Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Family And The Fishing Net , by - Peter Gabriel. Release date: 06.09.1982
Song language: English
The Family And The Fishing Net |
| Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams |
| Her honey belly pulls the seams |
| Curves are still upon the hinge |
| Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin |
| Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night |
| The sponge is full, well out of sight |
| All around the conversations |
| Icing on the warm flesh cake |
| Light creeps through her secret tunnels |
| Sucked into the open spaces |
| Burning out in sudden flashes |
| Draining blood from well-fed faces |
| Desires form in subtle whispers |
| Flex the muscles in denial |
| Up and down its pristine cage |
| So the music, so the trial |
| Vows of sacrifice, headless chickens |
| Dance in circles, they the blessed |
| Man and wife, undressed by all |
| Their grafted trunks in heat possessed |
| Even as the soft skins tingle |
| They mingle with the homeless mother |
| Who loves the day but lives another |
| That once was hers |
| The worried father, long lost lover |
| Brushes ashes with his broom |
| Rehearses jokes to fly and hover |
| Bursting over the bride and groom |
| And the talk goes on |
| Memories crash on tireless waves |
| The lifeguards whom the winter saves |
| Silence falls the guillotine |
| All the doors are shut |
| Nervous hands grip tight the knife |
| In the darkness, till the cake is cut |
| Passed around, in little pieces |
| The body and the flesh |
| The family and the fishing-net |
| And another in the mesh |
| The body and the flesh |