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A Question of Love

And the question is:   Is it possible to truly be in love with more than one
woman at the same time?   Here's how the song asks it:

How can you ask me questions?
Do I remember I love you?
Questions, I have seen, only come between us
I never fight your meaning
Why do you ask for promises?
Words can disappear - only love is here

'Cause I could give myself in love and still love you
Yes I could give my self a thousand times or more and still be true to you

And when my body's burning, I seem to slip away from you
Illusions of the earth - love is always worth it
And if I stopped my wandering, it wouldn't answer what you ask me
Or tell you how I feel - only love is real

'Cause I could give myself in love and still love you
Yes I could give my self a thousand times or more and still be true to you

Peter Cross is the songwriter, the arranger, and the producer.

Commentary:

Oh my, this song was written and recorded much too long ago. It was originally written as an ode to the fabulous 60's, when sex was not only great, but it was also safe. And if you happened to be so lucky as to be in the rock and roll biz at that time, it was HAPPENING! Mona and I had what was then called an "open relationship", and it worked beautifully for both of us for a long long time. My real life experience with her is what A Question of Love is all about. I always believed that this song is unusual because of that, and also for some musical reasons. It would have sounded good if I had sung it, but I felt that it would have even more emotional impact if a woman sang it. Fate brought me into a bar where an unknown folk-rock band was playing, and there were two females in the band, one of whom had a good voice. I offered her a chance to record and since she had not yet recorded anything, she agreed to help me for free. It was a one time experience, and I never saw any of them again.

In terms of songwriting, this song is very interesting, not just because of the unusual and poetic lyric concept, but also because of the unusual chord progression. The chorus utilizes a difficult resolution, changing from a minor chord to the same major chord, and there's a very cool key change into each chorus and out of each chorus. Finally, the song ends on a "dominant second", something that is supposed to be impossible according to the so-called musicologists. But music theory is just hot air. In reality, true musical inspiration defies all theories and cannot be defined. That is because creativity itself is not predictable by its very nature. I believe that creativity is God in action, and that all creativity comes directly from God through each individual soul. Everybody has it. Some people have just not discovered it yet. Many "normal" people envy creative people and wish they had more creativity themselves. I'm here to tell you it ain't all that its cracked up to be, and there may be a "Catch-22". No one ever tells you about that catch. It's called "suffering for your art".


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