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Genesis
From Genesis to Revelation
The Serpent

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The Serpent

Release date: 7th March 1969

From From Genesis to Revelation

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About This Track

"The Serpent" is a track by Genesis, from the album From Genesis to Revelation, released 7th March 1969. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Genesis

Genesis

Lyrics

The Serpent

[Verse 1]

Dark nights, planets are set

Creator prepares for the dawn of man

You're waking up, the day of incarnation

Said you're waking up to life

[Refrain]

Images he made to love

Images of gods in flesh

Man is wonderful, very wonderful

Look at him, beware the future

[Chorus]

Here is my world and it's waiting for me

Paradise before my eyes

I am alive in a new born world

This heaven will always be mine

I'm waking up, the day of man has come

I'm waking up, the day of man has come

[Verse 2]

And God created man from dust

With a soul inside his mould

And God created womankind

The vessel of Satan's hold

[Refrain]

Creator made the serpent wise

Evil in his tempting eyes

Man is wonderful, very wonderful

Look at him, beware the future

[Chorus]

Here is my world and it's waiting for me

Paradise before my eyes

I am alive in a new born world

This heaven will always be mine

I'm waking up, the day of man has come

I'm waking up, the day of man has come

[Verse 1]

Dark nights, planets are set

Creator prepares for the dawn of man

You're waking up, the day of incarnation

Said you're waking up to life

[Verse 3]

Here I stand a child in a lonely world, oh no

Watch the serpent tempting me to evil

The guiding hand will help me on

Guiding hand will help me on

[Outro]

The guiding hand will help me on

Guiding hand will help me on

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Track details

From From Genesis to Revelation

1969

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Album

From Genesis to Revelation

Release year

1969

—In Limbo
—In the Wilderness
—In Hiding
—Fireside Song
—In the Beginning
—The Serpent
—The Conqueror
—Am I Very Wrong?
—One Day
—A Place to Call My Own
—Window

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Albums & EPs

In The Windy City Chicago Broadcast 1978 Volume One

In The Windy City Chicago Broadcast 1978 Volume Two

Live At Knebworth

Live Chicago '77

Live In Rome April 1972

Revelation From The Beginning

Play Me My Song... - The Complete BBC Sessions 1970 - 1972

The Magic Of Time - The Early Sessions (March 1967 - August 1968)

Live In Shepperton, London 1973

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Back in N.Y.C.
Fly on a Windshield
In the Cage
The Carpet Crawlers (live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75)
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Watcher of the Skies (live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75)
Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary Medley
Behind the Lines (Live From The Lyceum Theatre, London, 6th & 7th May 1980)
Burning Rope (Live at Knebworth, 24th June 1978)
Dance on a Volcano (Live at Knebworth 78)

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Credits

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Writer: Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks
Producer: Jonathan King