
.... agree ... I never stop thinking & saying your idea ... good point sir ... many thanks ...
agree , no division but a reunion
excelente comentario y es que Génesis es un fenómeno indescriptible no solo es la mejor banda de la historia eso todos los sabemos es que su música esas fabulosas letras plagadas de lírica poesía filosofía es de una excelencia de otra galaxia es realmente escalofriante en el mejor sentido de la palabra como estos chicos con aquella juventud hicieron obras de arte de una facturación elaboración y complejidad que aunque pasen mil años más no dejará de asombrar al mundo entero
who tf is cutting onions in here?
it's impossible not to cry, gosh it gives me goosebumps.
shit I've even cried infront off my mates to this . pukka song 🎵
Was sind wir doch für gefühlvolle Geschöpfe. Diese Musik verbindet Menschen aller Nationen miteinander. Danke, dass ich das jetzt mit euch allen hier erleben darf. 🙏💖
Best wishes from Brazil!
One of the most beautiful ballads of Genesis. The middle instrumental section sound lyrical to me even without words.
Back then it was possible that in the middle of a song time was taken for more elaboration and depth.
The middle section always conjures up castles and medieval times to me, several genesis passages do that with me .
This was probably their best album...they were never the same after Steve Hackett left.
Eines der emotionalsten Lieder der Gruppe Genesis,besonders gesungen von Phil Collins.Als 2017 mein Vater verstarb hörte ich dieses Lied rauf und runter.Als 2003 meine Mutter ging und wir uns Weihnachten noch trafen,sie mir Ihre eigene Krankheit zeigte und mir bewusst wurde das meine Mutter sozusagen am gehen war, war es wie mein eigenes Sterben....und ich war des öfteren schon auf der anderem Ebene und bin wieder und wieder reanimiert worden.....leider verstarb meine Mutter dann auch einen Monat später....Ich kann nach jetzt fast 70 Lebensjahren behaupten,das der Sinn des Lebens darin besteht, auf die eigene Art und Weise glücklich zu weden und genau dieses Glück weiter zu geben in seiner reinsten Art ....... Dieses Lied von Genesis ist für mich eine bleibende Erinnerung an meine Menschen,die vor mir gingen❤❤❤🥀🥀🥀 Euch allen wünsche ich viel,viel Kraft!!!
Phil already showed how great a vocalist he was with more fool me in 73. But this song really nailed that fact home and it really helped Phils confidence. Not to mention that Hacketts guitar play in this song is amazing.
His Genesis vocal debut was on Nursery Chryme with For Absent Friends.
Sparkledash1 so spot on mate with those comments: more fool me is Phil singing his best. So sorry Hackett left Genesis
Gosh yes!!! 👍
Genesis is not a Band, Genesis is a Part of Living. And if a lot of Poeple live like the Songs, we are in Peace.
My go to place when I switch off in a little corner. Headphones on and just wash away on a ripple .
One of life's greatest pleasure in music .❤
Can I just say Dayrl Stuermer has always been a great guitarist in his own right and filled many past Genesis guitarists with distinction and better.
Like Chester Thompson they have helped bring longevity to an amazing band .
I still wonder sometimes if they'd been allowed to join Genesis after We Can't Dance like they wanted to, Calling All Stations may have ended up differently.
I remember seeing seeing this on the whistle test just before they released the trick album. And I thought- oh wonderful, we've got our genesis back. This song has every bit of classic genesis that the lamb didn't have- romanticism, extended instrumental passages, yearning beauty, 12 string guitars and a big big anthemic chorus. Genius playing from Steve too.
Wow that going back old whistle test. They are geniuses. May god Phil lives a few more years.
tis great,but lamb lies is brill.So many great tracks.
