One listen where I threw myself into the song.
I think there’s a transition here that’s not as smooth as I’d like. However, it is one that I appreciate. A lot of this just describes the song, but toward the end I started prying a little deeper and I like that I was able to get there, even if it was brief.

Peter Gabriel’s “The Drop” is from UP.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys gently played, up in the higher spaces, seemingly slowly descending, ringing out into space. Echoing, or rather drawing out, playing with silence. From a lower position they then briefly rise whilst vocals gradually creep into clarity. The space remains, though diminished.

Seemingly fragile, the vocals continue on, moving on top of the keys, and seemingly the melody starts linking with itself more, but then the vocals disappear and there’s some space and the keys are there, alone.

The keys begin to fill again and it’s not long before the vocals return, clear, but quiet. Fragile still. Old and worn, and soft, and fragile, and maybe reminiscing. Maybe sinking into a melancholy through some sort of realisation that within the banal was the fantastic.

Not long after all sound stops and the song ends.