The Teardrop Explodes
A brisk, bright pop-psych song about romantic fixation, where longing tips into something more obsessive and unstable. The lyric…
obsessive longing distance and return emotional instability
Chaka Khan
A meditation on jealousy and reassurance, sung by a partner who has just been told about some flirtation or attention from an…
jealousy possessiveness self-assurance
Led Zeppelin
An eight-minute ballad that starts as a gentle folk critique of spiritual materialism and gradually swells into a mystical,…
spiritual materialism doubt and ambiguity nature as mystic guide