Agreed. Not that TLLDOB was a bad one, though... 😊
I love this too but TOTT was just completely different than TLLDOB. I have faves on both. And considering this was the first album post-Gabriel, I’m not sure I understand the “we’ve got our Genesis back” comment. TOTT was very different from everything that came before it, as earlier albums featured very few Collins numbers while Collins’ influence is all over TOTT. More Fool Me on SEBTP, certainly. And For Absent Friends in Nursery Cryme. But the rest of those albums are surely much more like TLLDOB than TOTT.
@@LeoDragon34 I was 14 years old when I saw this video in 1976, I'm describing how I felt at the time. I had seen the lamb live the previous year at the age of 13 and was disappointed even at that age that genesis seemed to be dropping some of the romantic, strange , english 12 string stuff in favour of a harder american edge as well as abandoning their back catalogue to re invent the band for the mid 70s. It really seemed at the time to me like they would never play cinema show and suppers ready again and there was a good chance in my young mind that they would opt for more short songs with a straight rock feel. So when I heard ripples with its grandiose chorus, beautiful extended instrumental passage and 12 string guitars, I was overjoyed as this was the genesis i loved and thought was gone for good.
absolutely amazing song from superb Genesis album "trick of the tail"
A trick of the tail is , for me, the best album of all times
The most beautiful song Ever!
Such a great masterpiece!!
Totalement d'accord avec vous.
Totally agree with you.
Banks & Hackett combo is definitely a power to be reckoned with! What a shame Steve left the band!
Genesis was a dictatorship ruled by Banks. If one thing another member did and he did not like he would conspire against it, and that's why he left.
Blame Banks for most shitty decisions in the band.
@@Rodrigombia1990 Yes. But we must recognize that Steve was too shy and totally the opposite of Ritchie Blackmore's personality for example.
Extraordinaire musique que j'écoute depuis 40 ans sans me lasser...
The musicianship is stunning on this track ; Hackett's weeping guitar in the middle section with Bank's understated but lyrical piano sitting underneath and the beautifully sparse acoustic texture in the verse underneath Phil's inspired vocal line. One of the band's finest moments.
The most beautiful song ever written.
Hackett makes guitar cry. Lovely solo from 4:25 , accompanied by Tony's trumpet-sounding synth
I do agree, this Is what I felt and I love more ❤️ thank you!
I bought this album in 1976 and have just returned to it. It’s perfect. Nothing in all it’s magnificence doesn’t entrance and move one to tears. I believe this was the first album where Phil Collins was lead singer after the departure of Peter Gabriel. A seamless takeover.
The talent, the melody, the feeling...
It's been said a million times before, but the interaction and harmony between Tony and Steve in the solo is unbelievable
Phil conquested my heart with this song
The greatest band with greatest mélodies and skilfullness
In my humble opinion, the song is a masterpiece as are many songs by Genesis
I totally agree. Also a great start for Phil's singing career.
Played this at my mums funeral and brings me to tears every time I hear it
I sit alone on Malham Tarn week in week out listening to this beautiful song. My partner who I married on her deathbed, starved to death, didn't know Genesis at all. I grew up with their wonderful music in a boarding school with many Italians who adored the group.
This song reminds me of my Mouse ( Gruffalo & the Mouse ) her deep blue freckled eyes and her smile.
No longer do I sleep, as nightmares haunt the pitiful few minutes I doze.
Thus I walk night for night listening to this haunting beautiful song with tears freezing on my skin.
Beautiful. Blessings to you.
Still get goosebumps when i listen to this song
Gordon Banks.. Keyboards Mellotron.. Martin Peters.. Lead guitar.. Bobby Moore.. Bass and rhythm guitar.. Bobby Charlton.. Drums n percussion.. Vocals. Best English players of their generation.
Hi, Edward! Sorry, mate, but I think there are a few too many US peeps on RUclips for your footie wit to be appreciated.
So here's a special, extra squishy Elli hug and kiss from a fellow Brit. ♥️♥️
didn't even know there was an official video for this. amazing track
Tony and Steve together are unbeatable.
I love this album and specially this track. It's so atmospheric and sublime...
