Down to Earth

"Down to Earth" is a song written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman for the Disney animated film Wall-E. Gabriel performs the song with the Grammy Award winning Soweto Gospel Choir. It was nominated for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture at the 2009 Academy Awards.

Peter Gabriel was going to perform "Down to Earth" at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 22 but canceled his performance in protest over the Best Song nominees having to perform together as part of a medley. The show's organized allotted Gabriel a mere 65 seconds of performance time.BBC: Peter Gabriel pulls out of Oscars (February 17, 2009) The 2009 Best Song Academy Award went to A.R. Rahman for "Jai Ho."

"Down to Earth" received nominations for Best Original Song at the 66th Golden Globe Awards and Best Original Song at the 81st Academy Awards. It won a Grammy for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture.BBC: Peter Gabriel pulls out of Oscars (February 17, 2009)

• 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
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• iTunes: Peter Gabriel "Down to Earth"

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• Rhapsody: "Down to Earth" featuring The Soweto Gospel Choir

• YouTube: Best Song Performances

• YouTube Video: Peter Gabriel "Down to Earth" (Time 5:51)