Peter Gabriel - The Book of Love
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- 'The Book of Love' was written by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields and features on Peter's album 'Scratch My Back'.
The 'Scratch My Back' album, released in 2010, was conceived as a songwriters exchange project where Peter covered some of his favourite songs and in return the artists he chose would then cover one of his songs. The reciprocal album 'And I'll Scratch Yours' was released in 2013.
This version of 'The Book of Love' was arranged by Nick Ingman with Peter Gabriel and Will Gregory and features the vocals of Melanie Gabriel.
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Scratch My Back tracklisting:
Heroes
The Boy In The Bubble
Mirrorball
Flume
Listening Wind
The Power Of The Heart
My Body Is A Cage
The Book of Love
I Think It's Going To Rain Today
Apres Moi
Philadelphia
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Hudba
I love my wife so much, this song makes me think of her. I have surgery for Stage 3 Colon Cancer in a week and a half and sometimes I can see me getting over it and living til I am old with her... But other times, I wonder if I don't have long left. When I hear this song though, it makes me feel so lucky to have her next to me.
Love is the greatest motivator.
Hope you’ve got through the surgery with no further complications and you’re all healthy and enjoying your life with your beloved wife. Wish you a healthy and long life 🤗
Prayers for you my friend.
May God our true God heal you and bless your soul
I'm wishing you the very best, partner. And I want you to have many more happy years with your wife. I know I'm just a stranger that you'll probably never meet but I want you to know that I am rooting for you. Stay strong!
I watched my daughter walk down the aisle to this song. Chokes me every time.
Tweak & Craig - Forever !
Didn‘t expect that😂 nice one
I was looking for this lol thank you so much
Me too
It just turned midnight. Happy Valentine's Day to all of you couples out there. And to the rest of us out there with nobody to share this with, hopefully we all find somebody soon. 🫂
I chose to be alone but I can definitely appreciate a good love song! 😊❤
J.D deserves all the love he seen
I love this song. But it always makes .me cry, it's so beautiful. I found my true love when I was 50 in 2000 and now we are growing old together. He is the love of my life. ❤❤❤
I was 53 and never wanted to be married but we met in 2000 and married in 2003 and for twenty one years we shared a romance and a love that was better than love. I held her as she took her last breath and while time may forget that day my heart will always remember.
❤
@@barrylangweiler9356Siempre siempre juntos estaran .❤
Lo que queda en el Alma no se borra🙏
❤️✨🙏🇦🇷
Yeaaah ❤ makes my day
My parents are in heaven, and I don't have a partner or a husband to speak of, but this song The Book Of Love is so beautiful. I love hearing it over and over. I'm sure many people have delightful memories to share🫠❤️
❤❤❤
ill be your friend. i need a friend too
@marknavarro953 + thank you for your reply. God bless you and have a great weekend.
💓💓💓💓💓🙏🕊
We can all be friends (whom live in different time zones).
This song is so beautiful... it makes me think of my parents who have been married and crazy in love for over 62 years!
you're lucky
Good role models.
@@nic5754 Hey Nicola! I like your name, my name is Nikolai and i promise you will find your soulmate as soon as you stop looking :=)
Makes me think of a nexo knight fanfic
Congrats for you parents ❤❤ xx
I listened to this wonderful song this morning at my bed radio at 05.11. Eighty years ago it was D-Day. So many young people gave their highest sacrifice for our liberation and freedom at the beaches and hills of Normandy. Their book of love was closed far too early. We can't be grateful enough to them.
Their love of freedom was greater than their fear of death. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
This is the first song my late son shared with his wife. She played it while showing pics of him on his funeral. It was a perfect match and made the whole experience very special.
I'm so sorry for your loss. If this song didn't bring tears to my eyes, your comment sure did. I hope it reminds you of all the happy and loving moments your son shared with all of his loved ones.
@@moodyshrew thank you. Yes, I have many lovely memories of his 32 years with us. It was a honor to be his mom
Bless you, Loraine. Not that I'm religious, just that my heart goes out to you.
