RMFSR-001: Never Hold You Back (Part 01)

  A funny thing happened while I was remixing songs from the 80's... Although I've always liked this song, the tape was in bad condition and I wasn't sure I could pull out a mix from it, but the guitar and keyboard solos were worth it to invest some time and effort to extract those tracks and performances. While I was archiving notes and music scores I found the lyric sheet and thought about what I had written. For a simple dance pop song there was a lot of intent behind those lyrics that I must have been channeling from my personal life at the time. There hadn't been that much thought behind it- unlike another song I had really struggled with at the time. So I started to decode some darker meaning from this upbeat recording which is something I've never done before and I'm not even sure what exactly I've accomplished here. Since this is the first post in a series of podcasts it's best to get an experiment like this out of the way early. Also to help follow along, I've posted the song lyrics here. NEVER HOLD YOU BACK Copyright© 1989 ELECTROTAINMENT All rights reserved. Never hold you back Forever Never do you that way Never take the time To hurt you With the things I say We have what it takes If that's what love is for We possess the key Don't break Don't break down the door We are caught in time In the time that it takes to be in love Read between the lines And deny what you did for me tonight What you did for me all night [First Guitar Solo] You never told the truth To cut me This cuts like a knife And you never made no moves To hold me To keep me in your life I knew all along That our love was unspoken Now it didn't take too long For that spell To be broken We are caught in time In the time that it takes to be in love Walk between the lines And deny what you will for me, in spite What you willfully deny [Second Guitar Solo] [Break] [Keyboard Solo] [Third Guitar Solo] And I'll never hold you back And I'll never take the time to Never hold you back And I'll never wonder why you Never hold me back And I'll never take the time to Never hold me back And I'll Never Never Never Never [Forth Guitar Solo] Never take the time to Hold me back from you