Beach House - “Take Care”
I watched a lot of friends get married this year, and as I would sit there in my black suit (or stand in line with the rest of the groomsmen), I would often find myself thinking about “Take Care.” It’s got that regal, dramatic, roll-the-credits pace to it, sure, and Victoria Legrand sells her delivery like few other singers can, but it’s that main line from the chorus—“I’ll take care of you / if you ask me to” (or is it “I’d?”)—that I kept coming back to. It’s so simple it almost seems silly to type it out, and yet it contains implications of very deep consequence. At the beginning it’s all wine and roses: “We can’t hide the way it makes us glow…feel this burning, love of mine.” But then she pulls a switch at the end of the first verse with “hillsides burning, wild-eyed turning / ‘til we’re running from it.” I read it this way: the world is a rough, scary place and trying to love another person in the midst of it is difficult and risky. The line “I’ll take care of you” acknowledges that you won’t always be ‘glowing’ or ‘burning,’ that sometimes you’ll be sick or jobless or angry, and it pledges devotion in spite of it. Voila!: Beach House give Teen Dream its ever-after ending.
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