Follow You Follow Me Lyrics

"Follow You, Follow Me" is a 1978 single by the British band Genesis. Originally released as the last track from their 1978 album …And Then There Were Three…, the single was Genesis's first American Top 40 and UK Top 10 hit. The music was written by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford, with lyrics by Rutherford. Genesis continued to play progressive rock up until and including 1980's Duke. The slower, overtly sentimental love-themed "Follow You, Follow Me" was a departure from their previous work, and indeed the rest of the album. Although previous albums contained love ballads, such as Selling England by the Pound's "More Fool Me", "Follow You, Follow Me" was the first worldwide pop success by the group and gained the band play on adult contemporary and pop music stations. The band all agreed that their music was attracting mainly male audiences, almost 95% in fact. This song was written specifically to redress the balance. The music video for the song was a mimed live performance of the band. It was featured on their DVD The Video Show. The song was played live during the …And Then There Were Three…, Duke, Three Sides Live, Mama, Invisible Touch (1986 set only), The Way We Walk, Calling All Stations (with Ray Wilson on vocals), and Turn It on Again tours. For The Way We Walk, this song was played as part of a medley of old Genesis songs called the "Old Medley;" because of this the song wasn't always played in its entirety during this tour. During the Turn It on Again tour, Phil Collins performed on the drums as well as the vocals, while animated line art of a selection of the band's album art played in the background video screens. The first and last scenes in the animated sequence show the "father" character from the We Can't Dance album cover, raising his hand as if screwing and unscrewing a light bulb; indeed, a bright white spotlight (on Collins) lights up at the beginning of the song, and turns itself off at the end. Former Genesis singer Ray Wilson performs the song acoustically on his solo album Ray Wilson Live. It was also covered by American band Red House Painters for the first edition of Badman's "Shanti Project Collection." This song was featured in season 1, episode 12 ("Glued") of the television series Cold Case, and can also be heard briefly in the 2007 film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.