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Beatles under a microscope - Sgt. Peppers
Brynjar:
--- Quote ---I think this song is about a daughter who has come from a family who has worked their way up to being middle class. They are a family who can afford to '[give] her everything money could buy', a private education perhaps. In this family, the parents having come from hardship and value money, and to them that is the most significant thing in their lives, it is the thing which matters most and therefore clouds their judgement.
The girl is said to have felt 'alone'. This could be because of the pressure her parents have put on her to perform in school, succeed in life which has left her isolated from her parents and friends. Her parents may not have approved of her friends or activities she wanted to do, 'fun', which is expressed in the song as something 'money can't buy'. Because of all of this she could be frustrated and emotionally alone and is pushed to run away to experience freedom, passion, emotion, 'fun'. She runs away with a 'man from the motor trade', a low-earning profession which her parents would certainly have dissaproved of, but he may have been the first person to make her feel free...make her feel the something that she was missing in her life, that her parents couldn't give to her.
However, she is aware that her parents are good people, knowing they want the best for her, hence the first verse where she leaves a note which she 'hopes will say more', in way of explaining how she feels to them, a desperate last plea to have them understand.
To me, the crux of the poem is the parents - who are probably good people, albeit maybe driven by money given possible hardships in the past - want the best for their daughter, but they cannot understand at all that what is best for them (money) is not best for her. Because of this, she is emotionally isolated...trapped, and runs away with a man to experience the freedom that she was 'denied for so many years', and her parents are left confused and hurt as they thought they were doing their best.
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http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/942/
Brynjar:
Read it´s Paul with a ton of echo on his voice, and that people mistakenly think it's John:
A Day In The Life - Vocal Isolated
Hello Goodbye:
It was Paul
nimrod:
Twas great to see it at no 1 in the UK again
cheer1 cheer1 cheer1
Hello Goodbye:
--- Quote from: nimrod on June 19, 2017, 11:31:18 PM ---Twas great to see it at no 1 in the UK again
cheer1 cheer1 cheer1
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It's like going back to 1967 :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cp4VTztoao
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