A funny thing happened while I was remixing songs from the 80's...
Although I've always liked this song, the tape was in bad condition and I wasn't sure I could pull out a mix from it, but the guitar and keyboard solos were worth it to invest some time and effort to extract those tracks and performances. While I was archiving notes and music scores I found the lyric sheet and thought about what I had written. For a simple dance pop song there was a lot of intent behind those lyrics that I must have been channeling from my personal life at the time. There hadn't been that much thought behind it- unlike another song I had really struggled with at the time. So I started to decode some darker meaning from this upbeat recording which is something I've never done before and I'm not even sure what exactly I've accomplished here. Since this is the first post in a series of podcasts it's best to get an experiment like this out of the way early. Also to help follow along, I've posted the song lyrics here.
NEVER HOLD YOU BACK
Copyright© 1989
ELECTROTAINMENT
All rights reserved.
Never hold you back
Forever
Never do you that way
Never take the time
To hurt you
With the things I say
We have what it takes
If that's what love is for
We possess the key
Don't break
Don't break down the door
We are caught in time
In the time that it takes to be in love
Read between the lines
And deny what you did for me tonight
What you did for me all night
[First Guitar Solo]
You never told the truth
To cut me
This cuts like a knife
And you never made no moves
To hold me
To keep me in your life
I knew all along
That our love was unspoken
Now it didn't take too long
For that spell
To be broken
We are caught in time
In the time that it takes to be in love
Walk between the lines
And deny what you will for me, in spite
What you willfully deny
[Second Guitar Solo]
[Break]
[Keyboard Solo]
[Third Guitar Solo]
And I'll never hold you back
And I'll never take the time to
Never hold you back
And I'll never wonder why you
Never hold me back
And I'll never take the time to
Never hold me back
And I'll Never
Never
Never
Never
[Forth Guitar Solo]
Never take the time to
Hold me back from you
