Music Review: Taylor Dayne "I'll Be Your Shelter"

Taylor Dayne

I’ll Be Your Shelter

Album: Can’t Fight Fate

Year: 1990

            Taylor Dayne promises to protect her boyfriend in the capable “I’ll Be Your Shelter.”

            Encouraging synths open the single, setting an uplifting tone. She asks him how everything is going as she cuts up vegetables for dinner. He says better. He was just having a rough day. She squeezes his shoulder and gives him a kiss. He tells her thanks and reaches for the tomato. She wants to be his best friend. Someone he can talk to when he feels he doesn’t have anyone else. (“When there's clouds hangin' in your sky/And they're just not  lettin' any light in/And you feel like you'd like to give in/Don’t you give up so soon/What you need is a friend  to count on/What you got, baby you got someone/Who will stay when the  rain is fallin'/And won't let it fall on you/I'll see you through/I'll cover yu with a love so deep and warm and true/I will be there.”)

          In the chorus, she says she will keep him away from his troubles and stand up for him. (“Honey I'll be your shelter/I'll be tho one to take you  through the night/Whenever you need shelter I'll make everthing  alright/Make everthing alright.”)

           She tells him she can help him through whatever happens. She’ll love him despite it. (“I got arms strong enough to hold you/Get you through anything you go through/Anything that you need/You know it's only a touch away/When your heart needs a heart beside it/Should be mine that it's  keeping time with /'Coz I got so much love

inside it/It beats for yu every day/I'll be the one /To give you love /When It seems like

there's just not enough/Mine will be there.”)

           The chorus is sung again.

            A variation of the first verse ends the single. (“I'll see you through/I'll cover you with a love so deep and warm and  true/I will be there.”)

              Dayne husky vocals can handle the weight. There is no burden to heavy for her to carry. There’s a feistiness to her voice that suits the fast tempo singles well.

            The adept  “I’ll Be Your Shelter” can hold its own.