Songs that I have danced in summer (Bob Marley - Could you be loved)

By 1978, Bob Marley was already a recognized figure in Jamaica. And not just because of his music. He had managed to get two bitter political rivals, Prime Minister Michael Manley, and the leader of the opposition, Edward Seaga, to shake hands in a massive event, which earned him the UN Medal of Peace in June of that. anus.

In 79 ', Marley worked on the last feature he released while alive: Uprising. His promotional single was "Could you be loved". This composition, and the album in general, are crossed by references to religion. Two years earlier he had been diagnosed with cancer, and by the end of the decade, his health condition began to slowly deteriorate.

According to the most accepted versions, the guitarist wrote the song during a flight from Brazil. Its lyrics contain phrases that can also be read as references to biblical texts. "Love never leaves us alone/in the dark it must go out to illuminate / You can be loved and be loved/you can be and be loved", is related to the verse "because nothing is secret, that will not be made manifest, nor will it be hidden nothing, that will not be known and cannot be known "(Luke 8.17).