Let It Be

If you believe the urban legend that Paul died in 1966, then the person who took Paul's place said this about "Let It Be": “Let go, and let God.” It is an attitude of total acceptance. It is like the phrase, “Whatever will be, will be.” Let God worry about it. The real message, no matter what you go through, is simply to accept it. Let everything go according to the divine plan. That is a key to happiness. It is a choice. We can each trust the universe, or God, or angels, to make our lives turn out for the best. This core belief is empowering and self-fulfilling. If we truly believe that everything works out for our own benefit, we align with the universe to make it so. “Let It Be” is written to accept everything we experience, but is particularly about accepting death. Everyone dies. Most of us live long enough that we must accept the death of loved ones . It’s never easy. One time in an interview I said that the song was about that loss. I lied.   Since that time, I have had to deal with the loss of Linda.  That was in 1998. It is frowned on by some for me to still miss her, but I did not stop living when she did.   Part of me is with her; but others loves have been great too. I enjoy marvelous relationships. However they are not replacements. People are not replaceable.   Each loved one is unique and wonderful. We can replace possessions, but not relationships. They continue. Everything in life must be allowed to be. “Let It Be” was about the end of The Beatles, but was about the death of Paul more so.   This song has some of our best Paul clues. In a dream, my mother told me it will be all right. She wisely told me not to worry, and that everything would turn out as it should. It would be all right. The gist of her message was to “Let it be.” Like Bob Marley’s 1977 song, “Three Little Birds,” the message was “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.” In “Let It Be,” I sing of “broken hearted people.” Who are these people? What broke their hearts? These are people who are still “living in the world,” but grieve for those who are not, for those who “may be parted.” They grieve for those who have crossed over. Losing a loved one is like having part of one’s own heart cut out. It hurts physically and emotionally, but can eventually be healed by accepting what i. Why fight it?   Fretting about it, disagreeing with it, eating ourselves up over it, cannot change it.   It is not the way to peace. “Let It Be” teaches acceptance of Paul’s death. Between the familiar words, I whispered messages.  I sing, “Whisper words of wisdom.”   Have you ever wondered what words of wisdom are whispered in that song?   The subconsciously heard truth to let be is hidden in that song after the words, “though they may be parted.”   Listen carefully, and maybe even turn that space up louder, to hear the whispered words of wisdom: “Paul is dead.”Hear any other whispered words of wisdom?   Do you really want to?   Play it backwards.   Once, as I entered the studio, not long before writing, “Let It Be,” I wondered what the words “He’s dead” would sound like played backward.   I recorded it, played it backward, and heard something that was, to my   delight, compatible enough with, “Let it be.”   Its wisdom, when put together, evoked much of the enlightenment of that hit song.   The message is, “He’s dead; let it be.”   It is time to accept his death and move on.   After recording a vocal track forward, I played it backward through my headphones, and dubbed over those words of truth and wisdom: “He’s dead.   He’s dead.   He’s dead.   He’s dead.” When you hear me sing “Let it be.   Let it be.   Let it be.   Let it be,” in the forward direction, I am equally loudly singing “He’s dead.   He’s dead.   He’s dead.   He’s dead,” going backward.   In this way, I let your mind consciously take in “Let it be” at the same time that you all subconsciously heard me express what it is that you should let be: “He’s dead.”   Paul is dead.   Let it be.

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