Third Factory Notebook

"Need, demand, and desire (or, Lacanian pop): It's easy enough to hear 'Prove My Love' as a less (or differently) jilted rewrite of 'Ain't No Mountain' (to which I was subjected in another enclosed commercial environment today). But the latter loses me with the 'valley low enough' line. A low valley doesn't fall into the category of sublime obstacle the overcoming of which demonstrates (proves) my equally sublime capacity for answering the beloved's every demand. In other words, it just sounds too doable--at least in my 'imaginary domain.'"

I always thought of the "valley low" as being filled with thickets, bogs, quicksand, snakes, etc--worse than the mountain, even. As in "so wide you can't go around it, so low you can't go under it".