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  • From a Father to his daughters ....from a daughter to a father, sons and mothers we will miss...We ALL grieve. We are stronger now but it never goes away. Shall we never forget those we have lost! I love you all. Please watch this .. :)

    R.I.P. 9/11/01 we will Never forget!

  • I'll never forget. I was at work, teaching HS. The PA system came on to the radio, & then the principal told usto head to the SS wing where the TVs were so we could watch, all classes were cancelled, the whole area was under lock down. We were afraid we were at war, with the base & the power plant right there, we figured we would be the next target. It was so horrible. All of us telling each other that we loved each other - afraid we were saying goodbye forever ...

  • The US government has alot of explaining to do for the deaths of the people on9/11 and for the countless people suffering because of their loss.

  • for my dad RIP

    

  • I have known this artist since Phil Collins and Genesis were together. He has some awesome songs. I will admit some of his stuff is not my cup of tea, but the stuff I like from him is pretty powerful.

  • This is the most touching song about grief I have ever heard. Peter's lyrics always seem to be able reach in and directly touch the heart.. Right to the thing that most can relate to, I think. I know most associate this tune with what happened on 9/11. But, I think that maybe it could also help the folks who lost loved ones in the devastating Alabama tornados last month. My heart goes out to them. God Bless all who read this.

  • Probably the most touching song about grief that I have heard. Peter's lyrics always seem to hit home with me. What a great writer!

    I just ran across this song for the first time in a good while. I know many justly associate this song with what happened on 9/11.

    But I have thought that maybe it could also help those who have lost loved ones in the horrible tornados that tore through Alabama last month. My heart goes out to them. I live in AL and have met some who were affected. Terrible situati

  • tears at your heart. amazing lyrics.

  • The only thing that makes sense now is to cry.......... :-( I cry for you Japan.... this is for me too hard to witness and I grieve for you Japan.

  • rachel zee was one of the terrorists

  • Another masterpiece---I'm so fortunate that as a 14 year old kid i picked up an

    album called The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway just because i liked the cover art

    and i had like 12 bucks to blow----Been with me ever since. Go buy a Genesis cd

    especialy from 1971 to 1975. Peter in his magical , youthfull exhuberance. Enjoy the ride!

  • One Of the most powerful son Gabriel ever wrote

  • Incredible Larry, It was fantastic choice. Lovely and tochy song.

  • i GRIEVE

    

  • amazing song

  • that is really astonishishing that a few people with instruments can reach down in to the depths of dispair then bring you back up in a couple of minutes great great song

  • Peter and Angie Aparo are two masters of music... that are underrated.. we are the ones to blame... we pay attention to nasty shits... while we have things like this..... this is just beautiful... somedays i spend singin this.. with no grief feelings... but i do it just for the beauty of the song....

  • My best friend was killed in an accident over 10 years ago. I'd play this song over and over, it was the only thing that helped me when i felt swallowed up by world that had become too big and dark. i miss him!

  • i always thought this song about his father?? not 9/11. doesnt everyone know about the truth of 9/11? our own govt and c.i.a. planted bombs inside the trade centers and building # 7,along with the taliband!! and the plane that hit the pentagon-was a boeing missle plan(us air force) with a missle on the bottom of plane!!(the plan had no windows) if no one believes me-google: inside job-9/11!!!!!!! sorry for the truth...i know it hurts!!

  • i liked peter before this, but i am shocked that he bought this 911 bullshit .hmm he is a humans rights activist? Why not write a few songs to honer all thoose 100000s innocent civilians who has been murdered and lifes torn apart, so america can steal more land and oill, oh yeah god bless the United Hate of a America.

  • Anyone who has heard Peter Gabriel's music, knows that everything he sings/writes and sings has always been so very heartfelt. Even when he was in Genisis with Phil Colins...that is yet another musician who is rarely credited in the Music Industry. But Peter Gabriel has always been one of my favorites when it comes to emotions coming across through music. This is one of his best.

  • My WHOLE family died over 3 years. It expresses how I felt & sometimes still do. Like birthdays & Christmas. You still grieve for those you love. It never goes away. You just put it away in a drawer so you can go on. Sometimes you have open that drawer because you miss them so much and those memories are all you have.The only way you can be with them again for a little while. Memories are sweet, but a price is paid for visiting them-because when you put them back away you grieve all over again.

