Peter Gabriel: Trending quotes (page 3)

“And in this moment, I need to be needed.
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked.
In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted.
'Cause I love to be loved.
I love to be loved.
I love to be loved.
Yes, I love to be loved.”

Peter Gabriel

Love to Be Loved
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Love , Fear

“If we can stand up
When all else falls down,
We'll last through the winter.
We'll last through the storms.
We'll last through the north winds
That bring down the ice and snow.
We'll last through the long nights
Till the green field's growing again.
Growing again.”

Peter Gabriel

The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)

Winter , Night

“Don't you know that I'm not joking?
Aah, you think you won't, I think you will.
Don't you know that this tongue can kill?
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
Lady kiss that frog.”

Peter Gabriel

Kiss That Frog
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Kiss , Thinking

“So what's one little kiss, one tiny little touch?
Aah, he's wanting it so much.
I swear that this is royal blood, running through my skin.
Oh, can you see the state I'm in?
Kiss it better, kiss it better.”

Peter Gabriel

Kiss That Frog
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Kiss

“It's the time of turning and there's something stirring outside.
It's the time of turning and the old world's falling.
Nothing you can do can stop by the next emerging.
Time of the turning and we'd better learn to say our goodbyes.”

Peter Gabriel

The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)

World , Learning , Time

“I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream.
It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch.
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm.”

Peter Gabriel

Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)

Dreams , Sense , Water

“Looking down on empty streets, all she can see
Are the dreams all made solid
Are the dreams all made real.”

Peter Gabriel

Mercy Street
Song lyrics, So (1986)

Dreams

“Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games
Hiding out in tree-tops shouting out rude names
— whistling tunes we hide in the dunes by the seaside
— whistling tunes we piss on the goons in the jungle.
It’s a knockout.”

Peter Gabriel

Games Without Frontiers
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)

Game , Tree

“Did I dream this belief
or did I believe this dream
how I will find relief
I grieve…”

Peter Gabriel

I Grieve
Song lyrics, City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture (1998)

Dreams

“I grieve for you
You leave me
So hard to move on
Still loving what's gone
They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on…”

Peter Gabriel

I Grieve
Song lyrics, City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture (1998)

Love , Life

“What I carry in my heart
Brings us so close or so far apart.
Only love can make love.”

Peter Gabriel

That Voice Again
Song lyrics, So (1986)

Love , Making love , Heart

“D. I. Y., D. I. Y., D. I. Y., D. I. Y.
Don't tell me what I will do, 'cos I won't.
Don't tell me to believe in you, 'cos I don't.
Be on your guard, better hostile and hard, don't risk affection;
Like flesh to the bone in the no-go zone,
You're still looking for the Resurrection.
Come up to me with your "What did you say?"”

Peter Gabriel

And I'll tell you, straight in the eye:
D.I.Y., D.I.Y.
D.I.Y
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (II) (1978)

Hostility

“The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight.
In search of you, I feel my way, through the slowest heaving night.
Whatever fear invents, I swear it makes no sense.
I reach through the border fence.
Come down, come talk to me.”

Peter Gabriel

Come Talk to Me
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Fear , Way , Feeling , Search

“Now we're busy making all our busy plans
On foundations built to last.
But nothing fades as fast as the future
And nothing clings like the past, until we can see.More than this,
More than this.
So much more than this.
There is something out there
More than this.
It's coming through
And more than this.
I stand alone and so connected
And I'm all there,
Right next to you.”

Peter Gabriel

More Than This
Song lyrics, Up (2002)

Business , Past , Future

“I'm scared of swimming in the sea,
Dark shapes moving under me.
Every fear I swallow makes me small.
Inconsequential things occur,
Alarms are triggered,
Memories stir.
It's not the way it has to be.”

Peter Gabriel

Darkness
Song lyrics, Up (2002)

Fear , Way , Memory , Sea

“Shock the monkey to life.”

Peter Gabriel

Shock The Monkey
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (IV), Security (1982)

Life