![]() ![]() O'Connor sings Kate Bush's parts in the song. The single is included on Nelson's Across the Borderline album, produced by Don Was, Paul Simon, and Roy Halee. The song was covered as a duet between American musician Willie Nelson & Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor in 1993. " Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home" Single by Willie Nelson and Sinéad O'Connor ![]() Other versions Willie Nelson and Sinéad O'Connor version "Don't Give Up" However, Parton turned it down, so his friend Kate Bush took her place. Gabriel originally wrote the song from a reference point of American roots music and he approached country singer Dolly Parton to sing it with him. The verses, sung by Gabriel, describe the man's feelings of isolation, loneliness and despair the choruses, sung by Bush, offer words of hope and encouragement. He composed lyrics about a man whose unemployment causes stress in his domestic relationship. He felt that a song based on this was wholly appropriate to difficult economic conditions in England under Margaret Thatcher. Gabriel saw Lange's images in a 1973 book titled In This Proud Land. The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in Dust Bowl conditions. Gabriel drew inspiration from Dorothea Lange's images such as this, her most famous: "Migrant Mother" (1936) ![]()
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