Peter Gabriel - Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Extended Mix)

From the 2023 album i/o comes this wonderful song with so much emotion. This is Peter Gabriel's last song on this album and it's a real goodie. I was hearing that people enjoyed the outro section of this song, but the common consensus was that the outro section was very good but too short, and people were commenting that they wished that it was longer, so I have extended it out further to make the outro longer. Hopefully people will enjoy it.

Lyrics included if you scroll down this page. Enjoy.

Monday 27 November 2023, the twelfth full moon of 2023, sees the release of the final track to be revealed from Peter Gabriel’s new album i/o. This final song, the last to be written for the album, is called Live and Let Live.

This is an extended version of the newly released Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix).

The lyrics of the song are about the pain of holding onto something that is hurting you and the freedom that comes with letting it go. This is a beautiful and very fitting song for the state that the world is in right now. So much hate, so much division and so much fighting. 'Live and Let Live' can take you to emotional places if you listen properly & just let it take you there. Go with it and feel it!

In a break from previous months, all three mixes are released simultaneously, the Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake and the Bright-Side Mix by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent.

The Dolby Atmos In-Side Mix was mixed by Hans-Martin Buff which can be found by buying the Blu-Ray Audio version or by streaming music services such as Amazon Music and Apple Music

The song is accompanied by the striking ‘Soundsuit’ artwork of Chicago based artist Nick Cave.

Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, Live and Let Live is a song about forgiveness, tolerance and optimism. A joyous, rousingly positive, closing note for the album.

Live and Let Live, the last song to have been written for the album, features contributions from many players already heard on other songs, such as Tony Levin, David, Rhodes, Manu Katché, Brian Eno, Melanie Gabriel, John Metcalfe and the New Blood Orchestra. Notable other contributions come from Steve Gadd ‘wonderful grooves created with brushes’ that are looped at the start of the song, some beautiful trumpet by Paolo Fresu ‘soulful and poetic’ and the return of the singers of Soweto Gospel choir ‘great voices and this deep soulfulness, their additions are always wonderful.’

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Live and Let Live (Dark-Side Mix) LYRICS

[Verse 1]
Just how much does it have to hurt
Before you let go the pain?
Just how deep does it have to be
Before you yearn to be free again?
Every wound can lock you away
You can walk or you can choose to remain
Everyday can pass you by
While you were holding the key

[Chorus]
This is how it turns
This is what we do
This is who we are
When we forgive we can move on
Release all the shackles one by one
We belong to the burden until it's gone

[Verse 2]
Just how long do you want to hate
With all that anger to burn?
You dream of revenge
And you dream a reply
You hope that someday we learn
Every time you think of that hurt
It spins around in your mind
With an eye for an eye
Again and again
Until the whole world is blind

[Chorus]
This is how it turns
This is what we do
This is who we are
When we forgive we can move on
Release all the shackles one by one
We belong to the burden until it's gone

[Outro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Lay the burden down
I'm gonna lay the weapons down
Lay the burden down
William Blake wakes his sting, drawing out Martin Luther King
Tutu and Madiba saying rainbows still exist
The voice of the Elders coming through the mist
Lay the burden down
(Lay the weapons down)
Lay the burden down
(Lay the weapons down)

It takes courage (Courage)
To learn to forgive
To be brave enough to listen
To live and let live

It takes courage (Courage)
To learn to forgive
To be brave enough to listen
To live and let live
It takes courage (Courage)
To start to forgive
To be brave enough to listen
To live and let live, let live
Let live, let live
Let live and let live

It takes courage (Courage)
To learn to forgive
To be brave enough to listen
To live and let live, let live
(Live and let live, let live)
Let live
(Live and let live, let live)
(Live and let live, let live)
Live and let live
Live and let live
Live and let live
Let live