As with his i/O project, Peter Gabriel is releasing one new single each year on the date of the full moon. This was released earlier in the week and is one of the best so far from his new project. It's a hopeful song of how everyone needs to stand up for positive change.
From the lyrics:
A million mothers looking forwardThey're all looking out ahead
In the haze they can make out a planet
Alive, or was it dead?
Moving out in so many directions
The inhabitants have lost their nerve
And servants of the people
Have forgotten how to serve
This is not the way we want to live
It's not the way it has to be
This is not the way we want to live
It's not the way it has to be
Peter says of the song:
“I had originally thought about trying to create some music for The Elders.org, who are an extraordinary group of people. Their currency is not based on military power, economic power or political power, but just the moral authority they have from having lived extraordinary, selfless lives.
That's something which I wanted to talk about, write about and encourage, because it's pretty dark out there in lots of places and I think we need people who can just nudge both us and our leaders and keep alive some basic values of justice, compassion and democracy – a hope that can help us start envisioning a just, peaceful and fairer world. I think people generally respond much better to positive pictures of what’s coming than they do when they are bombarded and scared by negative ones.
We are much more likely to engage if we feel hope. Right now, we don't see so many positive visions of the future, at least they're not being projected so strongly as the negative, so I think it's really important that we start looking for visions to which we can aspire and looking for people who can provide that.
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