Volume 1 of Prometheus & Pandora holds one beautiful, gentle song: "She'll Tell Me"

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The lyrics ride on a bed of soft percussion, cymbal splashes and acoustic rhythm guitar, washed by organ chords and synth-key horns. Sananda sings his melody, treating his subject--she--with care, accompanied by electric guitar the poetic verse:

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"Paradise was made for more than sleeping, or our fate awakens on a pair of dice,

but the cause of love is great and will not be denied because we're late."

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I love this tune--what a gift he has shared with us. It's all about the giving, the origin of love. Dig.

Germanegro said:

Volume 1 of Prometheus & Pandora holds one beautiful, gentle song: "She'll Tell Me"

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The lyrics ride on a bed of soft percussion, cymbal splashes and acoustic rhythm guitar, washed by organ chords and synth-key horns. Sananda sings his melody, treating his subject--she--with care, accompanied by electric guitar the poetic verse:

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"Paradise was made for more than sleeping, or our fate awakens on a pair of dice,

but the cause of love is great and will not be denied because we're late."

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I love this tune--what a gift he has shared with us. It's all about the giving, the origin of love. Dig.

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Where can this be heard?

^^^Go to iTunes, Amazon, or sanandamaitreya.com for the download, and Spotify, I think, to stream. Man, I put that song on repeat, and the instrumental version on P&P vol. 2 sounds just as sentimental.

nothing he does will ever top let her down easy.

Or "Holding on to you" that is the song Prince wishes he had written.

Adorecream said:

Or "Holding on to you" that is the song Prince wishes he had written.

Damn... that song is Amazing, such a beauty, so powerfull.... goosebumps everytime I hear it!

PeteSilas said:

nothing he does will ever top let her down easy.

I like "Seasons" more. Those two songs at the end of Symphony Or Damn are a devastating combo, in any case.

Linda1974 said:

Adorecream said:

Or "Holding on to you" that is the song Prince wishes he had written.

Damn... that song is Amazing, such a beauty, so powerfull.... goosebumps everytime I hear it!

Oh yes yes yes!!!! It gives me goosebumps too every time I hear it. It is in fact my favourite song ever by any artist. Let Her Down Easy is a beautiful song but not even in my Top 10 of TTD songs. Same goes for Seasons.

Nothing beats his old songs as TTD.

As for this new one that's being discussed....

novabrkr said:

PeteSilas said:

nothing he does will ever top let her down easy.

I like "Seasons" more. Those two songs at the end of Symphony Or Damn are a devastating combo, in any case.

ok, and i guess Let her down easy isn't really a love song per se, but it is a ballad and it's a great one, lionel richie would have loved to have written it.

Who remembers "Elevators and Hearts", the addictive gospel-flavored love song on the flip side of ''Wishing Well''?

NorthC said:

The one I never understood is the one that goes "It'll never work because you're a lesbian and I'm a Les Paul Man."

Well--that's not so much a love song as an expression of incopatabilities between 2.

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I like to regard the scenario differently: instead of a literal pairing of him (the Les Paul man) and a woman, the "lez" (Les--pun!) rather being a metaphor for "commerce," to illustrate some irreconcilable difference existing between crafting one's art and selling said art.

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To wit, his equivocation of the homo-gal and hetero-guy to "Lesbian" (the face of commercialism) and "Les Paul Man" (artsy guitarist) could represent his pairing of those 2 contrasting ideas. The lesbian should learn to play a few chords and be made a star; that she should be on a magazine cover that "all the ladies love." Play to be loved & recognized. Play to be paid!

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Sananda repeats over again the refrain that "Love is love!" Such is his enduring desire to bind the 2 (objectives). He loves them both, his art and his commerce, the Les Paul and his lez, such that "[he] never make[s] a fuss about the facts that stand in the way of uuuuss!"

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Or maybe that's too much twisty thinking!

You've got to admit that he is living in that kind of space, though, as all artists do.

Whoah--that big time-change in the middle of the song is daffy! He was really going for a shake-up, wake-up for his listeners, there!

Identity said:

Who remembers "Elevators and Hearts", the addictive gospel-flavored love song on the flip side of ''Wishing Well''?

I like "Ooh Carolina"

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and "Pretty Baby"

i do, those were the days when he was taking on Prince's habit of having off album b-sides which were as good or better than half the album.

Identity said:

Who remembers "Elevators and Hearts", the addictive gospel-flavored love song on the flip side of ''Wishing Well''?

Sananda gettin' the hell out of L.A. with his baby!

"Holding On To You" and "Let Her Down Easy" are absolutely in my TTD Top10, but there are some more "obscure" gems that I think are highly underrated.

For example, "What Shall I Do?" is a wonderful track, nice and sweet, maybe unknown to many because of the fact it was included only on "WildCard (The Joker's Edition)" and not in the first WildCard release (it was originally a B-Side for "O Divina").

And even if it is a collaboration, "Letting Go" from "The Fan" OST is a lost masterpiece.

Perfumed Pavillion

Epilog

^^^ "Epilog" sounds more like a self-affirmation song. Self-love, I guess! But I'm talking more about a wooing-type of song or description, like "The Kind of Girl"

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Wow! I just discovered this tune, defo one for the list. Something about it reminds me vaguely of Motown.

i shared this thread to sananda's facebook, he hearted it, or at least, i think he did, he's always done a lot of his own page work.

PeteSilas said:

i do, those were the days when he was taking on Prince's habit of having off album b-sides which were as good or better than half the album.

Identity said:

Who remembers "Elevators and Hearts", the addictive gospel-flavored love song on the flip side of ''Wishing Well''?

Yeah he had some awesome b-sides - nice to see some of these posted here that I hadn't listened to in a long time

thetimefan said:

Sweetness What Shall I Do Marry Me These spring to mind as newer love songs from Sananda. Holding onto You is a great track one of his best for sure.

I love Sweetness and What Shall I do. And Sweetness features Wendy Melvoin on bass

PeteSilas said:

i shared this thread to sananda's facebook, he hearted it, or at least, i think he did, he's always done a lot of his own page work.

Yeah, back in the day he used to write cool comments (or whatever they were called) on people's myspace pages.

no one remember to know someone deeply is to know someone softly.

http://www.sanandamaitrey...undeniably

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Undeniably

Seems like the last guy you were with
Was only interested in trying to bring you down
Tear you down and keep you down
But sweetness all I want to do is adore you
And to help you restore you to your rightful glory
The poet of your indecision speaks
Undeniably I love you
Undeniably I love you
Baptized by the fire in your eyes I was mesmerized
A perfect night in Paradise
I spent with you and paid the price
I know that angels must to their clouds return
But I'm left to burn
And blow a kiss to what might have been
And blow a kiss to what might have been
Undeniably I love you
Undeniably I love you yes I do
Inside of you I promised you a sweet refrain
That only the sweetest grapes would pass your lips
And then remain in cool sustain
To let my words caress your ear and
Say the things you long to hear
But instead
I blow a kiss to what might have been
I blow a kiss to what might have been
Undeniably I love you girl yes yes you know I do
Undeniably

PeteSilas said: