Here’s another throwback, a timeless track from Tracy Chapman. With “Baby Can I Hold You,” the artist’s quavering vocals clear away the clutter accumulated over a long-term relationship. We get the sense of two souls sitting across from one another, taking inventory, putting everything on the table. But the narrator (Chapman) isn’t much interested in that project—too many years and promises already squandered. Her vocals, like the slow and deliberate sweep of a hand, brush all her lover’s words into the bin of what’s been said and done. All that’s left and wanted is the asking of an embrace and the granting of it.
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