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Fascinatin' Rhythm: Conditional Love, 05/11/19

Past Perfect - Vintage Music

Episode #1919

5/11      Conditional Love In something as brief but focused as a song lyric, a word as small as “if” can turn out to be very large. Despite all the assumptions about perfect romance, some of the best songs prefer a point of view that’s more ambiguous, more tentative. A word like “if” steps back from certainty and engages the complexity that any true love requires.