Welcome to The Ministry of Rock

Hi Welcome to these reflections on Rock music as a salve for the soul.

Let’s begin with a song i just heard the other day on the radio, not one
i was too familiar with (at first i thought it might be the Rascals) but looked it up and found it was by the Sixties group, The Grass Roots.

The song’s message is pretty clear: You can run, but you can’t hide.

As Donald Fagen sang, “you can’t hide from what’s inside of you.”

Put another way: Love is your true nature. If you are not “feeling the love,” so to speak,
there’s something wrong. You’re not letting love in, you’re denying it in some way.

As Dickey Betts sings (on the Allman Brothers’ “Seven Turns”), “Love is all that remains the same/that’s what it’s all coming to.”

And that’s what this is all about — I already gave you the beginning and the end right there.
It’s all about Love, people, and what are we thinking of?

Anyway, here’s the Grassroots Song:

Sooner Or Later
( The Grass Roots )

Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
Sooner or later, girl, you’ve got to give in
Sooner or later, love is gonna let ya
Sooner or later, love is gonna win

Its just a matter of time
Before you make up your mind
To give all that love that you’ve been hiding
Its just a question of when
I’ve told you time and again
I’ll get all the love you’ve been denying

Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
Sooner or later, girl, you’ve got to give in
Sooner or later, love is gonna let ya
Sooner or later, love is gonna win

You say you’ll never be mine
But darling, they’ll come a time
I’ll taste all that love that you’ve been hiding
Its just a question of time
Before you make up your mind
And give all that love you’ve been denying

You’ve been looking for love
In all the wrong places
You’ve been looking for love
All the wrong faces
Gotta get ya girl
On this illusion
Gonna save your heart
From all this confusion

Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
Sooner or later, girl, you’ve got to give in
Sooner or later, love is gonna let ya
Sooner or later, love is gonna win
Love is gonna win

Its just a matter of time
Before you make up your mind
And give all the love that you’ve been hiding
Its just a question of when
Told you time and again
I’ll get all the love you’ve been denying

Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
Sooner or later, girl, you’ve got to give in
Sooner or later, love is gonna let ya
Sooner or later, love is gonna win
Sooner or later, love is gonna get ya
Sooner or later, girl, you’ve got to give in