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When Push Comes to Shove, the Greatest Thing is Love

from Forget Me Nots by Bruce Pumpa

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I did not want to have any love songs on the album; not songs about romantic love as such, but a song about the greatest thing "Love" is something else. Love is what binds us together, like the way we love people who we have absolutely nothing in common with. I think the song is a bit inspired by the likes of Neil Young, Blur, Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole.

Jeremy and I tried to make the start of the song like hearing a radio playing inside a shed and as you open the door the sound becomes clearer and more focussed. It's got a bit of a steel guitar and synthesiser thing going through it. This and the minor chords seem to give the song a sort of haunting quality, The guys in the band seem to really enjoy playing and singing this.

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When Push Comes to Shove, The Greatest Thing is Love
(Bruce Pumpa)

I don’t want to make too finer point of it
And I know it’s gonna hurt a little bit

(Chorus)
(But) when push comes to shove, the greatest thing is love
(The greatest thing is love)
Thank the heavens above for this great thing that is love
(The greatest thing is love)

It’s written in the stars, we should shout it from our cars
The greatest thing is love (The greatest thing is love)
I see it on the street, it’s with people when they meet
The greatest thing is love (The greatest thing is love)

I don’t want to make a welter out of it
But I want to tell you all about it

(Chorus)

You see it in the eyes of the children when they smile
The greatest thing is love (The greatest thing is love)
You feel it in the air when you’re with the ones who care
The greatest thing is love ((The greatest thing is love)

(Solos: Digital steel guitar, Piano, Harmonica)

I know that you have heard it all before
But can I say as you’re heading for the door

(Chorus)

You hear it on the news, it’s with people who share your views
The greatest thing is love (The greatest thing is love)
And with people who you don’t, with some always won’t
But the greatest thing is love (The greatest thing is love)

Outro
The greatest thing is love (The greatest thing is love) x2
When push comes to shove, the greatest thing is love
(The greatest thing is love)
The greatest thing is love (The greatest thing is love) x2
The greatest thing

credits

from Forget Me Nots, released August 27, 2013
Bruce Pumpa
(Words and music)

Bruce Pumpa: vocals, piano, digital steel guitar, synthesiser, drums, harmonica, maracas, vocal chorus
Jeremy P Martin: electric and acoustic guitar, vocal chorus
Richard Grace: double bass

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Bruce Pumpa Melbourne, Australia

Hi, I'm Bruce Pumpa. I am a singer, songwriter, musician from Melbourne. I write about things that are important to me, like family, love, compassion, respect, dancing. I have recorded an EP and two albums with Jeremy P Martin engineering and co-producing and have a wonderful band the Perfect Gentlemen who I sing and play keyboards with. I also play drums in a great cover band the Flying Sorcerers ... more

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