That's All - Remastered 2007

This song is about a failing relationship. The singer feels that no matter how hard he tries, the relationship keeps ending up in the rut: "It's always the same, it's just a shame, and that's all."

Genesis keyboard player Tony Banks was one of the first to use an Emulator, which was one of the first digital samplers (it was introduced in 1981). Banks would record his bandmate Mike Rutherford as he noodled around on his instruments, then play around with those samples to craft a track, which is how this song developed. "We were just improvising in the studio and Mike was playing a bit on guitar," he said in a Songfacts interview. "With the Emulator, I was able to sample bits and pieces as we were going along. I sampled this bit of Mike's, which didn't sound very good, so I actually slowed it down to about half or quarter speed, and it sort of played a suggestion of the riff that became 'That's All.' It wasn't quite the same, but it had a suggestion of it. I played it on the piano like that, and I thought, this is really good. Phil went at it with a sort of 'Rocky Raccoon' style drumming on it, which made it something it hadn't really been at all in the first place. Then I just wanted to keep it simple, chord-wise, and let it go where it would, rather than trying to combine it with another bit, which is sometimes what we used to do. We really let the song develop in itself, and I was pleased with that. That's a simpler Genesis song, but one that really works."

Directed by Jim Yukich, the video shows the three members of Genesis, apparently homeless, dressed in dirty clothes and warming themselves using fires in metal barrels as they perform the song in an abandoned building. The connection between the video and the song (if there is one) is open to interpretation. "That slightly down-and-out feel seemed to go a little bit with the lyric, but it's not a perfect match," Tony Bank offered.