  • @Vengenceisviper Bless your heart. I have lost both parents, and you are right, it never ever goes away. We have to just go through the motions & put one foot in front of the other. I dream of Home & both parents almost every night. I had to move away because it was too hard to live there without them.

  • there is so much talk about 9/11 every year on this day and so many remembrances and yet it all seems to be so predictable and almost ritual-like at this point that I just seem to tune it all out. Then I thought to watch this video and it seems so heartfelt and brings back all the memories from that day in a powerful way. I know he didn't write it about 9/11 but it is associated with that day for me.

  • Brilliant, thank you very much for uploading this, never seen the live version of this song previously. Great great song.

  • Brilliant, thank you very much for uploading this, never seen the live version of this song previously. Great great song.

  • Brilliant, thank you very much for uploading this, never seen the live version of this song previously. Great great song.

  • Brilliant, thank you very much for uploading this, never seen the live version of this song previously. Great great song.

  • Brilliant, thank you very much for uploading this, never seen the live version of this song previously. Great great song.

  • A moving and fitting song to remind everyone of the 9/11 tradgedy. Play it loud and fill your head. Fantastic

  • Peter is so amazing and his art is timeless and his voice legendary.....God Bless you and yours Peter~

  • To the goobers who gave this a thumbs down, you must not have grieved yet in this life.

  • I rediscovered this song after the recent death of my mother. I have cried so much: for her, our past, my sisters, mu children and a future that she will never see and we will not share. Oh it hurts.

    When he sings ‘it is so hard to move one…life goes on’ he speaks to a higher place. As the poet Philip Larkin discovered on a tomb in Arundel, England "What will survive of us is love".

    This song helps. Life does go on. Cherish every moment.

  • My 81 year old father is dying of terminal cancer, death is days away. I heard this while travelling on a long a haul flight last week.... so profound, so sincere, so beautiful.... I cried. His last I grieve, a howl, is how I felt.

    Peter, Mr Gabriel, you brought me some peace this weekend. Thank you. I've been a fan for decades, but this is your very best.

  • @brickpet

    And may your findings in music be always so enlightening brickpet.

  • Gabriel's concluding couplet "Did I dream this belief, or did I believe this dream" is such a wonderfully purposeful and universally echoing question that each need to ask ourselves. A contemplative thought at the end of a song wrought with emotion.

  • EXCELENTE!!!!

  • Amazing song for those left behind

  • Bravissimo, Peter!!

    My all time music hero. Thanks for putting music in our lives.

  • This song is so filled with emotion, with sensitivity, Gabriel is not only a fabulous musician but a true poet of the human condition.

  • PG is the greatest !

  • I lost my mother that year, Peter. Thank you for putting to music the sound of a breaking heart.

  • why did they have to edit it?!?!?!

    oh well still a fantastic song even though its missing some great sections

  • Freakin' Awesome song! Awesome Live Performance!

  • Amazing! I had never seen this Larry King video. I also didn't know the song was about 911. I saw him at Staples Center in LA for the Up Tour. So good!

  • Amazing! I had never seen this Larry King video. I also didn't know the song was about 911. I saw him at Staples Center in LA for the Up Tour. So good!

  • Amazing! I had never seen this Larry King video. I also didn't know the song was about 911. I saw him at Staples Center in LA for the Up Tour. So good!

  • Amazing! I had never seen this Larry King video. I also didn't know the song was about 911. I saw him at Staples Center in LA for the Up Tour. So good!

  • This is one very strong song for dealing with emotions.

  • Pick any element of the human condition, and Peter Gabriel has probably written a song that expresses it perfectly.

  • prachtig en meer

  • the NEW Peter Gabriel-album "Scratch my Back" will be out VERY SOON - the middle of February in Europe and beginning of March in the USA.

  • Been à fan since 1983. He still amaze me. Checkout hos lagrat DVD live. Its music at its best.

  • That voice.... Wow

  • You're giving me goosebumps again Peter! Beautiful voice. Still my favourite artist. By the way if anyone likes this track, you'll find it on the soundtrack for the Nic Cage / Meg Ryan movie "City of Angels".

