The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Early morning Manhattan

Ocean wings blowing on the land

Movie-Palaces now undone

The all-night watchmen have had their fun

Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show

It’s the same old ending — it’s time to go Get out —

It seems they cannot leave their dream

There’s something moving in the sidewalk steam

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Night-time's flyers feel their pains

Drugstore take down the chains

Metal motion comes in bursts

But the gas station can quench that thirst

Suspension cracked on an unmade road

The trucker’s eyes read «Overload»

And out of the subway

Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid

Exits into daylight, it’s spraygun hid

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

The lamb seems right out of place

Yet the Broadway street scene finds a focus in its face

Somehow it’s lying there

Brings a stillness to the air

Though man-made light, at night is very bright

There’s no whitewash victim

As the neons dim, to the coat of white

Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid

Wipes his gun — he’s forgotten what he did

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Suzanne tired, her work all done

Thinks money — honey — be on — neon

Cabman’s velvet glove sounds the horn

And the sawdust king spits out his scorn

Wonder women you can draw your blind

Don’t look at me, I’m not your kind

I’m Rael

Something inside me has just begun

Lord knows what I have done

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

On Broadway —

They say the lights are always bright on Broadway