Blackbird

Capitol, under Universal. Take these broken wings. He means a person who was told to wait.

Apple and Capitol released it. Universal holds Capitol. McCartney has said he was thinking of black girls in the American South, told the hour had not come. The song says the hour is the one you are in.

Sing it to a person who is waiting for permission.

The eight

Industry
8/10
One guitar. Nowhere to hide a lazy line.
Household
5/10
A person learning to rise. Not yet a house.
Piety
6/10
The night is dead. He still says sun.
Courage
8/10
The courage is given to someone else, which is the better kind.
Republic
7/10
Written toward people who had been told to stay in their place.
Temperance
8/10
Quiet. No crowd required.
Truth
7/10
The brokenness is not denied.
Stewardship
8/10
A song to sing to someone who is about to try.

Live historicallyPlay it once for someone who is stuck, then ask what the next small flight is. Help them do it.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 2013

Columbia · Sony Music Entertainment

All of Me

Columbia, under Sony. He is not renting the evening. He is giving the person.

Columbia released it, with GOOD Music. Sony owns Columbia. Weddings took it because the sentence is the right size: not a spark, a handing over. The risk is singing it once in a suit and never again in a kitchen.

If the house plays it, play it on an ordinary night, and ask whether the offer still stands.

The eight

Industry
7/10
A piano and a vow, left mostly alone. That takes nerve.
Household
9/10
A body, a mind, the cards. He is talking about a marriage.
Piety
6/10
Love, said as if it were answerable to something.
Courage
7/10
He bets the whole hand.
Republic
5/10
Two people. The promise is still the kind a town can witness.
Temperance
7/10
No extra. The feeling is large and it stays put.
Truth
8/10
All of me is a dangerous sentence, and he says it anyway.
Stewardship
8/10
A song a couple can mean, if they mean it on a Tuesday.

Live historicallyNot only at a wedding. Once this month, at the table, and then do one unglamorous thing the vow requires.