  • He doesn't have a song with any grief or anguish? Uh, what was Biko? In your eyes?

  • god bless them all

  • love you pete

  • thank you peter i love ur music

  • who is peter gabriel?

    just kidding.... i'm a huge fan. but seriously, i did kinda forget about 9/11 already. :/

  • so different to the sound of his voice in the 70's with Genesis. he went from having a pretty high pitched voice, to a pretty deep voice. You'd think it was two different people.

  • I can never hear this song without a lump in my throat; Peter Gabriel is one of the finest musicians we have. He is a true man of conscience as well, a man of peace and forgiveness. Check out his human rights work. He is a mensch.

  • okay...is rhodes in pajamas?

  • beautiful

  • DON'T FORGET!!

  • My son and I made it through the terror, the tragedy, but not the trauma of the WTC, so we moved to a sweet little town in NNY where Zachary 20 was killed by a drunk driver in 08...

  • Goodness, it took a 9/11 to put this guy on TV.

    Well, gee, thanks.

    This fellow Gabriel has been around since, what, 1969, and hardly anyone knows of his career and what he's done musically.

    Check out his early career. You've seen nothing like it.

  • He's never believed in doing whatever it takes to get on TV. If he did this for LKL he really believed in what he was doing, which makes it worth all that much more. Gabriel doesn't do publicity stunts. Definitely a great moment you captured mjdeere.

  • Ah, beautiful Peter as always, thank you.x

  • speechless....

  • Such sthones.. Good song man..

  • Ahh Levin with the Funk Fingers!!! Sweet.

  • Peter is a beautiful human being so much history an so much creative excellence! a true angel!

  • such a genuine man, such heart and beauty! love you peter!

  • Musypucker: Exactly - good call. great talent on a loser's show.

  • I cry every time I hear this!  Pure emotion!

  • PLEASE MR GABRIEL THINK

  • a true meaning song,sad but beautiful

  • I loved it...these people commenting should pick their noses and move...very silly comments for something so serious. My goodness

  • I think the word you're looking for is TROGLODYTE". Haha... "Trilobyte". Old Fart, I call him. I can't stand Larry King.

  • trilobyte is an extinct animal

  • Peter Gabriel - LIVE AT WOMAD 2009 England - July 25th. - "I Grieve" should be performed !

  • 02:19 what instrument is that?

  • i wanna know what that one instrument is... 2:19

  • amazing piece. Art in human form. Peter Gabriel will forever be known of, unless forever stops....:/

  • What a fucking great voice. Un-be-liev-able!!!

  • I couldn't help but cry while listening to this.

  • Spot on just about to the cd. Incredible song by an insanely talented singer/songwriter.

  • Peter is a master of light and life, an incomparable musician and an artist from beyond!

  • i SHED TEARS OF BLOOD AND MISS MY MOTHER MORE THAN LIFE...TELL YOUR LOVED ONES YOU LOVE THEM BEFORE ITS TO LATE

  • a true artist!

  • excellent work peter

    it was only one hour ago

    it was all so different then

  • Sublimeeeee..... I just watched Peter live last night here in Mexico City. Would have loved to hear this song but it was great anyway!

  • apenas paso hace una hora, todo era tan diferente,nada tiene sentido, todo parece como siempre fue,esta carne y huesos, es solo la manera como eramos de unidos, pero ya no hay nadie en casa, Sufro por ti,me dejaste, estan facil olvidar, sigo queriendo a quien se fue, dicen que la vida sigue, sigue y sigue y sigue,la noticia que mas duele es esa pagina vacia vacia, de ese suspiro final que deja el cuerpo vacio y ya no puedo aguantar esto mas, Sufro por ti, me dejaste,

  • I can't believe how well this sounds for being a live recording that was broadcast on Larry King. Sounds just like the CD. That's a lot of sound for how few people are performing.

  • he is one of the only real performers left

  • 04:45 - that's when it becomes a "real" Gabriel tune... Groovy!

  • A lot of Peter Gabriel tunes is just like that. It ends with a great hook and goes into something groovy. A song called No Way Out, also from the album Up, is like that...:)

  • Also, on the original studio version that last chord's left at a suspended 9th, so you don't get the complete minor chord. I wasn't expecting the minor third, so it sent a massive chill down my whole body. and that last "I grieve" was devestating.