Me pegó el año 78 en la frente !! Hermosos momentos vividos en aquellos días !! Recuerdos de un 128 verde y un pasacasett días nublados y de lluvia en Santos lugares y palomar !! Puta madre cuántos baños pasaron !! Hasta un rostro trajo a mí mente Marita, que Bella sos!! Cómo extraño esos felices días !! Cómo pasó el tiempo!! Dios mio!!!
Young men at the top of their game. A delight to see again. Sail Away
That s what music is made for
It makes you quiver ❤❤
Thank you Phil for what you've given to us all
So tragic that we may never see music to this level ever produced again. Perhaps in the after life, they may re form?
One of the most beautiful songs ever written and performed by musical god’s
Phil, you will never die...
He did...in the eighties. It was called Sussudio
This song is beautiful. I cry every time
Just let all flow Christiane welcome to the new world
I saw this on whistle test, pre rewind or record on sky, and pre internet and pre release of Trick of the Tail. Armed with memories of this unknown magical track in head, I boarded a train from Dewsbury to HMV in Leeds. I would love to be a fly on the wall in 76 in HMV, and watch myself singing the hook of this song over and over to staff. After around half an hour, a few giggles, and thumbing of their music books, we were all beat. They couldn’t find any genesis record called SAIL AWAY.
Happy days
One of the greatest songs recorded.
Was für ein wunderschönes, zauberhaftes Lied, Phil du grandioser, gefühlvoller Sänger, danke!🙏❤️
Cannot stop the hairs standing on the back of my neck. Paradise on record.
Such an excrutiatingly beautiful song. As I have become an old (er) man & I look back on the people I grown up and aged with, the more poignant it becomes. Brings a tear to my eye every time I listen to it. Phil's vocals on this convinced me he was the best replacement for Peter.
This and suppers ready are the best genesis musical outputs i have ever seen. Maple leaf gardens Toronto 1977. Our new Jerusalem.
Assisti a um show do Genesis, em São Paulo, Brasil, nos anos 70. Momento mágico... inesquecível !
A very lucky man you are
The song i love the most from this band. Very deep and touching. Theres no songs in these day cappable to makes us put in touch with ourselves and inmediatly .
Those days are gonne, but the real music remaims .
This is the real deal.
Truly immortal!!!
Não há uma só vez em que eu escute esta música e não fique emocionado... Música eterna!
From exactly 4:50 onward, that super emotional guitarsolo never fails to get my eyes teared up. Beautiful.
What a magical time.
Incarcerated in an all boys boarding school in the 70s... This one stuck out always as good medicine... It just transports me straight back through some strange and hauntingly beautiful portal.
Blue girls come in every size
Some are wise and some otherwise,
They got pretty blue eyes.
For an hour a man may change
For an hour her face looks strange -
Looks strange, looks strange.
Marching to the promised land
Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand,
Pulls you down on your knees,
While you're down a pool appears.
The face in the water looks up,
And she shakes her head as if to say
That it's the last time you'll look like today.
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Sail away, away.
The face that launched a thousand ships
Is sinking fast, that happens you know,
The water gets below.
Seems not very long ago
Lovelier she was than any that I know.
Angels never know it's time
To close the book and gracefully decline,
The song has found a tale.
My, what a jealous pool is she.
The face in the water looks up
She shakes her head as if to say
That the blue girls have all gone away.
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
They've gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
Ripples never come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
Oh, they've gone to the other side...
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
The ripples never come back, come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
They've gone to the other side
A lysergic
song indeed .
Steve fantastico
Eight minutes of bliss...
One of the best performed songs. Great singer is Phil Collins
This is the classical music of our era !!
I was thinking this. I have many friends that see Genesis as pompous prog-rock - but it's more akin to classical than rock, and should be judged for its beauty.
It's not there to challenge the status quo (no pun intended!) and to take on The Man.
The concert of my Life! The álbum of my Life!
... one of the earliest and very few music videos ever broadcasted in my country (Colombia) when we still had only black & white television ... loved it ever since ... ´cause I learned who was the man (crush) who sang : the entire album : .... "and then there were three" ....
