"and though she tried her best to help me, she could steal, but she could not rob"
it sounds like shes not good enough for him
she always tried yet it was never enough
it would make sense in the context of him trying to pull a heist but can not
bc she helps and is not good enough!
and she talked herself up a bunch by saying she could make all this money
"She said she'd always been a dancer, She worked at 15 clubs a day"
but come on, its The Beatles, there has to be something deeper
thats just an idea
however, i've listened to this song ever since i was young and it always sounded like it was sexual
I take this to mean that she could break into people's homes and take what isn't hers, but in a direct confrontation with someone she can't stand her ground. I see robbing more as holding a gun to someone's head and saying, "Give me your wallet!".
I take this to mean that she could break into people's homes and take what isn't hers, but in a direct confrontation with someone she can't stand her ground. I see robbing more as holding a gun to someone's head and saying, "Give me your wallet!".
"Now she sucks her thumb and wanders/By the banks of het own lagoon" to me is her contemplating the direction her life has taken and how she's failed at living her dreams. This ties into "Didn't anybody tell her?/Didn't anybody see?/Sunday's...
"Now she sucks her thumb and wanders/By the banks of het own lagoon" to me is her contemplating the direction her life has taken and how she's failed at living her dreams. This ties into "Didn't anybody tell her?/Didn't anybody see?/Sunday's on the phone to Monday/Tuesdays on the phone to me." with the way that days connect and time flies so swiftly that one day you're a pretty young wealthy woman breaking into people's homes for sport and the next you're middle aged and sitting by the dismal lagoon of your own life wondering where you went wrong.
"and though she tried her best to help me, she could steal, but she could not rob"
it sounds like shes not good enough for him she always tried yet it was never enough
it would make sense in the context of him trying to pull a heist but can not bc she helps and is not good enough! and she talked herself up a bunch by saying she could make all this money "She said she'd always been a dancer, She worked at 15 clubs a day" but come on, its The Beatles, there has to be something deeper
thats just an idea
however, i've listened to this song ever since i was young and it always sounded like it was sexual
"she could steal but she could not rob"
"she could steal but she could not rob"
I take this to mean that she could break into people's homes and take what isn't hers, but in a direct confrontation with someone she can't stand her ground. I see robbing more as holding a gun to someone's head and saying, "Give me your wallet!".
I take this to mean that she could break into people's homes and take what isn't hers, but in a direct confrontation with someone she can't stand her ground. I see robbing more as holding a gun to someone's head and saying, "Give me your wallet!".
"Now she sucks her thumb and wanders/By the banks of het own lagoon" to me is her contemplating the direction her life has taken and how she's failed at living her dreams. This ties into "Didn't anybody tell her?/Didn't anybody see?/Sunday's...
"Now she sucks her thumb and wanders/By the banks of het own lagoon" to me is her contemplating the direction her life has taken and how she's failed at living her dreams. This ties into "Didn't anybody tell her?/Didn't anybody see?/Sunday's on the phone to Monday/Tuesdays on the phone to me." with the way that days connect and time flies so swiftly that one day you're a pretty young wealthy woman breaking into people's homes for sport and the next you're middle aged and sitting by the dismal lagoon of your own life wondering where you went wrong.