More on Peter Gabriel's Rael...from
http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/yes/tr_77.html
[Interpretations: (i) It doesn't take a great leap in logic to connect the hidden spraygun with a sexual reference, especially given that Peter Gabriel is the author. The reference to Rael "wiping his gun" and "forgetting what he did" in the middle of the song could have any number of meanings, some more sinister than others, (ii) It similarly doesn't take a great leap in logic to connect the lamb with a emissary from another plane of existence, alerting Rael of the fate which soon awaits him, (iii) It does take a certain degree of interpretive skill to associate the line "cabman's velvet glove" with the Velvet Underground, as at least one listener has done. Andy Warhol worked as a cab driver at one point, you see. If this is an accurate interpretation, one wonders what exactly Gabriel meant by the line, (iv) I've often thought that The Lamb contains certain homoerotic references, matched with heterosexual representations in a somewhat confusing manner. Here, the "Wonder women, you can draw your blind/Don't look at me, I'm not your kind" line could be seen as verifying this possibility. More on this later.]
