LETRA
Get'em out by Friday
John Pebble of Styx Enterprises
"Get 'em out by Friday!
You don't get paid till the last one's well on his way.
Get 'em out by Friday!
It's important that we keep to schedule, there must be no delay."
Mark Hall of Styx Enterprises (otherwise known as "The Winkler")
"I represent a firm of gentlemen who recently purchased this
house and all the others in the road,
In the interest of humanity we've found a better place for you
to go, go-woh, go-woh"
Mrs. Barrow (a tenant)
"Oh no, this I can't believe,
Oh Mary, they're asking us to leave."
Mr. Pebble
"Get 'em out by Friday!
I've told you before, 's good many gone if we let them stay.
And if it isn't easy,
You can squeeze a little grease and our troubles will soon run away."
Mrs. Barrow
"After all this time, they ask us to leave,
And I told them we could pay double the rent.
I don't know why it seemed so funny,
Seeing as how they'd take more money.
The winkler called again, he came here this morning,
With four hundred pounds and a photograph of the place he has found.
A block of flats with central heating.
I think we're going to find it hard."
Mr. Pebble
"Now we've got them!
I've always said that cash cash cash can do anything well.
Work can be rewarding
When a flash of intuition is a gift that helps you
excel-sell-sell-sell."
Mr. Hall
"Here we are in Harlow New Town, did you recognise your block
across the square, over there,
Sadly since last time we spoke, we've found we've had to raise
the rent again,
just a bit."
Mrs. Barrow
"Oh no, this I can't believe
Oh Mary, and we agreed to leave."
(a passage of time)
18/9/2012 T.V. Flash on all Dial-A-Program Services
This is an announcement from Genetic Control:
"It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on
humanoid height."
Extract from coversation of Joe Ordinary in Local Puborama
"I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the
properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold.
It's said now that people will be shorter in height,
they can fit twice as many in the same building site.
(they say it's alright),
Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow,
in the interest of humanity, they've been told they must go,
told they must go-go-go-go."
Sir John De Pebble of United Blacksprings International
"I think I've fixed a new deal
A dozen properties - we'll buy at five and sell at thirty four,
Some are still inhabited,
It's time to send the winkler to see them,
he'll have to work some more."
Memo from Satin Peter of Rock Development Ltd.
With land in your hand, you'll be happy on earth
Then invest in the Church for your heaven.
INFORMACIÓN
Get 'Em out By Friday (en Castellano: "Échalos Para El Viernes") es una canción del grupo inglés de rock progresivo Genesis aparecida por primera vez en el álbum Foxtrot del año 1972. Las letras se encuentran divididas entre los personajes de la canción, algo que el grupo ya había usado anteriormente en Harold The Barrel, del álbum Nursery Cryme.
Al igual que en la canción Watcher Of The Skies, se utilizó nuevamente el tema de la ciencia ficción: en el año 2012 un hombre de negocios compra calles enteras para poder ubicar la gente en edificios más pequeños, para lo cual los seres humanos eran reducidos genéticamente en tamaño y de esta forma podrían entrar más personas en el mismo departamento, algo que fue tomado tras el concepto de la sobrepoblación.
Peter Gabriel canta las partes de John Pebble (Juan Guijarro en castellano), el empresario sin corazón; Mark "El Desalojador" Hall; sus asesores y varios inquilinos. Los personajes eran tipificados humorísticamente mientras las letras incluían la extraña línea "Este es un anuncio del Control Genético: es mi triste deber informarles de una disminución de cuatro pies en la altura de los humanoides."
Alternando entre el rápido y neurótico personaje de John Pebble y las suaves secciones para los tristes inquilinos, la canción junta mucho movimiento y drama, aumentado por partes vocales más enérgicas en el escenario. La canción fue interpretada regularmente durante la gira de Foxtrot en el año 1972, apareciendo en vivo en el álbum Genesis Live del año siguiente, aunque fue prácticamente descartada luego del álbum Selling England By The Pound, siendo tocada luego en muy pocas oportunidades.
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