Released: September 23, 1996
Featuring: John Wetton
Songwriter: Mike Rutherford Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Steve Hackett Tony Banks
Producer: Steve Hackett
Watcher of the skies, watcher of all
His is a world alone no world is his own
He whom life can no longer surprise
Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown
Creatures shaped this planet's soil
Now their reign has come to end
Has life again destroyed life?
Do they play elsewhere, do they know
More than their childhood games?
Maybe the lizard's shed its tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
Judge not this race by empty remains
Do you judge God by his creatures when they are dead?
For now, the lizard's shed it's tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
From life alone to life as one
Think not now your journey's done
For though your ship be sturdy
No mercy has the sea
Will you survive on the ocean of being?
Come ancient children hear what I say
This is my parting council for you on your way
Sadly now your thoughts turn to the stars
Where we have gone you know you never can go
Watcher of the skies watcher of all
This is your fate alone, this fate is your own
His is a world alone no world is his own
He whom life can no longer surprise
Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown
Creatures shaped this planet's soil
Now their reign has come to end
Has life again destroyed life?
Do they play elsewhere, do they know
More than their childhood games?
Maybe the lizard's shed its tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
Judge not this race by empty remains
Do you judge God by his creatures when they are dead?
For now, the lizard's shed it's tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
From life alone to life as one
Think not now your journey's done
For though your ship be sturdy
No mercy has the sea
Will you survive on the ocean of being?
Come ancient children hear what I say
This is my parting council for you on your way
Sadly now your thoughts turn to the stars
Where we have gone you know you never can go
Watcher of the skies watcher of all
This is your fate alone, this fate is your own
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- Genesis Revisited (1996)
- The Tokyo Tapes (1997)
Steve Hackett popular songs
- The Return of the Giant Hogweed
- Prizefighters
- The Chamber of 32 Doors
- The Musical Box
- Watcher of the Skies
- Star of Sirius
- Man in the Long Black Coat
- Can-Utility and the Coastliners
- Broadway Melody of 1974
- Dance on a Volcano
- I Know What I Like
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
- Blood on the Rooftops
- Fly on a Windshield
- Supper’s Ready
- Firth of Fifth
- For Absent Friends
- The Lamia
- ...In That Quiet Earth
- Los Endos
- Fountain of Salmacis
- Myopia/Los Endos/Imagining/Ace of Wands/Hackett to Pieces
- Spectral Mornings/Firth of Fifth/Clocks
- Horizons (2012)