Downside Up Lyrics

Lyric discussion by coosess 

Cover art for Downside Up lyrics by Peter Gabriel

Based on how Peter Gabriel desribes this song in his DVD Growing Up, I think its a play on how much we rely on our own physical laws here on our tiny planet. Perhaps after death or within some type of metaphysical self-discovery we can truly understand that there's more powers that be and that love can exsist throughout the Universe.

If I remember, In the DVD PG imagines laying on the ground gazing at the stars and imagining everything flipped.

My Interpretation

I think you got it cooses. You articulated what was swirling around in my head. Love, as hard as it is to define, certainly defies our known laws of nature, thus it can exist throughout the universe and beyond. What we relate to as up or down, in the world of love, can be juxtaposed, in an orgy of up and down, in and out, back and forth, never and forever.