Shannon’s Perspective:
“Let it pass let it go let it leave
From the deepest place I grieve
This time I believe and I let go”
Healing is all about learning to let go and I am learning how to do both. Both of these journeys, the music project and my health, have not been easy at times but I believe it is making me a more compassionate human being.
As with So and i/o, I consider Us to be a perfect album. So three perfect albums from one artist. Only So had been released prior to naming Gabriel, so I feel a great sense of pride in making that decision in naming him - and vindication that it was the right decision with two additional perfect albums.
Believe it or not there will be an even more powerful connection between Peter Gabriel and Gabriel later on in this journey.
Us was released in September 1992, so yet another album that has been in my life longer than Shannon.
This has always been a powerful song to me, but I'll be honest - in a very raw, emotional sense today it hits pretty deep. It realistically could have fallen under the Secret Wells of Emotion and We Expose Our Insecure Spots themes from earlier in this project. But I choose to place it under Perfect For The Moment.
Shannon and I have discussed various songs where we think "this is exactly what he/she would say to me" or "what I believe he/she is thinking".
Verbatim for the entirety of this song, this new second time around song is how I envision Shannon feeling - and more importantly saying the things she might not be able to say. I know she knows the song, and it may have been a while since she listened to it, but I believe tonight it will hit her like a ton of bricks. This is one of the hardest things about this project - dragging things into the light and facing them head on. But I need her to know that I think about her constantly and do the best that I can to try and understand what she is going through; physically and emotionally.
Love to Be Loved - Peter Gabriel
Aah-aah-aah-aah (aah-aah-aah-aah)
So...
You know how people are
When it's all gone much too far
The way their minds are made
Still...
There's something you should know
That I could not let show
That fear of letting go
And in this moment
I need to be needed
With this darkness all around me
I like to be liked
In this emptiness and fear
I wanna be wanted
'Cause I love to be loved
I love to be loved
I love to be loved
Yes, I love to be loved
I cry...
The way that babies cry
The way they can't deny
The way they feel
Words...
They climb all over you
'Til they uncover you
From where you hide
And in this moment
I need to be needed
When my self-esteem is sinking
I like to be liked
In this emptiness and fear
I wanna be wanted
'Cause I love to be loved
I love to be loved
I love to be loved
Oh, I love to be loved
This old familiar craving
I've been here before
This way of behaving
Don't know who the hell I'm saving anymore
Let it pass, let it go, let it leave
From the deepest place I grieve
This time, I believe
And I let go
And I let go
I can let go of it
Though it takes all the strength in me
And all the world can see
I'm losing such a central part of me
I can let go of it
You know I mean it
You know that I mean it
I recognize how much I've lost
But I cannot face the cost
'Cause I love to be loved
Yes, I love to be loved
I love to be loved
Yes, I love to be loved
I love to be loved
Yes, I love to be loved
I love to be loved
I love to be loved
I love to be loved
Yes, I love to be loved
Written by: Peter Gabriel
Album: Us
Released: 1992
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