Lennon wrote: "Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you", Kahlil Gibran wrote: "half of what i say is meaningless, but i say it so the other half may reach you." I think anyone who is a poet or a songwriter knows that you write a line to communicate what's on your mind, then you work on a somewhat appropriate line that will rhyme with it, that may not say what you'd really like for it to say, but it's the best that can be done. Sometimes the writer inverts the two lines and the meaningless line comes first in order to make a better song or poem, or to give the latter line more emphasis, but you use the meaningless line anyway in order to create a song or a poem in the hopes that this will make what you want to say important enough for others to pay attention to it, and perhaps even to outlast your own life, to continue to communicate with those who will come after you are gone. Perhaps this is what Lennon and Gibran meant...
Lennon wrote: "Half of what I say is meaningless But I say it just to reach you", Kahlil Gibran wrote: "half of what i say is meaningless, but i say it so the other half may reach you." I think anyone who is a poet or a songwriter knows that you write a line to communicate what's on your mind, then you work on a somewhat appropriate line that will rhyme with it, that may not say what you'd really like for it to say, but it's the best that can be done. Sometimes the writer inverts the two lines and the meaningless line comes first in order to make a better song or poem, or to give the latter line more emphasis, but you use the meaningless line anyway in order to create a song or a poem in the hopes that this will make what you want to say important enough for others to pay attention to it, and perhaps even to outlast your own life, to continue to communicate with those who will come after you are gone. Perhaps this is what Lennon and Gibran meant...