Humdrum

Album: Peter Gabriel (first, car) (1977)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a mix of 2 arrangements - a keyboard/vocal track and a Latin rhythm - that move through the stereo spectrum.
  • The song is about trying to escape into the unknown.
  • Gabriel played this in his live shows from time to time until 1983.

Comments: 2

  • Zoso The Zephead"Out of woman comes the man
    Spends rest of his life getting back when he can"

    What.a.lyric!
  • Tom from Appleton, Wi"I ride tandem with the random/Things don't run the way I planned them/In the humdrum" what a great lyric!
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