1. The Mountain's High (2:13) - This moderate-speed song is my favorite song by the duo and the only one I ever hear on the radio. For simplicity I'll use a male narrator for all songs (unless I note otherwise) especially since Dick recorded two vocal tracks--one baritone, one falsetto. (Dee Dee sang midrange vocals on the duo's recordings.) The guy in this song faces a high mountain and a deep valley, but he doesn't let that stop him from coming home to his girlfriend. He tells her not to cry, but rather to have faith that he'll come back. Shortly after the 1:30 mark, the key rises a half-step.
2. Tell Me (2:14) - The tempo is slow. The narrator asks the girl why their relationship has ended. Perhaps she has found a new boyfriend, and the narrator is history in her mind. Whatever the reason, to know it means everything to the narrator
3. When You're Young And In Love (2:20) - Musically, this is a near-twin to the previous song. But the mood is different: when young couples are in love, they're in paradise. The sky seems to brighten just for them. Night seems to turn to day just for them. "The whole world seems to know."
4. Love Is A Once In A Lifetime Thing (1:53) - Indeed it is. Realizing this, each lover promises the other never to depart. This song has a slow, 12/8 tempo. My favorite part of it is where the duo speak: he tells her to bow her head and pray; she tells him she'll allay his worries.
5. Where Did The Good Times Go (2:42) - The tempo is somewhat slower than moderate. Here's another song where the narrator wonders what went wrong in his relationship with the girl to whom he's singing. The night before the setting, he saw her kissing another guy. Now he phones her one last time, hoping she'll tell him where their good times went.
6. Turn Around (2:40) - The narrator of this slow, 12/8 song is a father for whom time passes swiftly as his children grow. From the time his son is 2 years old, to the time he is 4, to the day he starts living on his own, seems like a short time. Likewise, so do the years from his daughter's girlhood, to her womanhood, to the time she has her own children. The last verse illustrates empty-nest syndrome, or anxiety that parents feel when their children become independent.
7. All My Trials (2:52) - This song would be nice to sing at someone's funeral. It has a moderate tempo. The narrator tells his brothers (both blood and spirit) not to mourn when he dies.
8. Thou Shalt Not Steal (2:00) - This fast song applies one of the Ten Commandments to a secular situation: the girl being stolen from the narrator by another guy. He believes that someday the other guy will "reap what he sows" when yet another guy steals her from HIM.
9. Just Round The River Bend (2:18) - This slow song features the gentle rolls of chimes. When falling stars vanish from sight and dreams fade at dawn, they end up in the area where a river empties into a sea. The narrator believes a rainbow awaits him there.
10. Be My Baby (1:50) - No, this song is not the Ronettes' hit. But instruments include a tambourine, and Dick's falsetto is prominently featured here; his character promises his girl eternal happiness if she accepts the love he offers her.
11. Blue Turns To Gray (2:38) - This song, slightly faster than moderate, must have been previously sung by the Rolling Stones, since Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it. Anyway, the title is enough to describe what happens when a girl leaves a guy, when she's never home for him to call her and doesn't attend any parties he hosts.
12. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love (2:05) - The fast tempo and the audible piano match how good the narrator feels to have the girlfriend he has. He loves her so much that he'd do anything to satisfy her, and of course, he always needs more and more of her love! And if you can't get enough of Dick and Dee Dee, then you can set your disc player to repeat mode and hear "The Mountain's High" again.