And we struggle in our day to day with the ego that keeps us separate, wasting time, it is literally work to keep the mind calmed and centered, "awake and alive". "Love.so much pain.so much wasted".it's hard to see so much suffering in the world, you can't help but be caught up. I want to feel that completeness, that oneness. The light of all, the heat (energy) animating the universe. "I see the doorway to a thousand churches" I see the unity of all things through the doorway of the spiritual third eye, all religions lead to God. There was no struggle, no suffering, I only imagined it. I am not this body, I am spirit, I am one with everything. "In your eyes, the light-the heat, in your eyes I am complete". (In finding that eternal source of Love:) Silently meditatating in devotion and humbleness I dive deeply to find God, reaching out deeply within. "Without a noise.without my pride.I reach out from the inside". The grand facade of this material world, of separateness from Source burns away. in meditation the five senses are turned inward. "All my instincts, they return.the grand facade.". "I come back to the place you are".I sit in silence. "When I want to run away" the restless mind makes it hard to hear the voice of peace "Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart" nothing feels like the peace that is God, once you experience it, life pales in comparison. "Love, I get so lost sometimes".lost in this shallow world of material delusion and suffering I was meditating and suddenly thought of these lyrics. I'm so sorry for your loss and yes, I believe the endless, limitless Beloved can be found in this song. Unregistered, Jan 3., I never thought anyone else would hear what I hear. The only resolution for all my pain is to live surrendered in his embrace, going forward ever in the light, the heat, in his eyes. My searches for comfort there have indeed been mostly fruitless. There he is, in ways that could never be contained even a thousand churches. Gloriously, right there is god's love ablaze, ready always. It's allowing my instincts to return to fully feel anything. It's the scariness of letting down my guard against my pain, the pride that gets us through the day in a world that doesn't stop turning for my grief. I get so tired working for my children's and my survival. The grand facade of dry eyes and wholeness and strength that my young children need now can only melt away when I can myself be fully vulnerable in his presence to experience the only place that is truly home, in his eyes. It can only be my heavenly father's eyes that in my brokenness I am complete. My husband has died young, then the friend in my life who I loved and who once knew more of me than anyone else has abandoned me. And there is no one to even be a drop in that ocean of emptiness in this moment. M in loneliness that can't ever be fully filled by mere humanity. I lay here in bed, not sleeping, but rather, weeping at 3 A. It is about a profound aching for the love that can only come from our lord of lords. I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away The resolution of all the fruitless searches Gabriel has shared that many people have informed him over the years that listening to this song helped them change their mind about committing suicide.Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart Gabriel saw a parallel between the ravaged Depression-era farmers and those suffering from the economic downturn in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain – he wrote the song as the narrative of a man who’d lost his job to Thatcher’s economic policies. Gabriel discovered her photography through a book of FSA photography titled In This Proud Land.
The song is inspired by the Depression-era photography of Dorothea Lange.
Peter Gabriel’s original choice for the duet was Dolly Parton, but she turned the offer down – something he was later thankful for in light of how well the song turned out with Bush’s vocals. The song is a duet with Kate Bush, who’d sang backup on Gabriel’s third album, commonly known as Melt. It was a top 10 hit in the UK, Belgium and The Netherlands, and a minor hit in the US. “Don’t Give Up” is the fifth single released from Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album So.