Get' Em Out by Friday

"Get 'em Out By Friday" is a song by the English progressive rock band Genesis first appeared on the Foxtrot album of the year 1972. The lyrics are divided between the characters of the song, something that the group had already used previously in Harold The Barrel, of the album Nursery Cryme.

As in the Watcher Of The Skies song, science fiction was again used: in 2012, a businessman buys entire streets to be able to locate people in smaller buildings, for which human beings were genetically reduced in size (the letters included the line "This is an announcement of Genetic Control: it is my sad duty to inform you of a four-foot restriction on the height of the humanoids.") people in the same department, something that was taken after the concept of the overpopulation.

Peter Gabriel sings the parts of John Pebble (Juan Guijarro in Castilian), the businessman without heart; Mark "The Skimmer" Hall; their advisers and several tenants. The characters were typified humorously by Gabriel, who used changes in his voice and accents to represent the different characters. It is rumored that to write this song Peter Gabriel was inspired by a conflict he had with his landlord in the early 70's. Alternating between John Pebble's quick and neurotic character and the soft sections for the sad tenants, the song brings a lot of movement and drama, heightened by more energetic vocal parts on stage. The song was performed regularly during the Foxtrot tour in 1972, appearing live on the album Genesis Live the following year, although it was practically discarded after the album Selling England By The Pound when not being well received by the fans, who took the lyrics literally instead of the humorous tint that was thought, being touched then in very few opportunities.

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