File:Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

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The official Sledgehammer video. Directed by Stephen R. Johnson, produced by Adam Whittaker. Claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation provided by Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay.

Sledgehammer was the first single from the multi-platinum selling album So, the first of Peter’s studio albums to have a proper title and a watershed release in his career. Its marriage of the artistic and the commercial made for an indisputable success, with the album quickly sitting atop the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

You could have a steam train If you'd just lay down your tracks You could have an aeroplane flying If you bring your blue sky back All you do is call me I'll be anything you need

You could have a big dipper Going up and down, all around the bends You could have a bumper car, bumping This amusement never ends

I want to be - your sledgehammer Why don't you call my name Oh let me be your sledgehammer This will be my testimony

Show me round your fruitcage 'Cos I will be your honey bee Open up your fruitcage Where the fruit is as sweet as can be

I want to be - your sledgehammer Why don't you call my name You'd better call the sledgehammer Put your mind at rest I'm going to be - the sledgehammer This can be my testimony I'm your sledgehammer Let there be no doubt about it

Sledge Sledge Sledgehammer

I've kicked the habit, shed my skin This is the new stuff, I go dancing in, we go dancing in

Oh won't you show for me and I will show for you Show for me, I will show for you Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you, only you You've been coming through Going to build that power Build, build up that power, hey I've been feeding the rhythm I've been feeding the rhythm Going to feel that power build in you

Come on, come on, help me do Come on, come on, help me do Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, you I've been feeding the rhythm I've been feeding the rhythm It's what we're doing, doing All day and night


 * 1) MusicVideo

So Red Rain Sledgehammer Don't Give Up That Voice Again In Your Eyes Mercy Street Big Time We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)