Secret World Lyrics

Secret World (Peter Gabriel)
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Verse:
I stood in this unsheltered place
'Til I could see the face behind the face
All that had gone before had left no trace
Chorus:
Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
All the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?
So I watch you wash your hair
Underwater, unaware
And the plane flies through the air
Did you think I didn't have to choose it
That I alone could win or lose it
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?
In this house of make believe
Divided in two like Adam and Eve
You put out and I receive
Bridge:
bass riff
Oh the wheel it is turning spinning round and round
And the house it is crumbling but the stairways stand
With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame
Whatever it is, we are all the same
Making it up in our secret world
Making it up in our secret world
Making it up in our secret world
Shaking it up
Breaking it up
Making it up in our secret world
Seeing things that were not there
On a wing, on a prayer
In this state of disrepair
Ssh, listen....
End Section:
repeat to end
// What makes mass society so difficult to bear //
// is not the number of people involved...but //
// the fact that the world between them has lost //
// its power to gather them together, to relate //
// and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 //