This Love

Album: Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
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Songfacts®:

  • This moody rocker seems to explore the turbulent dynamics of love, with the singer making a painful detachment from the relationship for his own good. The inspiration was far more primitive, however: It is a message to what lead singer Phil Anselmo calls "clingy women."

    "I was young, and thought, 'Let's not make more of this relationship than need be,'" Anselmo said in his Songfacts interview.
  • Kevin Kerslake directed the video, which demonstrates the mercenary side of love by showing prostitutes at work. In one scene, Phil Anselmo is wearing a T-shirt with the logo for another one of his bands, Down.

Comments: 2

  • Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcMy favorite Pantera song.
  • Isaiah from UsaThis song is getting me through my split
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