Gabriel wrote this 7-minute track about the difficulty he had communicating with his daughter. The song is an invitation, asking her to "unlock this misery" and come talk to him.
The Us album alludes to the turmoil in Gabriel's private life at the time, and this song specifically addresses his younger daughter Melanie, with whom relations had become strained after he moved out of the family home into a nearby cottage with Rosanna Arquette. Mojo magazine asked Gabriel if the album helped communicate and heal or did it add fuel to the fire? "I don't know," he replied. "My ex-wife is now a very good therapist, and we joke sometimes that I gave her the fuel and incentive! I'm not conscious that the record was specific therapy that allows you to externalize what's going on inside and I always find that helpful."
The opening track on the Us album, "Come Talk To Me" opens with the sound of bagpipes, which were played by a piper from England named Chris Ormston. Gabriel used bagpipe sounds on his 1980 track "Biko," but he made those with a synthesizer.
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