"Parliament’s ‘(You’re a Fish and I’m a) Water Sign’ is an unabashed ode to passion, to the base and the sensual, to the possibilities of love in the juiciest ways it can exist between people. The song moans into being, a beseeching follows, then there’s a bass so low you can’t possibly get under it, and finally the central question is posed: ‘Can we get down?’ In true Parliament fashion, the tune doesn’t follow a traditional verse-chorus-bridge structure; it consists of an ever-evolving chorus that departs from the lines ‘I want to be / on the seaside of love with you / let’s go swimming / the water’s fine.’ The arrangement is magnificent and the execution velvety, and the soulful, overlapping ad-libs of George Clinton, Walter ‘Junie”’Morrison, and Ron Ford are just romantic lagniappe. ...”
Mosaic in Maltezana
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