James Taylor: Gorilla
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Brace yourself for the jungle of emotion that still reverberates through this touching classic of an album from 1975. Few albums embrace and even lean into emotions we experience through difficult times in our lives the way this album did and still does. If you layer that brilliance on top of an all star lineup of studio musicians, you get one hell of a body of music.
Whether Taylor intended this or not, we both felt that the lyrics in Gorilla the song can be taken literally as a song about a Gorilla trapped by the walls of a Zoo held captive by man or metaphorically about a person trapped by loss, addiction and other obstacles we create in our lives that can keep us back.
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