Sunday, January 18, 2026

"Love Conquers All"

I listened to New World again yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Love Conquers All."  Throughout the choruses, there's a recurring three-note guitar phrase (E D A) that emphasizes or represents some of the lyrics.  The span of these pitches (a fifth) provides a slight sense of the entirety of the "all" in the title line, and the descent that the pitches outline matches the "fall" and "breaking down" in lines "Each time you fall" and "Breaking down the walls."