Peter Gabriel — The Family and the Fishing Net Live Athens 1987

[Verse 1] Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams Her honey belly pulls the seams The curves are stiff upon the hinge Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin [Verse 2] Moist as grass, ripe and heavy is the night The sponge is full, well out of sight All around the conversations Icing on the warm flesh cake [Verse 3] Light creeps through her secret tunnels Sucked into the open spaces Burning out in sudden flashes Draining blood from well-fed faces [Interlude] [Verse 4] Desire forms in subtle whispers Flex the muscles in denial Up and down its pristine cage So the music, so the trial [Chorus 1] Vows of sacrifice, vows of sacrifice Headless chickens, headless chickens Dance in circles, dance in circles They the blessed Man and wife, undressed by all Their grafted trunks in heat possessed [Interlude] [Verse 5] Even as the soft skins tingle They mingle with the homeless mother Loves the day but lives another Once was hers [Verse 6] Worried father, long lost lover Brushes ashes with his broom Rehearses jokes to fly and hover Bursting over the bride and groom [Interlude] The talk goes on [Bridge] Memories crash on all the waves The lifeguards whom the winter saves Memories crash on all the waves The lifeguards whom the winter saves [Verse 7] Silence falls the guillotine All the doors are shut Nervous hands grip tight the knife In the darkness, 'til the cake is cut [Chorus 2] And passed around, cut and passed around In little pieces, in little pieces The body, the body and the flesh Family, family And the fishing net, and the fishing net Another, another Another in the mesh [Outro] The body and the flesh And the flesh