Peter Gabriel Playing For Time

Playing For Time of Peter Gabriel

is much more than a song...

it makes you think about time

about the choices you make in life...

and it's not just the words that do that,

the notes at the beginning on the piano do it....

the movements of a song's structure

that feels like a suite without refrains....

swells your heart

little by little

you feel like sharing it with someone....

even though you know you can't really do it

it will be a misunderstood gesture

like that of unknown artists

who would have liked to play better with time

with Destiny...

Is a song that caresses you as you suffer....

note, after note...

gives you relief

a relief from that burden

that gives life

When your fate is adverse,

when it seems

that there is nothing special for you.

As time passes

As time plays with you

When fate has played its last trick on you

The greatest one of all

When you ask yourself "why?"

And that's where this song comes in

It touches the emptiness you feel inside

It touches your nothingness and turns it into everything

It turns you into You

for the last time

And when it seems to end

when everything slows down...

there the song explodes in the finale

Like maybe, someday,

life will do with you...

Maybe in the end you will triumph

Even if you thought you'd die failing.