Ripples - Genesis - MP3 instrumental karaoke

"Ripples," the 1976 song by prog-rock trailblazers Genesis, is a guitar and piano-powered meditation on aging and the transience of youthful beauty. "Blue girls come in every size / Some are wise and some otherwise / They got pretty blue eyes / For an hour a man may change / For an hour her face looks strange / Looks strange, looks strange," sings Phil Collins in the opening verse. Featured on their 1976 album, A Trick of the Tail, Genesis form "Ripples" from distinctive 12-string guitar that creates a stirring, campfire mood before the dramatic chorus swells and surges with piano and synthesizer as Phil Collins's voice intensifies. "Sail away, away / Ripples never come back / Gone to the other side / Sail away, away," he sings. "Ripples" is a spinetingling tune drenched in drama – with a literary reference to Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy Dr. Faustus – and one that reminds us all to seize the day.