Paul Is Dead

I'm guessing the title is a joke about how fans can try to look for all sorts of ridiculous meanings in songs. So they attached to a song with very straightforward lyrics.

I can't make out all of the words, but I'm pretty sure it should be, "And he sang so unselfconsiously/Like it never would occur to me" (meaning, Ira would be more reserved, himself)

Interesting little song...two seemingly-unrelated little observations making up each of the two verses. Both poignant in their own peculiar way (though the first verse is definitely the more peculiar of the two)

The title is probably neither here nor there. Electr-O-Pura has a lot of deliberate weirdness: like, have you noticed how all of the times listed (on the back cover) for the songs are way off? The epic last song, "Blue Line Swinger", is listed as being only three-minutes-and-something: but it's more like eight or nine minutes. (When I heard that one live, I thought Georgia was going to bust right through the drum heads...)

I read an interview where they said their longest songs were often panned by the critics, so they tried to fool people into thinking the long songs were shorter.

There seem to be all kinds of inside jokes in the song titles. Such as the repetition of "Hot Chicken", though there seems absolutely no connection to the earlier song also containing those words in the title. Or the fact that the line "Straight down to the bitter end" doesn't actually appear in the song of that title, but rather in "False Alarm".

Does this song have anything to do with the "Paul is Dead" theory of the 60's?

i don't think so. i'd kind of hoped it did though.

oh so delicate