Peter Gabriel - Excuse Me Lyrics






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 (Allright)

Excuse me please
You're standing on my memories
Stealing souvenirs again
I want to be alone
Leave me alone, I wanna be alone... [repeated several times]

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





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  1. D.... F....

    Love Peter's early music...so great!

  2. J.... B....

    Obviously Peter was listening to Nilsson back in the 70s.

    J.... B....

    Randy Newman, I'd say.

  3. B.... ....

    Moribund the Burgermeister excuses you.

  4. B.... S....

    I don't liek the rest of the album but I like this.

  5. A.... C....

    Interesting how many folk don't like this song. "You got the money back, that's okay . . ." His voice on those parts is as great as it ever was. So good. I myself never skip this one because we are left with only so much PG from this period and I'm not missing any of it!

  6. S.... J....

    You' re wearing out my joi de vie.

  7. V.... C....

    Sounds like a type of GREEK 50S music

  8. C.... T....

    Escuse me. Listen to a Tuba in a rock and roll just by Peter Gabriel. Genius. This record marked my youth.

  9. G.... W....

    Robert Fripp on Banjo.

  10. C.... ....

    The worst song on an otherwise brilliant album

    C.... ....

    I love all the other songs on the album, I've always skipped this.

    C.... ....

    Yep, my least favorite is either this or waiting for the big one. It's still not bad and this still has it's own charm but this being the weakest(or one of them) shows you how good the rest of the album is.

  11. J.... F....

    Robert Fripp on banjo and Tony Levin on tuba!

  12. R.... P....

    Once I was drunk and about to kill myself and this shit popped on my iPod touch. I didn't even realize I'd picked up the peter Gabriel music discography from a torrent let alone realize this song was on my iPod. True story here shitlords pls hear. This song came on via random, and there I was sitting outside in the grass at 4:30 am and I heard a song that kinda made me laugh and cry at once. Fave, 5 bags, love

  13. S.... N....

    It´s peter that´s for sure!

  14. J.... M....

    Well done!! Clearly a Randy Newman influenced song.

  15. M.... ....

    Where else can you hear Robert Fripp playing Banjo?

  16. T.... ....

    My alltime favorite Peter Gabriel song...Suppers Ready,Lamb...Then this fun,love the read on the insert for the voices

  17. M.... ....

    bet ya the 5 dislikes where phill Collins fans lolol :P

    M.... ....

    +TheMeep7777 Lol, "I just don't get this shit..."  Sususudio!  Phil was a good drummer.

    M.... ....

    pay attention, personalty i like them both. i think there both gifted in there own way :)

    M.... ....

    I feel exactly the same my dear Meep!

    M.... ....

    i love both 😂

  18. M.... ....

    its a great album, thanks :)

  19. c.... c....

    +Skidonti beethoven was never popular

  20. T.... P....

    I have been looking for years who did this song! It has haunted me in a funny way and until just now I don't believe I've heard is in over 35 years. My friend and I found a tape when we were kids with this song on it but we never knew who did it wow LOL!

  21. A.... P....

    A banjo, a tuba, a barbershop quartet - what's not to like?

    A.... P....

    +Andrew Peak Exactly

  22. D.... B....

    YOU'VE GOT THE MONEY BAGS , THAT'S OK ...WHO NEEDS A CADILLAC ANYWAY ? I'VE GOT THE MEDICINE TO MAKE YOU SEE THE LIGHT , CALL ME IN ALASKA IF IT TURNS OUT ALRIGHT ...ALRIGHT ....ADIOS GENESIS !!!!

    D.... B....

    @David Ballard That's an interesting take on those words. So you think he is referring to his old band there?

    D.... B....

    @David Ballard Now that I think about it..."You're standing on my memories, stealing souvenirs," "Grabbing those good years again, I want to be alone," "You got the money back, who needs a Cadillac anyway."


    Considering the time he wrote this, he must have been referring to Genesis paying off their debt during the Trick Tour, then playing live all the songs that he used to sing or he wrote. At the time, Genesis still did a lot of Gabriel songs live. I've listened to this song for years and never thought twice about what it meant until I read your comment. It all makes sense to me now!!!

    D.... B....

    +TheCorrectAnswer56 hey i never thought of that. hmm? maybe :)

  23. m.... ....

    I've had this album for 30 years.... never heard this song before.

    m.... ....

    Excuse me? :)

    m.... ....

    then, why did you have the album? ;-)

    m.... ....

    mrdarklight Then I guess you’ve never listened to it...?

  24. M.... ....

    Great song!!

  25. l.... ....

    Orchestration de ouf des back de ouf! PARFAIT!!!

  26. t.... ....

