As fate would have it, they initially had a hard time selling "Thin Line Between Love & Hate" - which would go on to become their biggest hit and the title track of this, their 1972 debut LP. Rounding out the inaugural lineup were Doug "Smokey" Scott and James "B.J." Barnes, who hailed from the Poindexters' hometown of Newport News, VA. However, the combo's lineage is actually rooted in New York City where siblings Richard Poindexter and Robert Poindexter scored sides for the likes of Linda Jones ("Hypnotized") and - making that all-important connection to the City of Brotherly Love - the O'Jays ("I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow"). In certain senses the wrong road is in some cases not a deliberate choice, but a suspension of one, while the man reflecting realizes that he at one point or other decided to be how he is.BThe Persuaders' sexy and smooth R&B vocals often have the quartet linked to the prolific Philly soul movement of the 1970s. What is then being called to choose the wrong road, let's imagine a road of decay, indecency, callousness, surliness, might have its roots in apprehension, delicacy, preference or straight out fear. So, again this grey zone, the righteous path is neither wholly selfless. The song, in one fugue, speaks of acceptance, but in the other, 'my soul will fly and I will live forever', to me, it seems that the right road the speaker has chosen is hoped to lead them to or maintain for them their immortality. that could have caused this other to choose the wrong road.
The reflection leads this guy to decide that he who has chosen the 'wrong road' is not bad per se, that there is a large ambiguous grey zone of possible reasons, drives, motives, sentimentalities. This song seems to be from the point of view of someone who has chosen good encountering another who has chosen a different path, who does not display the same fighter's spirit, and is reflecting back on when and how it was that they themselves came to deciding to being a certain way. This 'fighter spirit' does duty for what I have called being good. Upon realizing the importance of serving all that is good, what then after makes a person turn to wrong? 'Is it a want to be', is highly ambiguous: it might mean to say is it a natural inclination to want to be otherwise, to not want to subsume some accepted or aspired to mode of being 'belong' has it that a person's turning to being outwardly wrong is another way of fashioning a persona and through that persona the person gains a sense of belong as that thing which is naturally deviate from the more regular drive to be good. Not everyone finds fulfillment in the same mode of being, the song is exploring the 'darker side' of the psyche. 'When a person turns to wrong, is it a want to be, belong?' I think resumes the specifics of what the song serves to speak about. I get a different reading from this song. There's a long and winding road and the trail is there to burn
Just a thin line drawn between being a genius or insaneĪt what age begin to learn of which way out we will turn? Just a few small tears between someone happy and one sad We all like to put the blame on society these daysīut what kind of good or bad a new generation brings
There's a grey place between black and white Wider divide that you can see between good and bad There's a thin line between love and hate
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