It`s Gonna Get Better (long version) — текст песни (Genesis)

Released as B-side of "Mama" 12" single, 1983.


Reach out, hands in the air,
Don`t care just what they`re saying
Hold out, just keep on hoping against hope
That it`s gonna get better
Don`t worry, there`s no hurry for you, for me,
Everything`s gonna come around
Shout out, someone will listen to you, to me,
Someone`s gonna see

He calls me over and, calls me brother and I know
always fighting and moonlighting and, well it never ends
in the city, if you`re all alone
there`s a sister and she`s standing next to her man
in the doorways and in the hallways and
she don`t really care, it`s the city and she`s all alone

So reach out, hands in the air
Don`t care just what they`re saying
Hold out, just keep on hoping against hope,
That it`s gonna get better
Don`t worry, there`s no hurry for you, for me,
Everything`s gonna come around
Shout out, someone will listen to you, to me,
Someone`s gonna see, yeah

Well everywhere you go you, you live in the shadow of fear
in the darkness you feel the sharpness of steel
and it`s always there, in the city, and you`re all alone

So reach out, hands in the air
Don`t care just what they`re saying
Hold out, just keep on hoping against hope,
That it`s gonna get better
Don`t worry, there`s no hurry for you, for me,
Everything`s gonna come around
Shout out, someone will listen to you, to me
Someone`s gonna see...

If it`s gonna get better, it starts with a feeling
If it`s gonna get better, it`s gonna take time
If it`s gonna get better, we`ve gotta start now
cos I know, everybody can feel it
and I know, everybody will see it
cos it shows, and that shows I`m not dreaming
cos you know, and I know, it`s time for change