“All my instincts, they return.
And the grand façade, so soon will burn.
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside.”

— Peter Gabriel

In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)

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English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

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