Sunday, July 30, 2023

"Hold on Girl"

When I listened to the deluxe edition of More of the Monkees recently, I also noticed a couple features in "Hold on Girl."

In the line "He took your love and then just walked away" in the first verse, the phrase "walked away" is sung to a group of conjunct notes (A B C#).  To some degree, this gives the impression of footsteps.

There's a grammatical ambiguity in the lines "I promise you the sun is gonna shine again / And help is on its way" at the end of the second verse.  The clause "help is on its way" could be part of what is "promise[d]," or it could be its own statement (as it is in the lines "I know that you have got a reason to be sad / But help is on its way" at the end of the first verse).