It's worth looking at these lyrics and comparing them with those of the Springsteen one.
Springsteen wrote it but couldn't get it to work in it's original form. He gave it to Patti and her band who rocked it up, the arrangement they'd both subsequently use.
She changed some of they lyrics too, and the differences between the two versions are quite marked.
Springsteen's is typical Springsteen territory - the workingman at the end of his day seeking solace in the arms of his girl.
Patti's is more abstract, imagery, and the marriage of power with a deep core of vulnerability - you and me against the world, but the loneliness and doubt of the day time - imploring her lover to forgive the strength of her passion, and for physical embrace to allay the doubts.
They're both excellent, but very different perspectives wrung from the same song.
It's a great picture of the insularity of erotic love - outside there's hurts and doubts, and though the woman is taking the sexual initiative she longs to be submissively "in your hand/under your command", which would soothe away the hurt and make her man feel strong again.
It's a great picture of the insularity of erotic love - outside there's hurts and doubts, and though the woman is taking the sexual initiative she longs to be submissively "in your hand/under your command", which would soothe away the hurt and make her man feel strong again.
"Love is an angel disguised as lust" is a great inversion, yes it's fairly basic and freely admitted lust on the surface but also the medium through which love shines, exactly the opposite to most pop sentiment which is men crooning about love as a means of access into someone's knickers.
It's worth looking at these lyrics and comparing them with those of the Springsteen one. Springsteen wrote it but couldn't get it to work in it's original form. He gave it to Patti and her band who rocked it up, the arrangement they'd both subsequently use. She changed some of they lyrics too, and the differences between the two versions are quite marked. Springsteen's is typical Springsteen territory - the workingman at the end of his day seeking solace in the arms of his girl. Patti's is more abstract, imagery, and the marriage of power with a deep core of vulnerability - you and me against the world, but the loneliness and doubt of the day time - imploring her lover to forgive the strength of her passion, and for physical embrace to allay the doubts. They're both excellent, but very different perspectives wrung from the same song.
It's a great picture of the insularity of erotic love - outside there's hurts and doubts, and though the woman is taking the sexual initiative she longs to be submissively "in your hand/under your command", which would soothe away the hurt and make her man feel strong again.
It's a great picture of the insularity of erotic love - outside there's hurts and doubts, and though the woman is taking the sexual initiative she longs to be submissively "in your hand/under your command", which would soothe away the hurt and make her man feel strong again.
"Love is an angel disguised as lust" is a great inversion, yes it's fairly basic and freely admitted lust on the surface but also the medium through which love shines, exactly the opposite to most pop sentiment which is men crooning about love as a means of access into someone's knickers.