Contract on Love
Relatively straightforward and uncontroversial use of legal concepts by Mr. Wonder, who elsewhere has musically ruminated on the formalities of executing deeds in Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
Here Mr Wonder addresses the formal ingredients of a binding legal agreement. “You've got to sign/My contract on love,” he sings. “Write it in your heart/That you'll never do anything/To ever make us part.”
Clearly, the formalities of evidencing a consensus ad idem are important to Mr Wonder — of course at the forefront of his mind in Signed, Sealed, Delivered, when he finally implores his contractual counterparty of love to: “Sign it. Sign it. Sign it. Sign it.”