Peter Gabriel – Down To Earth

Sejak pertama menyaksikan Toy Story (1995), saya sudah jatuh cinta pada film-film keluaran Pixar. Yah, meski tak seproduktif pesaingnya dalam jumlah film, menurut saya karya Pixar jauh lebih matang dalam kualitas konsep dan ide cerita.
Dari sekian karya mereka, WALL•E menurut saya layak dianggap sebagai yang terbaik. Minimalis dalam dialog, tapi begitu maksimal dalam membawa penontonnya berkontemplasi. Film yang sangat saya rekomendasikan untuk ditonton sekeluarga, namun lebih direkomendasikan lagi untuk ditonton sendiri.

Lagu berikut dijadikan lagu penutup di film tersebut, dibawakan oleh mantan dedengkot Genesis, Peter Gabriel.

Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground?
Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
Well, come on down

All those rules don’t apply
When you’re high in the sky
So, come on down
Come on down

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow up on the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground
We hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

Did you think you’d escaped from routine
By changing the script and the scene?
Despite all you made of it
You’re always afraid
Of the change

You’ve got a lot on your chest
Well, you can come as my guest
So come on down
Come on down

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow up on the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground
We hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

Like the fish in the ocean
We felt at home in the sea
We learned to live off the good land
Learned to climb up a tree
Then we got up on two legs
But we wanted to fly
When we messed up our homeland
We set sail for the sky

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow up on the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground
We hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

We’re coming down
Coming down to Earth
Like babies at birth
Coming down to Earth
We’re gonna find new priorities
These are extraordinary qualities

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow up on the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground
We hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

We’re coming down to the ground
There’s no better place to go
We’ve got snow up on the mountains
We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground
We hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the breeze

We’re gonna find new priorities
These are extraordinary qualities

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Taken from Peter Gabriel – OST Wall-E” (2008)