| Wings – Let 'Em In Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[wigwamclan:42182] Cool! That makes sense. Glad we both felt there was a lot in this song! I heard the Rolling Stone critics at the time went out of their way to ignore any depth to it and treated it as empty lyrics. | |
| Wings – Let 'Em In Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Let ’em in” — hard not to see that song as a metaphor for loving humanity. Even as a kid, hearing the tune on the radio for the first time, it was clear that Paul was singing about letting people into our hearts — dropping our ego mind games and opening our eyes to the holy in others — a pretty radical idea. Also, hard to ignore the song’s offhand allusion to “Martin Luther” a name you might call MLK if you were a friend. So (even if just subconsciously on Paul’s part — he was writing this album quickly after all) this song suggests a plea for agape, for radically loving humanity and for peace in the world. Its a profound message hidden with the casual line “do me a favour and let ’em in.” Too bad critics were so against Paul in the 1970s that they dismissed this as some house-party ditty (come on in y’all and party with the McCartney’s!). Really the song is even deeper than “Imagine” -- where John sings about the poison of surface things — borders, ideologies, etc. — Paul is going to the root of it all, the human heart. The Beatle’s were the universe’s gift to humanity, a correction for WW2. Its sad that one of their leaders is still not given the credit he deserves for his depth. Macca’s lightness of touch and distaste for being overstated & heavy gets dismissed as superficiality. Shine on Paul! |
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