I've loved this song for decades -- a handy selection in my private "shower and bath concerts" -- as are most of their other pieces. I'm so glad they -- one of my favorite groups -- passed through our awareness during times of great national troubles. One of life's little gifts to help soften the blows.
Deep Lyrics....Great melody...I LURVE the multi-leads on this one...and just the overall arrangment of it...again it comes from that fantastic Soul & Inspiration album...an very UNDERRATED lp IMO....It's my FAVORITE.
It also depends on what you mean by Hardcore. If you mean SOUL...well soul is written all over t heir songs...soul is a state of mind not just a genre of music. Many of their more "soulful" tunes weren't marketed much. And some of their songs, if arranged just a tad differently could have been R&B/Soul tunes. But just listen to Too Poor to Die,/Feelin Alright?/This is Your Life/My Song/ The whole Portrait lp is basically R&B. This group could blow no matter what they sang.
Do you think Marilyn ever comes on here and looks what people are saying? I bet she does. Anyway I bought their Aquarius album when it came out and wore it to where it skipped some on let the sunshine in. I would dig it out and play it again but I think my record player has frozen and they really don't see new good ones.
I may be wrong--but when I heard this song as a kiddo, I thought the lyrics said "If my words don't make a story (not history), just call it hardcore poetry." One way or the other--thanks for posting this
Lovely melody, singing, and performance wasted on poetry you'd think an 11 year-old had written. You have to hate the English language to do anything except laugh at this execrable verse.
That whole album is hard to understand!!! I can understand maybe one verse and then the next is a complete mystery. For instance, in the title song, do they sing "There is a garden something like the shadow of a:" a. Butterfly? b. burning fire?
