Genesis - Mama (album original version with lyrics).mp4

" Our manager, when he first heard it, thought it was about abortion, the kind of feeling of the, you know, the fetus, if you like, saying to the Mother 'Please give me a chance, can't you feel my heart, don't take away my last chance', all those lyrics are in the song but in fact what it is, is just about a young teenager that's got a mother fixation with a prostitute that he's just happened to have met in passing and he has such a strong feeling for her and doesn't understand why she isn't interested in him. It's a bit like Niven in 'The Moon's a Balloon', I don't know if you've read that book, he's very young, just come out of cadet college or whatever, and he meets this quite, you know, 45 year old prostitute who he has a fantastic time with. He's special to her but it definitely can't go any further than what it is and that's really what the song is about, with sinister overtones. "

—Phil Collins

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• NOT Psychedelic
• Phill Collins
• Genesis
• Music

[rodrigocunhabakos]

3 idiotas não gostam de Genesis...

[LateNightGamer12]

just heard this for the first time today and found an amazing band <3

[20sk]

Can't stop listening to Genesis after the hard tests in school. Takes all my stresses and worries away fast. I don't need no fucking drugs, cigarettes or alcohol , I only need to hear Phil's voice...

[michelleleawaldrop1]

he sounds like norman bates. love phil collins

[557011]

@mabus2007 trust me kid phil may be old school but he is still the man old style!

[highgroundstrike]

@veritriphy i prefer prog over the pop but, the time phil took over (especially a trick of the tail era) i like a little better.

[1956jgray]

Wembly! Apparently that night it was heard 25 miles away! And Diana was there!

[tommieee1971]

poor guy lol yes this music is from da 80's a kind of music todays will never be made

[veritriphy]

This and 'In the Air Tonight'. Phils' rebuke to his critics after he took over. Nothing against Peter Gabriel but I never liked Genesis until Phil Collins took over. Honestly, I don't think anyone cared for Peter Gabriel much, he was too prog-rock. No one understood what the hell he was doing half the time.

[Voltegy]

i like this song i love phil collins !! =)

[kungfuninja55]

can anyone explain the difference between the two versions of this song? I have a version without the verse they starts at 4:20. hehe 4:20

[dasglaubichjetztnich]

@gilmancrush lol! he dont means his mother..... so you look at the lyrics....