Thursday, April 26, 2018

"Never My Love"

I listened to Into the Afterlife on Sunday and noticed some things about which I'll have posts for the next couple days.  First is the bridge in "Never My Love."  In the first iteration, it's:
What makes you think love will end
When you know that my whole life depends
On you
(I should note that I'm not sure if I have the line breaks in the right places.  I went more by where the breaths are taken in the Association's version, but "Neil MacArthur" doesn't pause between the first two lines.)

Structurally, that second line completes the first ("depends" rhymes with "end"), but the meaning is left incomplete.  The "On you" is necessary for the those two lines to make sense, and, likewise, the sentiment here is that the speaker/singer's life hinges "On you."  The structure illustrates the meaning.