I’m so sorry to hear that you lost your son. 💕😪
Jetzt muss ich weinen. @@lorainerobberts3851
Peter’s music has been such an important part of my life since his days at Genesis
Thank you Peter
When I hear this song I always see Richard Gere coming up on the travelling staircase, dressed in an elegant suit, with a single red rose in his hand :) (in the film Shall We Dance) A great song in a great movie with a great actor - love you all! Thanks for this beautiful song, Mr Gabriel, it brings tears to my eyes every time.
Damn that movie was ace!
Same feeling my dear, shall we dance is my favourite of all
He was so fine!! 😍😍
Yes yes! I love that movie!😍😍😍
The best movie and actors ever😍
I'm a complicated diabetic.
My fiancée has heart problems and other issues.
I love her more and more every day.
She's the reason I keep on going strong.
Without each other, we really wouldn't know what to do.
This was my wedding song with my once in a lifetime love...lost him too soon to alzheimers....
I don't know why this song makes me emotional. I just start crying whenever I play the song. It's basically one of my favorites 💕💕💕💕
I don't know you and we've never met, but I know why! it's because you are great... And Peter Gabriel's voice connects directly to the heart and soul.
Your not alone...
Heard it on a movie soundtrack
Same here
Because life is all about love and deep down you know that. This song taps into that feeling, it's almost a spiritual experience.
When my wife and I were dating 16 years ago, I sent this song to her and she said she almost drove off the road when she heard it! We played it as she walked down the aisle at our wedding, it will always be our song.
Whenever I hear this song I just think of JD looking into his future at the front of Sacred Heart.
I know that season 9 does not exist in my eyes either.
+djzielin agreed!
I always think of Tweek and Craig in South Park :)
And then I cry
wow! thats all i have to say about that
Yup, I can still use this song to cry uncontrollably on command. I try to check in every year or so.
I literally can't even listen to this song because It immediately makes me cry
Dalla prima volta che l'ascoltai oramai tanti anni fa, decisi che sarebbe stata la mia canzone durante le mie nozze. Così è stato. Magica. Grazie maestro.
"And things we're all too young to know"; age is a high price to pay for knowledge and wisdom!
Tibor Roussou Stephen was talking about condoms
That's depressingly true.
As it should be .... nothing good is free or easily obtainable .... it takes effort and time
“We’re all too young to know” implies every human is too young to know.
It certainly is a high price! I want my money back. 😊
This has to be one of the best love songs I have ever heard. It brings me to tears every time.
I like it just the same way 😂, i think 🤔
I just had a cry. I had believed PG wrote it. He sure could've. Anyway, it celebrates his amazing voice do well🧡
@@Ginger57 truth
@@Ginger57 It was written by Stephin Merritt, of The Magnetic Fields. Their original is very different, and many prefer that version.
I think that version is fun, but love this one. I agree with you, Peter's voice is perfectly suited to it!
This cover is a heartrending masterpiece ❤
@@willowbark5649 you are SO right🧡🧡🧡
I am walking down the isle with this song.. I have loved it for years. ❤️
I walked with this song , it was epic
This was my first dance song ❤
Peter Gabriel... he could sing the phone book and it ould sound wonderful. What voice, what emotion!
Lots of comments about how beautiful the song is and how great PG is, but I just want to comment on what a wholesome environment this comment section is. When 99.99% of comment sections are people picking fights with strangers and hating on each other, this wall of support, positivity, empathy and kindness is an oasis in a barren desert.
Tweek X Craig forever. ♡♡♡
South park reference check
Yessss😊
Making me shed some tears here
loool exactly !
Nah fuck that, scrubs forever
We had our wedding last night. We had the instrumental version playing as my wife walked down the aisle, and this version for our first dance.
This song will always have a special place in my heart.
Grats Matt!
That is literally my dream
congrats, sounds like a beautiful wedding, good luck with the marriage!
Congratulations! Love your musical choice.
Congrats man. My wife and I fell in love with this song and it was our first dance song in 2010. Takes me back to that moment every time I hear it!
I walked down the aisle to this almost 2 years ago! My husbands reply to everything about the wedding was "whatever you want". But he picked this song and I am so glad he did! Its beautiful and fit the day and our love perfectly.
