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Peter Gabriel – Lay Your Hands on Me (1982) | Track profile | Dork

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Peter Gabriel IV: Security
Lay Your Hands on Me

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Lay Your Hands on Me

Release date: 6th September 1982

From Peter Gabriel IV: Security

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About This Track

"Lay Your Hands on Me" is a track by Peter Gabriel, from the album Peter Gabriel IV: Security, released 6th September 1982. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Lay Your Hands on Me

[Verse 1]

Sat in the corner of the Garden Grill

With plastic flowers on the windowsill

No more miracles, loaves and fishes

Been so busy with the washing of the dishes

Reaction level's much too high

I can do without the stimuli

[Verse 2]

I'm living way beyond my ways and means

Living in the zone of the in-betweens

I can see the flashes on the frozen ocean

Static charge of the cold emotion

Watched on by the distant eyes

Watched on by the silent hidden spies

[Pre-Chorus]

But still the warmth flows through me

And I sense you know me well

No luck, no golden chances

No mitigating circumstances now

It's only common sense

There are no accidents round here

[Chorus]

I am willing, lay your hands on me

(Yeah) I am ready, lay your hands on me

(Yeah) I believe, lay your hands on me, over me

[Verse 3]

Working in gardens, thorn-less roses

Fat men play with their garden hoses

Poolside laughter has a cynical bite

Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite

I walk away from light and sound

Down stairways leading underground

[Pre-Chorus]

But still the warmth flows through me

And I sense you know me well

It's only common sense

There are no accidents around here

[Chorus]

I am willing, lay your hands on me

(Yeah) I am ready, lay your hands on me

(Yeah) I believe, lay your hands on me, over me

Over me

[Outro]

Lay your hands on me

Lay your hands on me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me

Lay your hands on me

Lay your hands on me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me, over me

Lay your hands on me

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Track details

From Peter Gabriel IV: Security

1982

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Peter Gabriel
Lyricist: Peter Gabriel
Producer: David Lord, Peter Gabriel
Engineer: David Lord, Julian Mendelsohn
Bass: Tony Levin
Drums: Jerry Marotta
Vocals: Peter Gabriel
Additional Engineering: Richard Chappell
Assistant Engineer: Dan Roe, Danny Heaps, Edel Griffith, Neil Perry
Audio Edited At: Advision Studios
Background Vocals: David Rhodes, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill
Fretless Bass Guitar: Tony Levin
Percussion: Jerry Marotta
Programmer: Peter Gabriel
Recording Engineer: Andy Rose, Tim Wybrow
Remastering Engineer: Tony Cousins
Synthesizer: David Lord, Peter Gabriel
Timbales: Morris Pert