Peter Gabriel – “Face The Wall”

Peter Gabriel is slowly releasing his new album o\i, sharing a single on every full moon. Last month's was the "Looking For The Happy," which he said was about gratitude and "trying to do a little less bitching." Now, with "Face The Wall," he's "looking death in the face.""After last month, where we were 'looking for the happy,' we can just follow that line all the way through and come to Face the Wall, which is looking directly in the face of death. A nice, cheerful subject," he says in a statement, continuing:The lyric is partly about getting older, facing illness, and it's looking death in the face, which I think we don't do enough of. I know I've talked about this before, but cultures which seem to include death as a normal part of life seem more comfortable with it and live life to the full. That was the starting point.Music is a cathartic process for a lot of us and when I'm singing at the end, "I see you coming through" that is a cathartic moment. I think that is an important line; conditions are getting worse and more intense as the song progresses, but with that lyric it suggests there is a reason to be hopeful.You never quite know when you're in the studio whether the son...