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Last week, or maybe even two weeks ago I heard a Genesis song on the radio. It was one I hadn’t heard in many years. I remember when I was a kid (10? 12?) I thought that the song was about an old Nazi who defects to some nice summer home (in Brazil or France or something) and tries to hide out in this paradise. But the ghosts of the Jews find him and haunt him FOREVER in his Home By The Sea.

I thought it was about a Nazi because I thought what Phil Collins was singing at this one point was “sieg heil.”

After hearing that song the other day I went home and looked up the lyrics on the internet. Turns out, I was super wrong. It’s not about a Nazi being haunted at all. It’s about a burglar who breaks into this home by the sea, probably a castle-y home, and then the ghosts in the home make him sit and listen to their stories FOREVER in this Home By The Sea. And what Phil collins actually sings is “sit down.”

I kind of like my Nazi version better.

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