| [LYRICS BELOW] Track 3 from Genesis' 12th album, the self-titled "Genesis". Released October, 3, 1983. Released on Charisma (original UK release) / Virgin (UK re-release) / Atlantic (USA) / Vertigo (South America) Most fans, as well as the band themselves, refer to this album as the "Mama" album. In some cases, notably amongst the Genesis online community, it has been referred to as the "Shapes" or "Gold Shapes" album because of the front cover artwork. Lyrically, the song 'Home By the Sea' is about a burglar who breaks into a house only to find it is a haunted prison. The burglar is captured by the ghosts who force him to listen to their stories for the rest of his life - "let us relive our lives in what we tell you". LYRICS Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall stealing through the dark of night Climbing through a window, stepping to the floor checking to the left and the right Picking up the pieces, putting them away something doesn't feel quite right Help me someone, let me out of here then out of the dark was suddenly heard welcome to the Home by the Sea Coming out the woodwork, thru the open door pushing from above and below shadows with no substance, in the shape of men round and down and sideways they go adrift without direction, eyes that hold despair then as one they sigh and they moan Help us someone, let us out of here living here so long undisturbed dreaming of the time we were free so many years ago before the time when we first heard welcome to ... |
