"Peace and Love (on the Planet Earth)" is a song featured in the episode "It Could've Been Great".
The song is one of Peridot's first steps to accepting her new life on Earth, as she and Steven compose a cute song together, even if she doesn't fully understand the purpose of music.
[Steven] Life and death and love and birth, And peace and war on the planet Earth. Is there anything that's worth more Than peace and love on the planet Earth Oh - Whooah, come on and sing it with me... [Peridot] Sing? [Steven] The words relate to the key... [Peridot] Key? [Steven] If it's a pattern, If it's a pattern, Then just repeat after me... Life and death and love and birth- [Peridot] Life and death and love and birth- [Steven] Now you sing mi-fa-mi-mi-fa-mi-ti-la! [Both] And peace and war on the planet Earth! [Steven] Yes, yes! That's it! [Peridot] That's so easy. [Steven] Yeah, but that's what's fun about it. You should write something, you should write a song! [Peridot] About what? [Steven] Whatever you're thinking! [Peridot] I guess we're already here, I guess we already know. We've all got something to fear, We've all got nowhere to go. I think you're all INSANE! But I guess I am too... Anybody would be If they were stuck on Earth with you. [Steven] Hahaha yes! Life and death and love and birth and- [Amethyst] Life and death and love and birth and- [Pearl] Life and death and love and birth and Peace and war on the planet Earth. [Garnet] Is there anything that's worth more? [Steven] Is there anything that's worth more? [Peridot] Is there anything that's worth more Than peace and love on the planet Earth...
Chords[]
Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 Am (x9)
[Steven] Life and death and love and birth
And peace and war on the planet Earth
Is there anything that's worth more
Than peace and love on the planet Earth
Whoa come on and sing it with me
[Peridot] Sing?
[Steven] The words relate to the key
[Peridot] Key?
[Steven] If it's a pattern
if it's a pattern,
Then just repeat after me
Life and death and love and birth
[Peridot] Life and death and love and birth
[Steven] Now you sing mi-fa-mi-mi-fa-mi-ti-la
[Both] And peace and war on the planet Earth
[Steven] Yes yes! That's it!
Peridot] That's so easy
[Steven] Yeah but that's what's fun about it
You should write something, you should write a song!
[Peridot] About what?
[Steven] Whatever you're thinking
[Peridot] I guess we're already here
I guess we already know
E7
We've all got something to fear
Am
We've all got nowhere to go
Dm7 Cmaj7 Dm G Cmaj7
I think you're all insane!
But I guess I am too
Anybody would be
If they were stuck on Earth with you!
[Steven] Hehehehe yes!
Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 Am (x6)
Life and death and love and birth and
[Amethyst] Life and death and love and birth and
[Pearl] Life and death and love and birth and
Peace and war on the planet Earth
[Garnet] Is there anything that's worth more
[Steven] Is there anything that's worth more
[Peridot] Is there anything that's worth more
Than peace and love on the planet Earth
Trivia[]
The song was released on January 5, 2016, a day before the episode with the song was first released, on the official Cartoon Network channel because every song from the show was being uploaded to their channel in celebration of Steven's Birthday Week.
The phrases "life and death" and "peace and war" contain contrasting/opposite ideas, while the phrase "love and birth" are not opposites.
Originally, the lines in the introduction spelling out the chords were to be represented by numbers instead of in solfege, with the line "Now you sing mi-fa-mi-mi-fa-mi-ti-la" was "Okay, now go three above me", and the end of the song was to be sung as a round.[1] Interestingly, the "la" in the aforementioned line is four above Steven, while the preceding notes are all three above. Peridot corrects this by singing "sol" instead which is three above.
