Maybe Lyrics - The Ink Spots

Episode Number 2

Song Facts:

Genre: Jazz/Pop

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Lyricist: Allan Flynn

These lyrics were written by Allan

Artist Info:

An African-American pioneering vocal jazz group, The Ink Spots were founded in the 1930s. Revered for their dulcet vocal harmonies and their mellow, crooning ballads, the group had an enormous influence on early doo-wop.
Their theme often had a recurring matter — love and yearning — dished out with a soft and melodic manner that established them. And so it was that their reach was felt outside of music, for this group even helped to break down racial barriers amongst entertainers in times of segregation.

These are pretty clear The song "Maybe" by The Ink Spots is one of the searching, hoping, or the songs that have emotions of uncertainty in relationships. It describes the feelings of a separation by a lover who had parted ways with his loved one but still held the chance of reuniting.

Chorus Interpretation:
The recurrence of "maybe" through the song lays a tone of uncertainty and hopes for the speaker to refer to something. Like when he said, "You'll think of me when you are all alone," he was pointing toward the feeling may be too deep that the one he loves will miss him.

That line speaks of the loneliness and introspection that usually come hand in hand with solitude.

Bridge Analysis:
In the stanza, "Maybe, you'll sit and sigh / Wishing that I were near," the lyrics express a moment of longing and regret. This sigh shows the depth of the emotional miss of the past times and the pain of separating. The use of the conditional "maybe" softens the ways in which these are maybe imagined scenarios by the speaker or maybe wished for by him, putting a rather wistful desirability into the tone of the song. This provides for a possibility which has the theme of betrayal and unfaithfulness: "The one who waits for you / Will be unfaithful." It gives a pretty contrasting image to what the speaker has—a constant hope. The juxtaposition develops the emotional landscape of the song, being filled in as more detail about the complexity within human relationships.