Quality Exudes
This is a mature and sweet album, Prince with his soft baritone soothing in the reflective lyrics of finely-crafted songs. It is a straightforward and simple as this: quality exudes. It has a clear Country intonation throughout, but the most indicative of this is the pedal-steel lament ‘Broken Heart of Mine’.
Lyrically, the songs tread familiar self-questioning on a life lived and measured by the here and now. They can do so with some poetic cleverness too, as with ‘Young’:
Cover band sign me up
Play some Metallica
Let’s count the times we drive by all the driveways we ain’t driven by before
Can’t shake what’s got me shook
Turn around take another look
Holdin’ on to someday and a better situation
Young hoping one day you’ll grow old
Older than when it began
Hard to imagine it all now that we’re free and I’m just fine
We can start over again
Nothing is out of our reach
We can be all that we dreamed when we were young
Wе were young
Shoulda had it all by now
According to my younger sеlf
What ain’t down on paper means nothin’ in the real world
When you’re young
Had a dream where I was giving blood
Hooked up to a record machine
Speaking in a fevered tongue
Staring at some desert trees
Forgetting everybody’s name
Is this all that seems
All that it seems
Ain’t no small victories when you’re young
There is a recurring harmonising vocal in many songs and this adds to the gentle delivery of the whole. It is a relaxing, reassuring musical narrative that puts a strong sense of knowing and understanding on whatever is being ruminated.
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