The Proposal

Album: Turn the Lights On (2015)
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  • This song finds Rico Love touching on the reasons why people get engaged. He explained during a Reddit AMA: "I believe that marriage used to be a thing about love, it used to be about two people coming together and believing in a common cause. Now I feel like it's a business transaction, you gotta protect yourself because if this happens, they can take this from you... I'm not as intrigued by it as I used to be when I was a kid, it's become so political."

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