"Down to Earth" is a song sung, written, and produced by Peter Gabriel and featuring the Soweto Gospel Choir. The music was composed by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman. The song is featured in the end credits of the 2008 Disney/Pixar feature film WALL-E.
The song was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 66th Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 81st Academy Awards but lost to Bruce Springsteen's "The Wrestler" from The Wrestler and A.R. Rahman's "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, respectively. However, "Down to Earth" won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media in 2009.
Lyrics[]
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
[Chorus]
We're comin' down to the ground
There's no better place to go
We got snow up on the mountains
We got rivers down below
We're comin' down to the ground
We hear the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after
We'll 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
[Chorus]
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
Oh, when we messed up our homeland
And set sail for the sky
[Chorus]
We're comin' down
Comin' down to Earth
Like babies at birth
Comin' down to Earth
Redefine new priorities
These are extraordinary qualities
[Chorus x2]
Redefine new priorities
These are extraordinary qualities
That you find on Earth
Coming down [x8]
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Trivia[]
- An adult sea turtle resembling Crush can be seen as a mosaic during the line "All these rules don't apply when you're high in the sky, so come on down", along with a group of small sea turtles.
- At six minutes, this is one of the longest songs produced for a Pixar film.
