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Track: Moribund The Burgermeister
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Album: Peter Gabriel 1: Car (Remastered Version)

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Name: Peter Gabriel
Spotify Genres: art rock
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English singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and entrepreneur (born 13 February 1950 in Chobham, Surrey, England, UK). Father of photographer and film director [a=Anna Gabriel] (born 26 July 1974), and singer [a=Melanie Gabriel] (born 23 August 1976). He was the original lead singer of prog-rockers [a=Genesis] since 1967 but left in 1975 to pursue solo projects. As well as becoming a multi-platinum selling albums artist, he was the founder of the annual [l=WOMAD] music festival, owns one of Britain's most in-demand recording studios, [l=Real World Studios], and jointly owns the recording studio hardware manufacturer Solid State Logic.

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Release: Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill / Moribund The Burgermeister
Year: 1977
Genres: Rock, Pop
Styles: Art Rock, Pop Rock

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LYRICS

Caught in the chaos in the market square
I don't know what, I don't know why, but something's wrong down there
Their bodies twistin' and turnin' in a thousand ways
The eyes all rollin' round and round into a distant gaze
Ah, look at that crowd!
Some are jumping up in the air - say "We're drowning in a torrent of blood!"
Others going down on their knees, seen a saviour coming out of the mud
Oh Mother! It's eating out my soul
Destroying law and order, I'm gonna lose control

What can I do to stop this plague, spread by sight alone
Just a glimpse and then a quiver, then they shiver to the bone
Ah, look at them go!

Bunderschaft, you are going daft? Better seal off the castle grounds
"This is Moribund, the Burgermeister, I'm gonna keep this monster down,
Somebody sent the subversive element; going to chase it out of down."
No-one will tell what all this is about
But I will find out.
(I will find out. I will find out.)

This thing's really outrageous, I tell you on the level
It's really so contagious must be the work of the devil
You better go now, pick up the pipers, tell them to play
Seems the music keeps them quiet, there is no other way.
Ah, close the doors!

"We've tried potions and waxen dolls, but none of us could find any cures,"
Mother please, is it just a disease, that has them breaking all my laws,
Check if you can disconnect the effect and I'll go after the cause
No-one will tell what this is all about
But I will find out
I will.