    This tune sounds like the type of song Paul McCartney put on the White Album. It's strange because I bought this album the day it came out, listened continuously for about a year then lost it. This is the first time I've heard this tune since then and it's only on re-hearing it that the similarity becomes apparent. Top stuff.

  27. T.... B....

    album. And, I don't know whether it was purposeful or not, he played the entire SO album (except one song) FIRST. And when the last SO song ended, many people filed out. Of course he played for another hour. LOL. Even what did get airplay was only incidentally a single because of some special circumstance. The only singles that got airplay, pre SO, are Solsbury Hill, Games Without Frontiers, and Shock the Monkey. I believe in England D.I.Y might have gotten some play.

  28. T.... B....

    Peter Gabriel has never been a pop musician, nor has he ever written for the pop culture. He is an art rocker through and through. Listen to any of his interviews or any interviews by musicians regarding him. He had few and far between radio play before SO with Sledgehammer and In Your Eyes (and only bc it was featured in an iconic scene in Say Anything) A testament to both the pop public''s attitude toward Peter) is that many people I talked to at the shows thought that SO was his first



    T.... B....

    I've always thought that Peter had incredible pop sensibilities but chose to be more experimental because it was more interesting to him and fulfilling as an artist. I don't know if this is the case or not, but my guess is that about the time of "So" he needed some $$$ to make the record label happy and fund everything he was doing. From interviews, I gather that he was still not profitable (or at least not substantially so) after Security. Some might call it "selling out" but he proved he could write pop songs with the best of them and my guess is royalties from the So record paid for everything he has done since then - such as opening up Real World Studios. He needed some serious coin to truly be a free artist and the only way to do that is to appeal to the masses. He's like the shark that occasionally jumps out into the air to grab its prey only to head right back underwater where it lives.

  29. R.... K....

    Well, excuuuuuuse me, princess

  30. D.... W....

    thanks so much , class album

  31. M.... ....

    thanks chrismcrae. This is the first Gabriel I heard. My sister played it for me. Loved the guy since for his width, depth and breadth of his music. He loves his work and keeps on making it wonderful. In my rock and roll heaven he's there with Kate Bush, Ian Anderson, Yes, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Dylan and all those others who insist on doing just whatever they damn well please. Don't ever change.

  32. p.... ....

    Excusez-moi...mais vous voyez ici la versatilité de Peter Gabriel !

  33. B.... D....

    A pearl...from my school days!

  34. S.... ....

    gum". In my eyes, bubble gum implies something extremely unsubstantial, that you chew for a bit, don't eat, and throw away.

    I don't view So that way, nor do I think the entirety of So was a cheap grab for popularity.

  35. S.... ....

    As far as I can tell, by degree7's definition, Beethoven's sonatas are pop, as is the videogame theme Baba Yetu, the theme to Super Mario Bros., most hymns sung at a Catholic mass, and the Dark Side of the Moon album. I guess there is pop rap, pop grunge, and pop metal as well.

    If "pop" means popular music, or with the intention of being popular, or in a style that was once popular, to you, that's fine, but then many things fall into that category.

    I question the sense of calling So "bubble

  36. D.... ....

    @nbelsky

    Yes, he was!

  37. p.... ....

    @cyragon1 LOL!

  38. D.... O....

    Gabriel The ANGEL .The most versatil musician of rock era

  39. D.... ....

    @onemarilynfan

    I never said Gabriel era Genesis was a pop band, I said Peter Gabriel on his OWN was a Pop musician/performer for the most part!

  40. D.... ....

    @onemarilynfan

    Well I never hear XTC played on the radio anymore, but they sure as hell were a pop band.

    Pop is pop, doesn't matter if it's on the radio or not,

  41. D.... ....

    @onemarilynfan

    Right, first : I own all PG's albums up until after 'Us'.

    Second, I never said PG wasn't progressive, he certainly did his fair share, but for his solo career he mostly wrote pop music (Solsburry Hill is a perfect example of a radio friendly pop song that came off this album). Pop music to me involves everything you hear until the point that it ceases to become radio friendly (ex. Supper's Ready).

  42. D.... ....

    @onemarilynfan

    Pop = Popular music. Pop/rock. This album certainly ain't progressive. Besides, rocknroll, (or in this case Vaudeville) has always been pop music.

    If you're talking about bubble gum pop though, then let me point my finger no further than 'SO'.

  43. D.... ....

    @onemarilynfan

    Of course this is pop music.

  44. L.... R....

    Love this song. Essential PG wit on display in fabulous style here!

  45. o.... ....

    levin, gabriel, wagner, hunter, all in boater and striped suit, singing this :-)

  46. g.... ....

    Love this track. Peter Gabriel is a genius

  47. C.... ....

    Has the whole album seen some mad panning? This is hard to listen to on headphones...

  48. t.... s....

    make that three ... we are exclusive