Results for “the contradictions of intimacy”

Songs

Sly & Robbie

This is a cover/reinterpretation of Sly Stone's meditation on family bonds, performed here by the Jamaican rhythm duo Sly and…

family loyalty versus individual difference the contradictions of intimacy emotional paralysis

Sufjan Stevens

A quiet domestic love song that strips Christmas of all its commercial and social trappings and relocates the holiday's meaning…

intimacy vs. commercialism presence over spectacle domestic love as sanctuary

Jason Isbell

Isbell uses a fading hotel as an extended metaphor for a long marriage at risk of going stale, watching an older couple's silent…

marital complacency the labor of sustaining love aging and decline

Prince

A slow, gospel-shaped ballad in which a speaker apologizes for hurting someone, then gradually widens the address from a single…

apology and regret failed intimacy that could not become friendship spiritual deliverance

Leonard Cohen

A three-part meditation in waltz time that moves from a woman by a river, to Christ walking on water, and back to the woman…

erotic love as spiritual apprehension faith and doubt surrender to a guide

Roberta Flack

A slow, hymn-like ballad that traces one relationship's progress through three ascending intimacies: first sight, first kiss,…

awakening love cosmic/natural imagery as emotional scale vulnerability and surrender

Kate Bush

A song about two lovers who keep wounding each other without meaning to, and the narrator's fantasy of a supernatural fix: a…

empathy as an impossible exchange the violence hidden inside love gendered misunderstanding