He comes on one of the verses of Sky's the Limit and says: "A nigga never been as broke as me".
Two weeks after our interview, Maxwell performs Nothing Compares 2 U at the BET awards; on the night, one of the verses mutates from the Prince original – "I went to the record store … Apple, Spotify, too, and they told me / 'Boy you'd better try to make some music, which you can't do / 'cause Prince is the truth!'" Prince was a fan of Maxwell, too.
One of the verses concerns the biblical figure of Joseph, which is also the name of the groom (Gen 39 21).
One of the verses, Song of the Happy Prostitute, tells the story of a woman who resents the way her profession is frowned upon.
One of the verses of Psalm 92—"For, look, Your enemies, O LORD, / for, look, Your enemies perish, / all the wrongdoers are scattered"—virtually repeats a line from one of the polytheistic Ugaritic texts found in Syria, in 1928.
One of the verses of Psalm 92 — "For, look, Your enemies, O LORD, / for, look, Your enemies perish, / all the wrongdoers are scattered" — virtually repeats a line from one of the polytheistic Ugaritic texts found in Syria, in 1928.
It's like being plunged into one of the verse plays of TS Eliot where you are obliged to observe a lofty otherworldliness, nagging morality, awkward innovation and artificial banter.
Further emphasizing that point, one of the verse's lyrics conjures harbingers of sorrow and hunger walking ever-closer to their destination, visually accented by a sign-spinner performing with a "foreclosure" advertisement and a gas pump meter spinning wildly upwards.
Heaven, one of the tenderest verses in the Bible has it, is where God will wipe away all tears from our faces.
Each track features a different artist interpreting one of the thirty-six verses of "Chamber Music," Joyce's 1907 suite of lyrical poems that loosely chronicles a lovestruck young man as he tries to "woo" his "goldenhair".
To the glib assertion that transfusion was not a feature of iron age therapies, any other sheep will be able to cite one of the relevant verses: "Only flesh with its life, its blood, you must not eat".
