It could be the juxtaposition of a slow dance and a fast track. And there is something so blissfully absorbing about this song. I first heard Midnight Slow Dance on the Underground EP (and finally on a UK stage in 2019). Midnight Slow Dance, Underground (and Wild World Deluxe) Love the haunting, alliterative image of ‘off in the shadows/stands a stool and a stage/where many souls before me were put on display’, the theme of loneliness amplified in ‘empty, faceless spotlight mic-stand’ and ‘to help them hold on or forget for a while’.Ĥ. Plus, ‘two tone bucket of rust’ is a great metaphor for describing an exhausted truck. No room for filler on any of Kip’s albums OR this song. To quote Shakespeare’s Polonius, “brevity is the soul of wit”, and this song stands upright with every perfectly placed word. There are fans that know about Kip’s heart wrung out over this homage to life on the road and a classic ‘80s song (Billy Joel’s Piano Man) and equally know we need more lyrical beauties like this on albums. Kip didn’t co-write this track, but I’m sure it was an easy yes when the song came his way. The reference of the fifth amendment in the title – keeping silent, less you incriminate yourself – grabs hold immediately, swiftly followed by a chorus of rhetorical questions, metaphors and alliteration in ‘have I ever mixed your memory with Tennessee?’ and ‘drown myself in 90 proof’. Speaking of metaphor, have you met anything else that conveys a bruise like, ‘got mouthy with the wrong dude and got my damn jaw tattooed’? Kip is a metaphor for honesty, and Reckless is an exercise in a three minute memoir, capturing Kip’s 20s. Metaphor, ‘I was just another/Sunset fadin’ in your eyes’.ħ. Looking for a simile to convey emotion? ‘Felt just LIKE a wrecking ball that hit me in the chest’. Alliteration turns up with ‘grindin’ through the gravel’ and ‘steel sticking’ to keep the lyrical rhythm running as easily as the music. The season and the lost love are repeated throughout the verses and chorus, with the frequent mention of burn (literal and metaphorical burning of their love). The intangible topic of themes can be difficult to grasp, until GoS, with one of the strongest lyrics, possibly because of a verb, ‘Boardwalk’s empty, gray STOLE the blue from the sky.’ With this introduction we know we’re at the end of summer. The song heads towards a metaphor, too, with the idea of kissing lipstick offering a unique way of presenting a kiss. Sometimes we might need help with Geography, too, so we turn to Lipstick, one of the most underrated Kip songs, that covers twenty-four US destinations WITH landscape references (more than double that of the classic road trip song, Route 66). (Westin Davis/David Frasier, Kip Moore, Justin Weaver) Who needs to read dead poets to ace an English test? The oxymoron in the title of bittersweet captures the emotion in this tale of lost love, while the first verse uses pathetic fallacy to match the season with the mood, ‘summer…white magnolias in bloom…winter came, brought the rain’.
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