  • Let it out and move on! oh no, they missed that out. still. Gabriel = God

  • yea hes no god ...hes good but dont call him a god

  • ...grieving for humanity. What a beautiful tribute!

    He is truly in touch with the masses! He speaks for us!

  • Peter a true musician!

  • I concur, he is my favorite artist of all time, he always has this way of capturing emotion that never ceases to amaze me, even today.

  • god that is saddly beautiful

  • Thanks for posting and for alerting me to this.

    Great!

  • beautiful...

    we remember all the friends we lost that day...

  • El 18 d Marzo vendra a Venezuela por 2da vez!! I can hardly wait !! Por fin !!!

  • ilove this amazing song!!

    namaste!!

  • The bridge is genius. I love the walking bass.

  • What is it for kind of flute?

  • incredible

  • what a increadble musician and song! my girlfriend of ten years dumped me and this really hits home. its so hard to move on,loving someone thats gone!

  • Just like me... Go on man, never hide, never surrender

  • what a increadble musician,and song! my girlfrined of ten years dumped me and this really hits home

  • SOoooooo moving..... perfect tribute for such a sad day.

    This song always makes me think of Steve Irwin, too.... I still miss him to this day.

  • Thanks for posting this video and song. My dad dies in 1996...this song and Puff Daddy's "missing you" both epitomize how I feel when I think of my father.

  • e to i feel exactly the same as u ouff dadys i chose puff daddys i'll be missin u for my dads funeral coz it sums up everythingboth these songs do puff daddy is i'll miss miss u and this is sayin life goes on even tho u dont want it to :(

    i love u dad

    and i am sorry for your loss too

  • This song reminds me of my father, too.

    He died when I was 19 years old and he was 85. But I still was in shock when he passed away.

    Now I miss him with a smile on my face!!!

    Life carries on and on!!!

    Because, no matter what, he´ll stay with me forever and ever!!!

  • absolutely fantastic. Pure genious

  • i grieve for the world, not for america not for a flag, not for a nation, but for us as a whole people. we are the ones that suffer!

  • You wrote my very thought. Thank you.

    This song touches me deeply.

  • Best voice on the planet alive!

    Was then is now...

  • The wandering message says "Sometimes I have to think the World needs more Peter Gabriel's"

    I think that ALL the time

  • Awesome song! Peter is one of the rare musical greats in this world of today.

  • I love that so sad song.......I love Peter Gabriel

  • I grew up with peter gabriel's songs. Made me soft and strong at the same time (in a good way). Peter, thanks...

  • Awesome song!raw emotion..

  • Phil Collins'version of Genesis is shit.

  • haha

  • My little brother was in the USA, his flight was cancelled, told me his life was blessed but knew he escaped. He died on 9.11 2007 in scotland, so sad:(

  • what is the flutes name?

    PLZ :)

  • Sometimes I have to think the World needs more Peter Gabriel's

  • more Peter Gabriel's and also more John Lennon's

  • Peter Gabriel's Don't give up did the same for me back in 1989. His art goes deep in the soul of the ones who truly listen.

  • This is so emotional!

  • Good Peter left Genesis so Phil Collins could make Genesis the brilliant band they are, and good Peter left, so he could develop his own talent and solocareer. No question of his talent. Genius..... "so hard to move on - still loving what´s gone" gotta love it

  • I love the dark nature of the first part of the song, and how it transitions into this life affirming upbeat nature, and ends with "now I can find relief..."

    What a perfect song about the journey through grieving processes...

  • wow....

  • Life carries on and on and on

  • Quality!

  • SAD

  • Peter has a pure heart. That's all I have to say.

  • nearing the anniversary of 9/11 this song remains as a great tribute to ALL who have lost someone or something soo very dear. "I greive for you". So hard to move on, still lovin what's gone......

  • PETER GABRIEL Sings with the voice of the love and sorrow. His music is the transcendence of the soul. His words are beauty and pain all in the same. Thank you Peter for the gift of your beautiful music

  • Love this song- I am glad that Peter recorded again for the "Up" album- it was way too good simply to be a soundtrack item (City Of Angels-1997). As for the aging- happens to all of us. Without the wizard beard and a black toupee I suppose he could still look like he was in his forties, but why? Life carries on....

