“Dusk” is the fifth song from Trespass, the second album by Genesis. It showed Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford’s combined twelve-string sound, along with the pastoral atmosphere that are a trademark of early Genesis. This song originally started out as a track called “Family” which was on a 4-s...
[Verse 1]
See my hand is moving
Touching all that's real
And once it stroked love's body
Now it claws the past
[Chorus]
The scent of a flower
The colours of the morning
Friends to believe in
Tears soon forgotten
See how the rain drives away, another day
[Verse 2]
If a leaf has fallen
Does the tree lie broken?
And if we draw some water
Does the well run dry?
[Chorus]
The sigh of a mother
The screaming of lovers
Like two angry tigers
They tear at each other
See how for him lifetime's fears disappear
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Once had Jesus suffered
Heaven could not see him
And now my ship is sinking
The captain stands alone
[Chorus]
A pawn on a chessboard
A false move by God will now destroy me
But wait, on the horizon
A new dawn seems to be rising
Never to recall this passerby, born to die
Dusk was written by Mike Rutherford & Anthony Phillips & Peter Gabriel & Tony Banks.
Dusk was produced by John Anthony.