Music Review: Lilly Wood, The Prick & Robin Schulz "Prayer In C"

Lilly Wood, The Prick & Robin Schulz

Prayer In  C

Album: N/A

Year: 2014

          Lilly Wood believes  people will eventually see through her ex-boyfriend in the           scant “Prayer In C.”

           A hardened guitar opens the single, setting a karmic tone. They were supposed to meet for lunch a week ago. He didn’t call or text her. At first, she called and texted him to find out what was going on. She was worried that something had happened to him. After a couple days passed, she realized he broke up with her. It was painful and humilating. She’ll never speak to him again. (“Yeah, you never said a word/You didn't send me no letter/Don't think I could forgive you.”)

                In the first chorus, he contacts her a month later asking if they could talk. She tells him no chance. He says he was wrong and that he wasn’t ready. She hangs up on him. (“See, our world is slowly dying/I'm not wasting no more time/Don't think I could believe you.”)

                 The first verse and chorus are sung again.

                She says her opinion in ten or even thirty years. She could meet him in a retirement community and ignore him. (“Yeah, our hands will get more wrinkled/And our hair, it will be grey/Don't think I could forgive you.”)

            In the second chorus, she says there are bigger problems going on in the world. Families do not have to enough to eat and have to worry about where they are going to live next. They’re going to hear his sad story and come to the conclusion that he brought it upon himself. (“And see the children are starving/And their houses were destroyed/Don't think they could forgive you.”)

           It could be the end of world – the oceans rising to the neighborhoods, ruining cities. He will be reevaulating his life, wondering how he got so far gone.  (“Hey, when seas will cover lands/And when men will be no more/Don't think you can forgive you.”)

             In the third chorus, she says he could be on his deathbed, regretting his past decisions. (“Yeah, when there'll just be silence/And when life will be over/Don't think you will forgive you.”)

               The first verse and chorus are sung twice.

               The second verse and chorus are sung again.

               The third verse and chorus are sung again.

             Wood’s smoky vocals are tough but are full of heartbreak. There is depth to vocals, despite them not being fully fleshed out.

          Schulz’s slight arrangement has it moments but it’s not as strong as Mr. Probz’s “Waves.” He doesn’t seem to have done much except maybe add some flashes here and there.

        Without a varied arrangement, the repetitive  “Prayer In C” falls into its own self-destructive loop.