Somehow Our Love Survives was written with Joe Sample a few years back and included on an album by Joe, sung not by Michael, but by Al Jarreau. It's updated here a bit and takes a different feeling as sung by the author. In The Yellow House is a song from Michael's play Noa Noa. It's a duet, a conversation between Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gaguin. Sadness abounds here, Michael seems distant but his lyric is still so poetic, for lack of a better term. This album, which might be another indicator of the distance, is the last studio album from Michael for Warner Brothers.