Never thought I would say that, but South Park just showed me one of the most beautiful songs ever.
Yes the song "Kyles Mom's a Bitch" is a beautiful tune. Thank you Matt and Trey for giving it to us.
Wow. Ok. I just burst into tears midway through this. Not sure how I made it so many years without ever hearing this one.
Hope you visit us often.
Me too 🥺
Same
Tweek and craig forever
Same.
One of the most beautiful love songs ever.
Everyone connects this song to their spouses and partners. But for some reason it reminds me of my late grandpa, he died this past April and this song really makes me think of him, not sure why. He was like a father to me. I think that’s why this song reminds me of him. We weren’t blood related because my grandma got remarried but we were very close, but still not 100% certain why this song reminds me of him :/
I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m so glad you had him! 💕
@@whitebirchtarot ❤️❤️
The same thing happens to me. I think it's not only a love songs for couples. It's wider. It speaks about facts and figures, daily actions, charts, and so on. Maybe love is not a plain and simple building, it is more complex and needs a lot of engagement. If you do whatever you do with love, you have the best results and even though it may be sometimes boring, it's full of flowers and other mysterious things. Well, maybe... as you wrote, I'm not sure why
@@albertocagnin4332 holy shit you have a way with words😭😭
I love that in the sheet music it says the song should be sung "with wisdom"
That is lovely, thanks for sharing!
True. Might bei overseen. Then we keep complaining: why me...👍🎁☀️
Yep, especially because what is Love without Wisdom or Wisdom without Love. You can Love foolishly and/or too easily which often leads to bad or at least empty relationships. You can be too Wisdom focused which can lead to excessive Logic which then leads to an empty Life. Therefore, you need both together for the best existence. You still need to be open to Love & Companionship yet temper it with Wisdom to prevent Foolish Loves/Relationships. Just like you need the Wisdom to understand that importance.
So true
@@morrigankasa570 más que con sabiduría creo que con sentimiento ❤️✨🙏🇦🇷
Craig x Tweek brought me here and I am so glad it did this song is wonderful!
During the pandemic, my girlfriend and I were living together and we would sing karaoke every night, and this song was one of our frequent "go to" songs. We were apart from May of 22 until Feb of 23, and then we broke up again November of 23, but we still spend time together. I can feel our hearts pulling us back together, god willing, and this song always makes me think of her. I love it when she reads to me.
With all the crazy stuff going on in 2020, at least Tweed x Craig are still together. Together through everything xoxo
Wait, what? No way, cool! 🙂 I just read the Wiki on it, but I'm about to fall asleep, so I couldn't process the article clearly. Did they get together? (TL;DR: my life in 2015 was "complicated" for "TMI reasons", so I'm not in the loop there.)
@@charlesrockafellor4200 Yeah, there's all kinds of Japanese style about it. Tweek x Craig
@@user-bu6wc1ct5b Cool. I still need to catch up with a bunch of it, but I now have a 'ship to root for. 🙂
Say what you will about south park, they can mess with you. The principal looking at a pic her husband... Then going to his grave floored me
@@user-bu6wc1ct5b fun fact the fanart in the episode was made by actual fans of the show who shipped craig and tweek, some of it was made at the request of the creators of south park specifically for that episode!
"To most people love comes naturally, but for some are forced to fight"
Mr. Gabriel is an Angel sent to us for spiritual instruction. It's an intense privilege that we live at the same time as this man.
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
Exactly
The book of love is full of heartache. I'm sorry I couldn't be a better person Ashley. I still love you x
Don't give up. It hurts, but you aren't alone I promise. Seize the day and live.
Right on brother! I feel your oain
This might very well be my favorite rendition of this song. Right in the heart feels every single time. Peter Gabriel has been such a huge part of the soundtrack of my life, this would/will be a great addition.
Mercie MA SISTA!!!thans For evry thig love kiss kiss
Very Moon ..."soundtrack of my life." I LOVE THAT!!!
"soundtrack of my life"😍😊
that was my wedding song ....always makes me smile ,because it s so damn true
This song will raise your vibration spiritually. It’s very ascending and beautiful.
Beautiful. Stephin Merritt is certainly one of the greatest songwriters alive today!
