Steven Biko, a young anti-apartheid activist, was killed by the South African police in 1977. In evoking Biko’s memory, Peter Gabriel made use of South African musical sounds and sung one line in Xhosa. The song mourns the death, but it also addresses the killers (and the regime they served): ‘You can blow out a candle / But you can't blow out a fire / Once the flames begin to catch / The wind will blow it higher.’