Love your choice John for a new listener of PG rich songs catalogue. This song is a great start to appreciate the great musicianship, the beautiful production of a more accessible song of him. Eventually, you should go to Biko. A fantastic powerful song.

It reminds me of something David Bowie would do.

If I recall correctly, the melt effect was the result of messing with a Polaroid picture as it was developing.

Great reaction and interpretation(s). Either way, a very good song by PG which fits very well with some of the angular music of the times

III (Melt) is a great album. Another is So. Thanks for playing this song

Peter Gabriel to listen to: Shock the Monkey, Games with out Frontiers, San Jancinto, The Rhythm of the Heat, Kiss of Life.

2:00 For those confused by this: vitreous humor vs aqueous humor. Aqueous humor is a water-like fluid that lies in front of the lens. Vitreous humor is a gel-like substance that lies behind the lens and in front of the retina.

Too, to a Backdrop, of furthering a Contextual Framework to the Genesis ( ;) ) of this Song, and if Memory serves me correct, in 79' Pete temporarily Institutionalized Himself. - as a Colorization to that Time for him, witness here his Lyrics from Lead a Normal Life, also from his PG3 Album - "It's nice here with a view of the trees Eating with a spoon? They don't give you knives? 'Spect you watch those trees Blowing in the breeze We want to see you lead a normal life."

His first 4 studio albums & So( save for sledgehammer, big time) are gold & great for you both. Hard to find one song that's not engaging. Self reflection & human condition is a common theme. Biko, Intruder, Red Rain. Shock the Monkey, Modern Love, D.I.Y , On the Air, Games w/o Frontiers, And Through the Wire, San Jancinto, I Have the Touch, Red Rain, Don't Give Up, Mercy Street, That Voice Again. All very interested in both impressions.

A different interpretation that I heard from another source has the protagonist of this song as a former prisoner of war who currently suffers from PTSD, and the person with their "mouth to the soda" is a girl he's on a date with. In that situation his date is most likely only staring at him like a "bird of prey" in his imagination, due to his heightened senses. I think the video backs this interpretation up the most of you watch it. It shows him being interrogated and it also shows him with a girl. In addition to that, the people in the video sometimes magically turn into these white-painted creatures who move in a really hurkey-jerky, alien way, and that is a total question mark and I can't figure out how to integrate that aspect into any of our interpretations. I came upon this reaction because I was searching for responses to this song and its video in the hopes that someone would have an explanation for the white-painted people.

Over here in England it didn't confuse us at all because we're not American.

7:25 Rather than being advice about remaining silent when questioned by police I've always assumed it's the silence and amnesia of a jailer or policeman during public enquiries following a scandal, such as a death in custody. This is in the context of other tracks on the album, in particular Biko; the South African anti apartheid activist beaten to death in police custody in 1977. There was the usual coverup seen under such regimes: 'Biko was examined by a doctor... who stated that there was no evidence of injury on Biko' 'the country's police minister Jimmy Kruger initially implied that it had been the result of a hunger strike, a statement he later denied.' ' The security forces alleged that Biko had acted aggressively and had sustained his injuries in a scuffle, in which he had banged his head against the cell wall. The presiding magistrate accepted the security forces' account of events and refused to prosecute any of those involved' [All quotes from Wikipedia]. This remains topical see also: "We were asleep at the time", "The cameras stopped working" "The recordings are missing/wiped" etc. The album has the general theme of personal moral responsibility or shortcoming, either personally or collectively. Games Without Frontiers looks at the absurdities of wars, especially proxy ones, but my stand out track is Not One Of Us, about setting people against one another with the key lines: "There's safety in numbers When you learn to divide How can we be in If there is no outside"" You should tackle the album as a whole, it comes from the time when track order was crafted to take you on a journey.

Can you please react to Battle in me by Garbage Please

'A Socialist Reaction' seems more apt.