I love this man. I love it when he sings to me.
Lost my dear son on Monday...38...he died on his birthday...this is his music....his tune
I'm so sorry for your loss Sending you all the warmth in the world 💗
so sorru for your loss.... let his music play on....
I’m so sorry for your loss you sound so beautiful
@@aliviaheath9965 thank you honey
@@ritamaree551 Rita thank you honey
For the love of my life, I lost to cancer after 28 wonderful years. And yet for my new love. I hope that I will be the one you need as thesame as I hope that you will be the one I need. I love you. Both of you!
Peter Gabriel is such an amazing talent. I have loved his voice and his music for years. Thank you Peter for an outstanding cover of this song. I love it when you sing to me.
When I heard them use this song in South Park... well, it was perfect. Tweek x Craig forever. ❤️
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I am here again because of Tweek X Craig!!
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Yes, I love Tweek and Craig!
This made me cry. Looked at the comments and I wasn't the only one who felt that way. It moves you in a way you don't expect.
One of the greatest covers ever made. It makes the song even better.
+TheIronicTea Absolutely. Also, what's up Manny Calavera!
Noooooooo The Magnetic Fields’ version is perfection 😍
He did for the Magnetic Fields here kinda like what Jeff Buckley did for Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah... Rare covers where haunting performances made great songwriting resonate across wider times and people. I fkin love music :)
No one else in the whole world could sing this song any better ♥️👍
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. All I want to do is to sing it to my wife at my wedding but I think it's too late to have a wedding and too late to have a wife, and this is a dagger to me. And yet I don't want to live in a universe where this song does not exist.
It's never too late for either of those things. Stop waiting for the world to give you permission to love!
Never too late, brother. You will find someone :)
Tenés tiempo.Hay alguien destinada para ti.Que nadie te haga creer lo contrario.
I agree; it’s never too late.
I listened to this song at 23 and I was a super ultimate who doesn't want to be boring. I want to be exciting. This song is enticing and very romantic. I love this to be my wedding song.
Must I cry like a baby EVERYTIME?
you're not crying like a baby. you're crying like a beautiful grown up.
Yes
I know
Me too. It reminds me of my daughter's wedding day. They played this at the wedding. Beautiful.
I just want to listen to a beautiful song, not cry!!
Amazing to me how this song sonically captures the word "memory."
I have always loved this one. It is both sad and celebratory and reflective all at the same time. It hear and and see images from my past; some perfect, some happy, some sad and all precious.
PERFECTLY SAID!
Thank you Gabriel😇🎼🎶🎸✌️🌹🕊🕊
Heard this today for the first time on an Austrian radio station Oe3, what a powerful and emotional song👍
I re watched Scrubs again and I was crying watching JD watching his future with his friends.
His voice can melt hearts..
Such a magical voice. Peter Gabriel is so unique when it comes to his songs. Red Rain is fantastic and his song Biko always reduces me to tears, just like this. There is also a different version, 2cellos and Zucchero where he sings in Italian. Definitely suits Zucchero's voice and worth listening to. Peter's voice is raw here, where Zucchero's is seductive and sublime.
Beautiful song. The strings in this arrangement are so important. That's who we are as humans. Strong but breakable. We are vulnerable and strong at the same time. Peter Gabriel's version captures this idea.
Pantera...Beautifully said! 4/2020.
Did they say,who,who wrote the book of love
Peter's voice is always magical....luv it
Vibra il cuore, vibra l'anima,ricordo di momenti persi in abbracci mai dimenticati
This song is melancholic for me. I discovered it in the aftermath of a horrible break up, that left me emotionally scarred and unable to find love again to this day. It was also around the time i discovered mushrooms, so there's a strange sadness and beauty associated with this song in my psyche, and for some reason i keep coming back.
Sorry for asking but did the pain of your break up ease? I am just the imprint of the person I was. I cannot derive real joy or pleasure from anything yet. I'm trying to stay busy but nothing really helps.
I am not the crying kind. I have never cried while listening to a song. But listening to this song completely breaks me down, and I start to sob like a child.
I suspect the reason I start to cry while listening to this song is because of the lines that speak of hope for love from someone.
