That gave me an interesting thought. Maybe Peter Gabriel gets too much credit for Genesis lyrics and his natural writing style was being made more "obtuse" to fit the band (my guess is that Tony Banks might have influenced that). For soon after Gabriel left, he wrote "Solsbury Hill," which is rather typical lyrically of his ongoing solo material (and a great song, if you ask me). According to Wikipedia, he wrote almost all the lyrics to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, but prior to that, most songs seem to have been group compositions.
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