Genesis - Blood on the Rooftops

Dark and grey, an English film, the Wednesday Play
We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day
Won't you stay?

Though your eyes see shipwrecked sailors you're still dry
The outlook's fine though Wales might have some rain
Saved again.

Let's skip the news boy (I'll make some tea)
The Arabs and the Jews boy (too much for me)
They get me confused boy (puts me off to sleep)
And the thing I hate - Oh Lord!
Is staying up late, to watch some debate, on some nation's fate.

Hypnotised by Batman, Tarzan, still surprised!
You've won the West in time to be our guest
Name your prize!

Drop of wine, a glass of beer dear what's the time?
The grime on the Tyne is mine all mine all mine
Five past nine.

Blood on the rooftops - Venice in the Spring
Streets of San Francisco - a word from Peking
The trouble was started - by a young Errol Flynn
Better in my day - Oh Lord!
For when we got bored, we'd have a world war, happy but poor

So let's skip the news boy (I'll go make that tea)
Blood on the rooftops (too much for me)
When old Mother Goose stops - they're out for 23
Then the rain at Lords stopped play
Seems Helen of Troy has found a new face again.

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[9johnevans]

53 ? I will be 70 in September and I adore this one , along with many other Genesis and Steve Hackett songs . This is music which ranks in quality with anything else written and/or played by anyone over the last five hundred years !

This one has a haunting charm that lasts and lasts.

[ThomasHarrower]

@sindylindywindy i love this and i'm only 15

[1176Lucius]

@btom22259 Banks-Hackett! Once Steve left a great chasm of class left, which, after Duke was glaringly obvious, when they were for a while, the Phil Collins band with far inferior stuff

[GriefTourist]

We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day

[insideout805]

this was there best cd

[insideout805]

it was banks

[insideout805]

another classic

[rutt777]

so england.....

[btom22259]

Now i know who was genesis: it was hackett!

[40davros]

great stuff

[Knowledge1958]

Put a smile on my face they you youngsters like this. If you research History and the TV shows around in the mid 70's when this was made you'll find the things mentioned. The Streets of San Francisco was a cop drama. The Arab Israeli war. And as for the last part… Was a joke on a comedy program, Helen of Troy the face that launched a 1000 ships, and she turns and it’s all battered bruised as if they’d used her instead of a bottle of champagne… Hence ‘Found a new face’

[gazmanc1]

@9johnevans Well said my friend.. :)