Hathaway Songs
“..And if my words don’t come together, listen to the melody.. ’cause my love is in there hiding.” -Donny Hathaway (A Song For You)
There are certain songs that may not exactly express your feelings with all the lyrics (what the song says), but those very same songs may exactly express your feelings/sentiment with the music (the way the song feels.–The melody, harmonization and rhythm of the instrumentation and voice(s).
I’m calling them Hathaway Songs.– Referencing a line in Legendary Soul-Singer, Donny Hathaway‘s classic recording–> “A Song For You”.
Here are a two I’m sending out to my sweetheart:
With Love,
Kareem
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