PETER GABRIEL: WE WON'T STAND DOWN

This is not the way we want to live

It's not the way it has to be
This is not the way we want to live

It's not the way it has to be

[Chorus]
But we won't stand down
Until there's something better showing on the ground
No, we won't stand down
Until the job is done

'We Won't Stand Down' (Bright side mix) was released on May 1 and is the fifth song from Gabriel's forthcoming album o/i. Gabriel hopes the song will inspire people to take action toward justice and democracy.

'It's really a song to encourage some form of activism,' he says. 'I think people generally respond much better to positive pictures of what’s coming than they do when they are bombarded and scared by negative ones. We are much more likely to engage if we feel hope. Right now, we don't see so many positive visions of the future, at least they're not being projected so strongly as the negative, so I think it's really important that we start looking for visions to which we can aspire and looking for people who can provide that.'