Robert Pollard
“Love is Stronger Than Witchcraft b/w “Dolphins of Color (Live)”
2006. The Fading Captain Series
“Love is stronger than witchcraft” is a line from the 1942 movie I Married a Witch. You can find it toward the end at the climax, spoken by Veronica Lake.
That’s not just trivia to me. I like to know things like that. It makes the song even better, in my view.
I like the idea that the whole world is talking to us, whether it’s the dirt on the ground or the sky above and everything that we notice in between, and all of this stuff that we see and hear each day is saying that it wants to be a song.
The artist snatches an overheard moment out of the great sideshow and now owns it to use for his or her own purposes.
Where do they go from there? Anywhere.
Robert Pollard’s song is not about Veronica Lake. At least I don’t think that it is. My take is that it’s about how love is the only way. Most of us will never be perfect according to the ancient rules of religion, but we’ll always be on the right path as long as we follow love. Anything that removes us from that is so much witchcraft.
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