About The Song
“That’s All” is a song by the English rock band Genesis. It is a group composition and appears as the second track on their 1983 album Genesis. It was the album’s second single after “Mama”. On June 17, 1993, MCA Records re-issued and re-released the song as a CD and “HiQ” cassette single.
The U.S. single reached No. 6 in early 1984, making it their first Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hit; it included “Second Home by the Sea” as the B-side. The UK single featured “Taking It All Too Hard” as the flipside, and reached No. 16. Also released was a 12-inch single that included a live version of “Firth of Fifth” from 1981.
As the band’s first break into the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, the song is included in Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era.
The song was intended as an attempt to write a simple pop song with a melody in the style of the Beatles. Phil Collins acknowledged in a subsequent interview that the song also features one of his attempts at a “Ringo Starr drum part”.
The song begins with Tony Banks playing the main riff of the song on a Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano. The other keyboards used on this song are a Sequential Circuits Prophet-10 for organ pads and a Synclavier II for the organ solo in the middle section. The coda lapses into a guitar solo played by Mike Rutherford, as the drum beat intensifies, before the song fades away.
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Lyrics
Just as I thought it was goin’ alright
I found out I’m wrong, when I thought I was right
It’s always the same, it’s just a shame, that’s all
I could say day, and you’d say night
Tell me it’s black, when I know that it’s white
Always the same, it’s just a shame and that’s all
I could leave, but I won’t go
Though my heart might tell me so
I can’t feel a thing from my head down to my toes
But why does it always seem to be
Me lookin’ at you, you lookin’ at me
It’s always the same, it’s just a shame, that’s all
Turnin’ me on, turnin’ me off
Making me feel like I want too much
Livin’ with you is just putting me through it all of the time
Runnin’ around, staying out all night
Taking it all instead of taking one bite
Living with you is just putting me through it all of the time
I could leave, but I won’t go
But it’d be easier I know
I can’t feel a thing from my head down to my toes
Why does it always seem to be
Me lookin’ at you, you lookin’ at me
It’s always the same, it’s just a shame, that’s all
Truth is I love you
More than I wanted to
There’s no point in trying to pretend
There’s been no one who
Makes me feel like you do
Say we’ll be together ’til the end
But I could leave, but I won’t go
It’d be easier I know
I can’t feel a thing from my head down to my toes
So why does it always seem to be
Me looking at you, you looking at me
It’s always the same, it’s just a shame, that’s all
But I love you
More than I wanted to
There’s no point in trying to pretend
There’s been no one who
Makes me feel like you do
Say we’ll be together ’til the end
But just as I thought it was going alright
I find out I’m wrong when I thought I was right
It’s always the same, it’s just a shame, that’s all
Well, I could say day, you’d say night
Tell me it’s black when I know that it’s white
It’s always the same, it’s just a shame, that’s all
That’s all