11-26-2024, 01:23 AM
All You Need
Such a simple song
a pleasing sentiment–
“All you need is love!”
But like the finest cocktail
sweet mixed drink for the soul
its bitters linger:
Mid-deep romantic sentiment;
major assurance chorus;
instrumental laughing at the chorus.
More sentiment;
more chorus;
more derisive laughter.
Reinforce chorus;
orchestral elaboration;
final, faint self-reference
to an older hit
ending in a minor key.
Ambivalence: it’s oh, so serious
grandiose (as the Marseillaise)!
And laughs so hard at love
perhaps it means to laugh with lovers
but at the very end admits
that like all songs
each love must end in one or more
of ennui
alienation
or death.
Such a simple song
a pleasing sentiment–
“All you need is love!”
But like the finest cocktail
sweet mixed drink for the soul
its bitters linger:
Mid-deep romantic sentiment;
major assurance chorus;
instrumental laughing at the chorus.
More sentiment;
more chorus;
more derisive laughter.
Reinforce chorus;
orchestral elaboration;
final, faint self-reference
to an older hit
ending in a minor key.
Ambivalence: it’s oh, so serious
grandiose (as the Marseillaise)!
And laughs so hard at love
perhaps it means to laugh with lovers
but at the very end admits
that like all songs
each love must end in one or more
of ennui
alienation
or death.
Non-practicing atheist