Never Tell the World

Contrary to popular opinion, Free Design is not all fun and games: It's not just kite flying and bubble blowing. Free Design is not afraid to tackle more serious social issues such as taboo relations. In fact, this subject matter is precisely the focus of the wonderfully harmonized tune "Never Tell the World."

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Never Tell the World
The Free Design

Never tell the world, no, no, no.

Never tell the world, never give it reason
To mock a love like ours; never sing our song.
Keep it locked inside, keep it just between us.
Keep it secret, never confide until they all have seen us.

Never has the world complied with a love that seems to reproach it;
And every wrong-spoken word that we’ve ever heard....warns us:
We better keep our cool, our love’s too precious,
People hate a broken rule, people won’t accept us.

But someday the world might change and a love like ours might belong,
But until that day comes along...never tell.

Their love is pure, but the world is not. The first time I heard this song, I assumed it was about interracial dating. Over time, I recognized the ambiguity of the lyrics leave the circumstances of this relationship up in the air. It could be so much sexier than an interracial pairing. They could be homosexual in a time before gay marriage, or perhaps there could be a large age gap, the kind of adorable statutory rape scenario that similarly inspired Alanis Morissette to pen songs. And maybe, just maybe it's about an inter-species relationship. We'll have to look for clues of bestiality when we investigate the song "Daniel Dolphin" in the future.

Only today, however, while preparing this post did the most obvious answer strike me: incest! Duh, it's a family band. According to the band's website, sisters Sandy and Stephanie "urgently" cowrote the lyrics to this song before calling upon their brother to add some music. It is a collaboration out of inspiration and/or necessity.

With any luck, some day society will be accepting of their affection. In the meantime, love freely, Free Design.