Watching this on OGWT got me into Genesis. I thought it was such a beautiful song. Little did I realise how much stunning music it would lead me to.
The most beautyfull song from a very special album
I'm dreaming with this song, it's my life. Remarkable Phil. Genesis and Phil still THE BEST. Fabulous and Magical.
So great!!! Songs' all Mike and Tony's!!! Phils' voice was at its prime!! And of course Hackett's amazing guitar!!
It’s a bit sad that most people today don’t have the patience to discover a masterpiece like this
Quelle merveille !
Genesis est le plus grand groupe de pop progressive , ce n'est que mon avis personnel bien sûr.
Une merveille, je suis d'accord. Si Phil Collins avait gardé cette voix douce au lieu de la "FMiser" dans les 80's.
Jak miałem około 17 lat zacząłem słuchać Genesis.Teraz mam 52 i wciąż są dla mnie wzorem i najprawdziwszą muzyką . Piękną i wielką w swojej formie.
Gdy miałam 17 lat bardzo chciałam słuchać Genesis ale nie bardzo było jak. Jeden teledysk Colinsa w tv i kilka utworów Genesis w radiowej Trójce. Gdy weszły CD uzbierałam po trochu wszystkie albumy. :)
One of their best songs ever. In my head since 45 years.I keep it there. Asame with Mozart s "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
I "have" many musics from many bands!!! This is the ONE!!!
I will have this at my funeral, makes me well up every time I hear it and always has done since the album release all those years ago, thank you Genesis.
Probably my most loved song on Trick Of The Tail. I was only 20 years old in 1976 listening to it in a beautiful haze.
Das ist mehr wie Musik und Lyrik, das ist Magie, Zauber, Kraft, Weite, Mystik.
When you converse with people about music and it's structure. They assume bands such as Sabbath, Zeppelin, Yes and Genesis as heavy metal. They think it's all thrash bash. These band all right beautiful songs, This example is as typical as the Carpet crawlers, or Yes , The turn of the century, then the Zeppelin with the The rain song. all beautiful songs all have a great message and there is many more. I feel every emotional turn of this song. It wraps your senses around you to focus at a moment in time .RIP, Peace and Love to all.Kevin
What a superb singer Phil Collins has always been! When Peter Gabriel left, everybody won in the end.
Mon Dieu que c’est beau !
Entièrement d'accord.
Ripples est une chanson magnifique.
Um marco no Rock Progressivo , simplesmente lindo.
Like Gesus!!! 😍 😜💪 I love Phil and Genesis. The soundtrack of my life. Ever and forever 💜
... me too .... especially this masterpiece ... very alike many of Cat Stevens ... these young fellows were fallen angels ... like Jon Anderson too ...
with his solo steve hacket made us know what its like hearing an angel vocalizing, but overall this is the ultimate prog rock masterpiece the chorus melody and also banks solo are their peaks as a band
since 4.10 till 6.38 goosebumps
One of my favorite songs from this beautiful band ❤ Master Hackett, a legend! Respect.
Ésto es música!!! Hermoso!!! Aguante Génesis!!!
An adorable masterpiece, it triggers a lot of feelings.
Probably my favourite Genesis track
For eternity and beyond.
Such an amazing song! Words can't describe how good this is!
Totally agree with you. From France
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Ja es ist gut, gut für unsere Seele, unser Herz! ❤
This song always brings a tear to my eye. Such a beautiful song
Haven't heard this for a while. Special song. Love it. The sort of Genesis song I could see myself singing if I had the voice. I would really like to try, even now all these years later. I would probably cry singing it. I'd like to. I'd want to.
The very best song !
The most beautiful song ever written. And Genesis were indisputably the best musicians that ever walked on this planet until they decided to go totally commercial in 1980. Then it was music for the man in the street. So sad. 😢 😢 😢
I'm speechless, great song, reminds me love affair.
Phils voice in the 70's.....