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Originally Posted by Macfan4life
Ignore the haters. Skies the limit is a great song. I love everything about it INCLUDING the spelling!!!!!
Yes it was a song quickly thrown together and it shows. But IMHO it shows the talent of Chris because even in a pinch she can write and put down some great chords. Supposedly BTM was finished and after playback the consensus was the album was very dark and lacked the typical peppy Chris song. So they came up with Skies the limit quickly and threw it on the first track, side one. It has some great harmonies with the 4 singers too. I particularly like Chris's keyboard playing and Mick's cracking of the drums.
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i have an old audio interview w chris from BTM time and she had this to say about Skies the Limit-- i don't think the album was finished but they were a few songs in when stevie (who obviously hadn't been there much) decided it sounded dark...
"That was actually written as a consequence of Stevie coming in one day and saying, "These songs are so depressing!!" Because I think we'd recorded hard feelings and I think we recorded a couple of others-- love is dangerous, and behind the mask, and she'd heard like a whole string of songs that, back-to-back had a kind of a dark side, you know, so we sort of sat around kind of tended to agree with her that it was a bit serious vibe, you know, when you hear them like that. So I went home and I said to my husband, 'we're going to write a happy song. Now what constitutes a happy line?' and I just thought the sky's the limit. And we just went from there. The song ended up being not so much of a love song but a kind of anthem to the band. You know, the words are very dual, double-edged sword kind of thing. You can take it as being with a romantic context, or not, and the words kind of read as sort of a tribute to the new band if you like."
--Lis