Labyrinth
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- this is me trying / Labyrinth (Eras Tour, Gelsenkirchen)
- State of Grace / Labyrinth (Eras Tour, Toronto)
Details
- Stated inspiration
- From the Midnights prologue: "You've gotten lost in the labyrinth of your head, where the fear wraps its claws around the fragile throat of true love."
“I thought the plane was going down, how'd you turn it right around”
A catalogue observation marking the Redemption theme in this song. The full reading will follow when Labyrinth is the discussion's seed song.
“You would break your back to make me break a smile”
The lover's labour is measured by the effort it takes to win one genuine smile.
cyclical dread voiced in vocables
“Uh-oh, I'm fallin' in love Oh no, I'm fallin' in love again”
A community reading links the song's wordless uh-ohs, at the opening and the ends of choruses, to Labyrinth's "Uh-oh, I'm fallin' in love / Oh no, I'm fallin' in love again": the same dread vocable at opposite ends of the cycle. One song braces as it all starts again, the other as it ends again, and in neither does the speaker expect it to go the way she hoped.