Peter had some kind of nervous breakdown in 1985. This song is to reward the support he got from his family. This album is quite appealing of Peter's state of mind : it's a mixture of excessive enthusiast songs ("Big Time," "Sledgehammer...") and depressive ones ("Don't Give Up," "Mercy Street ...") (thanks, Thibaut - Brussels, Belgium)
Gabriel was inspired to write this after seeing a TV show about unemployment and family life, and a photo of a family in the dust bowl depression.
Gabriel: "The basic idea is that handling failure is one of the hardest things we have to learn to do."
Two videos were made.
This is a duet with Kate Bush. It didn't start as a duet - Gabriel had to change the lyrics so they made sense for a man and woman to sing them.
Paula Cole sang this with Gabriel on his 1994 album Secret World Live.
Post je objavljen 03.10.2005. u 15:01 sati.