Excuse Me

Album: Peter Gabriel (first, car) (1977)
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  • Excuse me
    You're wearing out my joie de vie
    Grabbing those good years again
    I want to be alone

    Excuse me
    I'm not the man I used to be
    Someone else crept in again
    I want to be alone

    Excuse me please
    I'm looking for Lost Angeles
    Soaking up the sin again
    I want to be alone

    You got the money back, that's okay
    Who needs a Cadillac anyway
    I got the medicine, make you see the light
    Call me in Alaska if it all turns out right (Alright)

    Excuse me please
    You're standing on my memories
    Stealing souvenirs again
    I want to be alone

    Leave me alone, I want to be alone
    (repeated several times)

    You got the money back, that's okay
    Who needs a Cadillac anyway
    I got the medicine, make you see the light
    Call me in Alaska, if it all turns out right Writer/s: Martin Hall, Peter Gabriel
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Dave from Oak Park, MiDid this song start off as "Dixieland" or were the "rock instruments" recorded first?

    Sorry, to me it sounds like Peter is backed by "two different musical units" although they're the same guys.
  • Kevin from Naperville, IlPeter has for quite some time been a fan of Randy Newman and I always believed that this song sounded like it could have been a Randy Newman song. I think it was an homage to the singer much like Steam was to Otis Redding.
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