I love “aha” moments. Light bulb moments that go ding, ding, ding in your head. I like experiencing those moments as often they are so silly and give you a moment of levity in an otherwise heavy day. I also enjoy seeing other people experience that lightbulb moment. Particularly in zoom meetings where I am tempted draw word clouds over people’s heads. But I digress.
Back on track. I was on Twitter looking at trending topics and I saw that Peter Gabriel (the singer) was trending. I love Peter Gabriel. I love the songs “Shock the Monkey”, “Games without Frontiers”, and “Solsbury Hill”. to name a couple. And, of course who does not like “in your eyes” made forever famous in the movie Say Anything. Ah, the boom box. The boom box! Specifically, in the 1989 film “Say Anything,” John Cusack’s character Lloyd Dobler romances Diane Court by holding a boombox playing In Your Eyes over his head. Anyway, I love Peter Gabriel. The twitterverse was asking who was better in the band Genesis Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins. Now I’d be willing to bet a lot less people know that Peter Gabriel fronted Genesis than those who know Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel. Anyway, doesn’t matter.
My main point is coming forward. In reading through the tweets, I finally came to understand what the song Sledgehammer means. D’oh! How could I have gone so long without knowing. I could only shake my head at myself.
Here are a few of the lyrics
“You could have a steam train
If you’d just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back
All you do is call me
I’ll be anything you need
I wanna be your sledgehammer
Why don’t you call my name?
Ah oh, let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Yeah (yeah)”
I was shocked at myself that I could have been so obtuse. So naive. I really did think if the song as a motivator. Someone who pressed forward. Yeah, go ahead and laugh at me. I am.
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psychologistmimi 
Oh Gosh i Love ‘That Video’ of
‘The Old Version of Peter Gabriel’
Hehe yes About 9 or So Years
Younger than me now BacK in
2003 at 53, Then With His
Star Clad Night
Sky Dancing
Outfit on
Playing the Part
of ‘Sledgehammer’
Providing Inspiration
of Art As Silence of Dance
Brings Beauty of Song This Way
As True We aRe aLL Star Stuff This
Way too As Carl Sagan So Poetically Dances
And Sings Rather Stilted Yet Still With Starry EYes
It’s True Some of Us
Feel Great Star
Power Yet
Are Not
Able to Spread
Stars The Same Way
to Others to Fly Higher
And Then There are Super
Nova Explosions that Come
That Are Just to Overwhelming
When The ‘Sledgehammer’ Becomes
To Big to See Never the Less Iron From
Super Nova Explosions Still Flows Through
Our Blood Streams And Holds The Core of Earth
Magnetically
Together
With
Smiles
As Metaphor
of Course Now True too…
i Recently Used The Video
‘Shock The Monkey’ By the
Younger Version of Peter Gabriel too…
Meh, i Dance Silently And BRing
Beauty BacK iN Song No Matter
How Much
Shock
Comes
First in Life…
Gonna Use ’99 Luft
Balloons’ By ‘Nena’ too
It’s True Modern Poet Dancers
Prophet Singers Archetypes
of Existence All the Metaphors
All the Myths All the Vehicles and
Vessels of Truth in DarK And LiGHT
Art
Still Silently Dancing From Before
Bringing Story Song in Beauty
And Dungeon
of Human
Now
Again…
With or
Without
Bigger
Ending Story
SPOiler Bombs
As If The Price of
Gas Going Up A Buck
Is The Frigging End of the World…
Not Really able to Roll my EYes
HiSToRiCally
Understanding
“Nature of the Beast”
“Instant Gratification” STiLL For Real..:)
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I love Solsbury Hill. It is my favorite by P. Gabriel. When I first heard it I thought it was a religious song. You”re not the only one who completely misinterprets things.
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Haha. How funny. But makes song listening even more interesting:-)
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Umm. I had no idea either ! 🤔 Apparently I don’t listen to lyrics
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