I am well past 60 and steadily heading towards old age, having never had the privilege of having someone fall in love with me.
Love truly is for lucky people. Some of us are just not that lucky.
Me too my friend. Me too
Thanks God 4 Peter Gabriel, He always seems to save the day... :)
That voice is a gift from God to us all!
🧡🧡🧡🧡
Love this song. As a massive scrubs fan it means so much and I passed on that love of scrubs onto my younger brother and as his best man he said don’t cry when his bride walks down aisle. I said I don’t cry! That was until she came down aisle to this. He got me good
🥰🥰🥰
There’s music that I have to hear on grey raining days, Floyd, Tull, Zeppelin, but Peter Gabriel owns those rainy days and grey days of fall and winter… I thank the music gods for him..
Just a beautiful song for absolutely no reason at all!
Cannot help but be emotional when I hear this song.
So beautiful... Tears in my eyes 🖤
This song is lovely. Someone actually feels this way, lovely.
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts, and figures
And instructions for dancing
But I
I love it when you read to me.
And you
You can read me anything.
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it's just transcendental
Some of it's just really dumb
But I
I love it when you sing to me
And you
You can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
But I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
And I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
You ought to give me
Wedding rings
Heart ❤️ felt .... I could listen to it all day and night...ty for all ur beautiful comments... I'm a romantic at heart ❤️...never found anyone else who does 🥀
❤
@@alicelockhart4716I am a romantic at heart too. ❤
This is The greatest love song ever written and iz is even better When Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon dances to iz in The beautiful mobile "Shall we dance". Greetings from Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷❤️
I heard this song many years ago and enjoyed it, but coming back to listen again now that I have experienced it myself is completely different.
Love it! The magic touch of music keep people closer, no matter distance, places, taste...it gives comfort to our heart!
This makes me always think of Scrubs..damm I miss that show
I got the feels. For Tweek x Craig. Beautiful feels.
During this trying time of the Covid-19 QUARANTINE we all need to be strong like,
TWEEK AND CRAIG! lol.
Stfu kid
Clever comment
South park represent!
Literally here because south park used it
You rock!
Rediscovering a song you had forgotten but once listened to a lot
One of my forever favorite songs ! Thank you for this beautiful song!
Tweek and Craig 💙
OOOOOHHHHH I so loved this song long time ago... just remembered now thanks to this post and it fills much deeper hole in my heart
First time I have heard this song. watching the movie. I am a completely broken down mess. How more beautiful could this get?
Bravo
I know that everything is possible... with this song playing in my heart...
Peter Gabriel found his favorite song, I think he's done.
Two of my favorite shows. Scrubs and South Park.
Been too long without listening to this grand artist.Grand Master of music and lyRics.The worLD artistically owes a great debt to Peter GaBrieL and all the great musicians he's ever worKeD with.Amen.
Still seeing JD and thinking about Scrubs when listening to this song
M'Lion BookTiger burst into tears with that episode.
My first wedding song we danced to. 2006. No longer married, but I adore this song still.
I had never heard this song before. It is mesmerizing and beautiful.
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I just heard the original by Magnetic Fields in the Ordinary Love trailer and felt it was sweet and loving and thoughtful - I cried, and knew I needed to figure out who sang it. Lo and behold, I found this. Wow. The strings arrangement and the vocal harmony took it to a whole new level. Just beautiful.
Danced to this at my wedding in 2012. He can still read me anything.
Beautiful, nothing more.
One of the best lyrics I ever heared and even with his voice which is really not the best in the whole world, it gives the whole piece even more character and strength. This is so simple...but breathtaking in the same moment, and that makes it iconic and legendary. And it still has the touch of laughter and deep emotion that results out of JD‘s finale in scrubs.
listen to the version by Mark Vincent with 2 Cellos
Peter, this is the perfect song for you. 💞 🎻 🎶
Such a beautiful song I'll be sure to play it on my wedding day ❤❤❤
This always fills my heart with deep emotion 💕
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The perfect Scrubs finale.
most Beautiful south park episode
What a masterpiece! Peter always touches my heart in unimaginable ways. Thank you, Peter. What a gift is your music