Everybody seems to agree that the song's about Brian Epstein, but I don't see where anyone has used that fact to interpret the lyric "tuned to a natural E". Of all notes, why E? For Epstein of course. "Happy to be that way". Epstein was happy to be who he naturally was. Gay, presumably. "Now that you've found another key, what are you going to play?" Another key? Had he expressed romantic interest in a woman maybe? Nothing I found in Wikipedia suggests anything of the sort. Just thinking aloud what this passage might mean. Am I nuts or am I on to something here?
Everybody seems to agree that the song's about Brian Epstein, but I don't see where anyone has used that fact to interpret the lyric "tuned to a natural E". Of all notes, why E? For Epstein of course. "Happy to be that way". Epstein was happy to be who he naturally was. Gay, presumably. "Now that you've found another key, what are you going to play?" Another key? Had he expressed romantic interest in a woman maybe? Nothing I found in Wikipedia suggests anything of the sort. Just thinking aloud what this passage might mean. Am I nuts or am I on to something here?