| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Also, I love this song because it expresses my biggest fear. Being abandoned or dying a slow, painful death with nobody around would be the worst ways to die. | |
| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is good at asking questions. It's only fitting that it makes us ask even more questions. I think that Father McKenzie and Eleanor Rigby lived together. They are lonely people, but they are together. They know each other, but no-one else knows them. They are separated from the world. -Why is the rice IN a church? -"Lives in a dream"? Dreams are usually good. Does she not realize she's lonely? -"Waits at the window..." What is she waiting for? It doesn't say "sitting at the window", it says "waits"... Maybe she is waiting for a visitor? Someone to rid her of her loneliness? She is wearing her public face, waiting for someone, hoping someone will come. -"Writing the words of a sermon that no-one will hear". FORESHADOWING... key word is "will". Eleanor will not hear the next sermon, because she will die before it. -"No-one comes near" It sounds as if he is purposely being avoided by the rest of the world. Eleanor does not come near because she is waiting at the window. Makes me think of a nun and a priest, because they have their separate living quarters. -"Darning" means to mend, or to sew. Why does it matter that no-one is there while he is sewing? -"Buried along with her name" makes me think that she had no influence on anything, as if she never existed (ironic that there is a song about her)... Her name will not be spoken again, because Father McKenzie has no-one to talk to. If no-one comes near Father McKenzie, then Eleanor's memory will be buried with Father McKenzie. -"Wiping the dirt from his hands" just shows that he was the only one there. He had to dig the grave and do the funeral. -"No-one was saved". Is it the Christian meaning of saved? Saved from loneliness possibly? Because Father McKenzie is the only one left, maybe he is thinking that no-one was saved from death? Notice the contrast between the first verse, with Eleanor hoping and living in a dream; and the second verse, which uses the words "no-one" or "nobody" in every line, followed by "What does he care?". Eleanor's verse isn't very negative, it's just strange. Father McKenzie's verse is very very negative. That's my view on it. |
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| The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I heard something about their honeymoon. Supposedly, the press and photographers were bothering them so much, following them around and such. They followed them into their hotel room, or were looking in the windows, or something, so John and Yoko went ahead "honeymooning" right in front of them. I don't remember where I found that, though... | |
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