Waterfalls

LaFace, under Sony. Don't go. The song means the drugs and the pride.

LaFace released it. LaFace was Arista, and Arista is Sony. The melody is the kind people remember as pretty. The lyric is a friend telling you the thing you want will take your life, and your mother's.

Play it before someone calls a dangerous want a personality.

The eight

Industry
7/10
A soft record with a hard sentence. That takes control.
Household
6/10
Mothers are in it, waiting. The house is who gets the news.
Piety
5/10
A plea, close to a prayer, aimed at the living.
Courage
7/10
They say the unpopular no to the chase.
Republic
7/10
A street, a death, a choice. That is a public song.
Temperance
7/10
The waterfall is the appetite. They tell you not to jump.
Truth
8/10
The consequence is not hinted. It is the plot.
Stewardship
8/10
A warning a teenager can hear without being preached at, and still be told no.

Live historicallyIf a young person is chasing the waterfall in the song, play it all the way through, including the verse they skip.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1982

Columbia · Sony Music Entertainment

Always on My Mind

Columbia, under Sony. Regret, specific. He was busy. She needed the words.

Columbia released Nelson's version. Sony owns Columbia. The record is not about a scandal. It is about the days he was preoccupied, and the sentence he saved for later, and the later that came too late.

This is one of the useful sad songs. It tells you what to do while the person is still in the house.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Nelson sings it like a man who cannot fix the year.
Household
8/10
A marriage, neglected in small ordinary ways.
Piety
5/10
Little things. He knows they were the devotion.
Courage
6/10
He admits the failure without a speech about his intentions.
Republic
4/10
A private debt.
Temperance
7/10
No excuse he is willing to rest in.
Truth
9/10
He did not tell her. That is the fact.
Stewardship
8/10
A song to play before the little things are all that is left to say.

Live historicallyBefore the day ends, say the small thing you have been saving. Do not wait for a version of this song.