  • heard this on smallville

  • I know it's awesome!

  • actually, think he aged quite well

  • Essence, depth, intelligence. A rare mix you don't find in most of today's musicians and the corporations running the music industry for the simplistic youth of today. Gabriel is a master or emotion in his music. Just great.

  • Shame on you readynow12345, Peter Gabriel is 60 and beautiful. His music is genius. I have been a fan since Genesis. He was the originator of Alternitave Rock, and launched the socially conscious music that has been missing since the 60's. All of the Grunge Sound and New Metal is based on his work.

  • Boy it sucks to get older, Poor peter didn't age well.

  • Maybe physically, but his voice is just as good as it was during the Genesis days.

  • boy, you just missed the point didn't you. (rolls eyes)

  • "BOY" - readynow12345, "it sucks" to be immature and shallow even worse. Let's see a picture of you when YOU hit 60; and furthermore I bet you WISH you were as "POOR" as Peter. His talent, actions, and beauty-of-mind has taken him farther than you could even fantasize. How many thumbs-down are you striving for, anyway? I won't do that because I want others to see your childish comment.

  • 'Mahalo' to 'OXMUSTUBE' (!) for directing me to this; wish i'd have seen it right after 9/11...would've helped...in fact, i defy anyone to listen to it and remain dry-eyed!...but those tears shed are 'worth shedding', because it's so cathartic...

    Am currently mourning the loss of my most beloved pet (of nearly 20 years...longer than most marriages!!) so this sort of 'music therapy' most definitely helps....the missing hurts so very much, but indeed - 'Life carries on'...as indeed it must.

    ;)

  • to EveKauai - my condolences on the loss of your beloved pet. i found this thru a grief site as myself had lost my soulmate of 30 years; a long and precious marriage. music like this has been my saving grace. i wish you peace!

  • 'Mahalo' to 'Oxmustube' for directing me to this....wish i'd seen it right after 9/11, would've helped...in fact, i defy anyone to listen to this dry-eyed; but it's so cathartic, those tears are 'worth' shedding, y'know?

    Am currently mourning the loss of my most beloved pet of nearly 20 years (that's longer than most marriages!!) so 'music therapy' really helps at a time like this...thanx for sharing.

  • one of the only tracks that makes me cry whenever i hear it.

    so beautifull.

    so so sad, but beautifull.

    x

  • Thank you Peter Gabriel...I lost my brother (age 44, massive heart attack). This song says it all. I grieve...

  • He looks much different than he did in 1986 when he did Sledgehammer .. assuming this is the same guy from Genesis, right? :D

  • Correct!

    ...and there are 16 years between 86 and 02, so that would explain the looking 'much different'...

    ;)

  • PETER is fantastic.

    A masterpiece.

    I love this song. Always on my tought

  • PG is one of the few artists that make me really stop and think. even through great rifs and beats he has something very sincere to say most of the time. here comes the flood is really one of the most emotional songs written imo.

  • Peter Gabriel is my favorite artist precisely because of this. His songs are so multi-faceted.

  • I keep watching this every few weeks, its so beautiful and heart wrenching, its funny but we choose how to suffer and remember that day in so many different ways. It makes me mad at Bush for taking his eye off the target sorry to get political

  • very very sad :(

  • First time I have seen this one. The man is brilliant and thank God I have seen him live....Long Live Peter!!

  • I am totally blowed away. Master of Music...

  • Simple perfect :)

  • "It would be interested to have the opinion of Cat yusuf islam Stevens, PG's friend, about sept 11th; don't you think?"

    You sir, are an ignorant.

  • every time i hear this song i cry like a baby and i cant help it...especially since my girlfriend left me 6 months ago i still think of her so much :(

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  • amen

  • AWESOME!

  • One of the few voices in rock that can always give one chills. His music is a joy for all to hear.I never thought of the 9/11 ramifications of this song but it hits home.

  • As much as I love this song, I never quite trusted it. I always thought he was too complex and dramatic to express a concept so directly. Still gives me chills though.