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The Supernatural Anaesthetist is the forth track on side three of the album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Here we are looking at the lyrics and how they interact with the story. It's the relationship between the story Peter Gabriel wrote for the inside of the gatefold cover of the album and the lyrics of the tracks.

TRACK - The Supernatural Anaesthetist

Exhausted by all this conjecture, our hero gets the chance in a lifetime to meet his hero: Death. Death is wearing a light disguise, he made the outfit himself. He calls it the "Supernatural Anaesthetist." Death likes meeting people and wants to travel. Death approaches Rael with his special cannister, releases a puff, and appears to walk away content into the wall.

Here comes the supernatural anaesthetist.
If he wants you to snuff it,
All he has to do is puff it
- he's such a fine dancer.

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