Prove it all night

The proof is left to the readerlistener

provin’ dis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25mKi3nKnUk

maybe tony etoria has some input to offer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lDXN36wCFg

note proof of ilm entering the collective subconscious in lower left corner

let's face it, contrary to such songs, NOTHING is ever really done "all night." I mean, what, 8 or 9 straight hours? of what? should be "prove it until 2/2:30 or thereabouts"

I believe I once heard about a Richard Pryor routine related to this.

Clearly Bruce is proving it by working a night shift at the factory, saving up for a new engine/guitar.

let's face it, contrary to such songs, NOTHING is ever really done "all night." I mean, what, 8 or 9 straight hours? of what? should be "prove it until 2/2:30 or thereabouts"

― henry s

i was going to say "well, i sleep all night", but given that it's 2 in the morning clearly i don't :(

I've been wondering this too. I thought at first it was just about sex, but I just took another look at the lyrics, and it seems like maybe he and his girl are about to go on some kind of crime spree over by the dynamo. Like, he's going to prove how much he cares about her by doing some unspecified bad thing, and he wants her to prove that she loves him by coming along?

I mean, he tells her to tie her hair back in a long white bow, and when Bruce gives you a dress code, you know crime is about to go down.

Well smooth it all night, well smooth it all night, and girl I’ll smooth it all night to you

in the song bruce's character is a baker who works long hours. he puts the sourdough loafs in a temperature controlled prover when he leaves at night to be ready when he gets in in the morning.

he gives his girl a loaf of bread each day, therefore "proving it all night" for her.

this is one of my favorite songs off darkness, for some reason it makes me think of a fraught couple playing pool in a bar and not talking to each other

My favorite thing about this song is all the moaning he does during the '78 live performances.

Phoenix '78 is a good one. Around the halfway mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okrvOAUg-yY

“BIG MAN!...”

Otm about the moaning. Feel like this is perhaps another example of the much noted Van Morrison influence on the album.

Which band member is doing most of the backing vocals on that live video, couldn’t quite tell.