Peter Gabriel's 1992 song "Come Talk to Me," from his album Us, is widely remembered as a duet with Sinéad O'Connor, but its true subject is far more personal than listeners typically assume. Rather than a love song about estranged romantic partners, Gabriel wrote it as a plea to reconnect with his own daughter, making it one of the most emotionally raw tracks in his catalogue and a fitting opener to an album he described as his most vulnerable.

The track blends distorted guitars, African drums, synthesisers and bagpipes, a dense mix Gabriel said grew out of a Senegalese groove he had recorded years earlier. He explained he wanted to introduce "quite a lot of textures" to make it "more of a journey than some of the other tracks," and singled out the bagpipes for their "gutsy and primal" sound. The piece revisits the song 34 years after Us was released, framing it within Gabriel's broader career, from his early days in Genesis to his upcoming album due at the end of 2026.