Genesis
Spot The Pigeon

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(Collins/Banks/Rutherford)
There's the Reds and there's the Greens
Super slicks and has beens,
They're accompanied by three men dressed in black,
One's a whistle, two are flags, quite often they're the drags
Kick the ball into the goal, they put it back.

Yes Match of the Day's
The only way, to spend your Saturday

Each side's eleven men, with numbers on their backs
But at a distance they all tend to look the same
But some own their boutiques, they clean up every week
Inciting riots, causing chaos, such a shame!

But Match of the Day's
The only way
We spend our Saturday

And that's not all, our mates the keepers
Slippin' and sliding in the mud
Arms as long as creepers

Send him off ...........
Where are your specs ...........
Kick you to death ...........
Oi! Are you deaf ...........

There's a few things before we go
That I think you ought to know
Obstruction, Body Checking, heavy tackles
So put on your hat and scarf
Have a drink, have a larf'
From the terrace you can see your men do battle.

Yes Match of the Day's
The only way
You can spend your Saturday

Don't forget, the trainers with their sponges
Managers with open cheques, liquid business lunches
Send 'im off ...........
Where are your specs ...........
Kick you to death ...........
Oi! Are you deaf ...........
next song previous song Genesis: Spot The Pigeon Pigeons
(Banks/Rutherford/Collins)
Who puts fifty tons of shit on the Foreign Office roof?
Who suffers from nine known diseases?
Who gets up in the morning when the sun comes up
And makes their beds, of paper clips, and bus tickets
All around their heads?
Who congregate around Trafalgar Square
Taking pot shots at the tourists?
Oh you've got to watch out
When you wander round the square in the morning
They're everywhere, they're everywhere

Here we have an honest man
A civil servant to boot
He lived high up in the Ministry
And when he wished to make a point
He knew just what to do
His window ledges were all covered in grease
I want them out of here

He said to me I want them gone
Because you see -- Oh don't you see
None of us are getting any younger
You've got to follow your nose
And if it tells you that you've got to go
Well that's because, they're everywhere,
They're everywhere

So we called in those men, those horrible men
And set them to work on the rooftops
You see their van is very plain
And I know they're too ashamed
To wear their by appointment badges anymore
Sometimes they use vaseline, sometimes they use the pill
I've often seen them with a gun
But as the years go by, old habits seem to die
And nowadays they knockatize them all
Oh you've got to watch out
As you wander round the square in the morning
They're everywhere, they're everywhere
next song previous song Genesis: Spot The Pigeon Inside And Out
a) Inside
(Rutherford/Collins/Banks/Hackett)
Brother Seems they're letting him out next year
        He's behaving himself I hear
        Governor Conway says it will be fine
        Just as long as he can tow the line

        So it's the same old story
        But it says here 'Mum you're not to worry'
        'Cos some you lose and some you lose

        At this party, he was on his own
        All he did was say he'd take her home
        But it seems they didn't go straight there
        'twas on the porch, she told him,
        'put your hand here'

        It's the same old story
        They told her mum she's not to worry

Police  'If what she says is so,
        we'll never let him go!'

Him     'Never a word could be heard
        Not even the sound of a bird
        Singing it over again, telling a different story
        Never the same as before
        See the summer going out by the door'

Brother And now that you've paid for those lies
        Get another disguise

        'It's twenty years now since our Kid came free
        Oh I remember August '53
        But it wasn't quite like they said
        With that behind you, you can't plan ahead
        So it's the same old story
        They say you're free, don't worry
        What they said's not so
        They never let you go!'

Him     'Never a word could be heard
        Not even the sound of a bird
        Singing it over again, telling a different story
        Never the same as before
        See the summer going out by the door'

Brother And now that you've paid for those lies
        Get another disguise
Genesis: Seconds Out (1st disc) previous song Genesis: Spot The Pigeon Inside And Out
b) Out
(Rutherford/Collins/Banks/Hackett)
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