All You Need.

Listening to the Beatles classic "All You Need Is Love" again, since its Vday, I'm struck not by the dropping, easy/lazy vocals, or the slightly circus organ rythym (especially as it breaks into the outro, recalling the lyrics to their earlier hit with its "Love you...yeah yeah yeah") of the trumpets; no, what I'm most in tune with is the violins. After the first chorus, there is a moment where the wittle down the essence of the melody to a bare draw, a perfect squiggle in time. And a minute later the tempo opens up and we get the circus act.

Is that like love? The Take it Easy slow build, the moment of truth, and then the fun drops from the sky and the party begins and carries you into forever.