Hi friends
I've noticed that some people think that if you write a love song which mainly contains emotions, they're often asking questions like what happened or why the singer feel this way. Alistair mentioned in one of his reviews that you don't have to know too much of the literal background to those feelings and just accept/relate to them without this background. This is something I also strongly believe in. In some cases where the singer want to make each member of the audience feel like the singer is singing to each individual person alone, there can't be any story behind the emotions. If it is a story behind the emotions, the listener won't feel like the singer is singing to him or her alone if what's happening in the story has not happened to the listener, which often would be most of the audience. However the emotions the singer expresses are emotions each individual in the audience can relate to, and will therefore make them think about their own individual circumstances which causes these strong uiversal emotions. Anyway, does this makes sense? I think Ray Charles knew that when he sang his heart rendering version of the Don Gibson's standard 'I Can't Stop Loving You' which is one of many standards which expresses only emotions without a story. See below:
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
I can't stop loving you
I've made up my mind
To live in memory
Of the lonesome times
I can't stop wanting you
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life
In dreams of yesterday
Those happy hours
That we once knew
Tho' long ago
Still make me blue
They say that time
Heals a broken heart
But time has stood still
Since we've been apart
Be interesting to know what other thinks about the subject.
Jan