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real01
March 19, 2007, 11:08pm Report to Moderator
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...to the love... you make..."


It's a great lyrics, on of their best, if not the best, right?
It should be in life like that, right, but it often isn't...
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If you like mate. If you like.
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It's a nice thing to ponder about. So in the end, the love you took from someone is equal to the love you make to that same someone? What they are saying is that taking and making love are linearly related right? Hmm... actually if you stop and think about that you get sorta confused... I do anyway (as can be seen from this post)


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This is a statement that without doubt, stands up in life regardless of age. What a note to end The Beatles on.


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Yeah sure, but there are alot of other statement that do too.
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This seems to be one of the last ones ... tho the last one for the world was -after Paul's "Thanks, Mo!"- John's "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition" ...
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This seems to be one of the last ones ... tho the last one for the world was -after Paul's "Thanks, Mo!"- John's "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition" ...


Is this on Let It Be? I know they said it but i never heard it...


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Is this on Let It Be? I know they said it but i never heard it...


Yes, on Let It Be ... after their last song (Get Back) on the rooftop!
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This seems to be one of the last ones ... tho the last one for the world was -after Paul's "Thanks, Mo!"- John's "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition" ...



Of course, it's a remark and reminiscing to the famous Decca audition where the group - failed...
What a great comment! Typical John!
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Of course, it's a remark and reminiscing to the famous Decca audition where the group - failed...
What a great comment! Typical John!

And I like them both ("The love you make ... " and "I'd like to say thank you ...") ... John's humour vs Paul's seriousNess!

P.S. I forgot Paul's Her Majesty!
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Yeah sure, but there are alot of other statement that do too.


Of course there is. What one message would rap up everything that was The Beatles though? I think they done well with that line. I can imagine a few sad thoughts around Abbey Rd when that was playing back through the monitors. It's a good epitaph.


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"The love you take is equal to the love you make," Amazing set of lyrics. But, like Kaleidoscope_Eyes said, once you start to think about it's meaning, it's really quite confusing.


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You get back what you put in outta life. They gave their all and got loads back.


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abbey road was recorded after let it be so the love you take would be later than the let it be remark i believe....


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"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"

Sounds nice, but doesn't make any sense to me.


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I'll have another bash. If you love someone really really really LOVE someone, the love you make to that person (emotionally and physically  ) is big. So when you break that love (take it away) the hurt will be big as well (equivalent to the love you make). Do i make sense?

Ps. I am listening to I am the Walrus.. so it might effect me


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"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"

Sounds nice, but doesn't make any sense to me.


For the world, their last remark was the Let It Be one ... and maybe more meaningful ... being a joke and all that  
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*sings*"And in the end.... the love you take.... is equal to the love.... you make! Aa-haaaaa..."
Sorry, got carried away  

But seriously, I really like this line. And I agree with Kaleidoscope_Eyes and Tara_the_beatle_freak - it does make one think. The only thing that bothers me slightly is the "love you take" bit. For me it's more about receiving love, rather than taking it. But that's just probably me being fussy with words.  

I know it sounds weird, but for me this lyric has an almost equation-like feel to it. Sort of like these laws of physics, "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction", etc. And like these laws, it's short, but it encompasses a lot and explains many things...
I think this lyric sums up very aptly what the Beatles were about, and what love is about.
The love that you give will come back to you. And the Beatles gave out so much love through their songs and actions, and "got loads back", as An Apple Beatle said. And they're still "getting it back", because their story and their songs are still here, and people are still feeling this love that they gave...
Which is really awsome  

PS: Hope that made sense... and sorry if it sounded mushy  




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[...]And like these laws, it's short, but it encompasses a lot and explains many things... [...]


Big truth ... usualley short sintences explan many things   (take a look at religions) ...
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Love is about the love for everything in life...To really experience and appreciate love, you have to be able to give it or you have no true measure of recieving it.
Quite simply put, the next best way of describing it is 'Karma.'


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hah the other day I watched the film 'Happy Feet' because my little brother wanted to - that weird penguin film that was in the cinemas a few weeks ago.

Anyway, its just a random animation about a dancing penguin- I really didn't want to watch it but had to. And the film started with some weird version of 'golden slumbers' playing which was weird, and then the end of the film had a weird version of 'the end' playing and the penguin says the lyrics 'and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make' directly to the camera- and it made a massive deal over that being like the moral of the story and I was like 'BEEEAAATLLLLEEEEEEES!!' because I'm (not) cool.

I didn't really see how those lyrics had anything to do with the story whatsoever. But it showed that people find relevance in that lyric today. I guess you could interpret it in many ways- definately one that gets you thinking. It must be important though- for a modern film to make it the point of the film

sorry I'm being long and rambling as usual





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I think "the love you take is equal to the love you make" is the
meaning of life. maybe the beatles gave us the meaning of life.
without beatles, there would be no meaning to life... right?



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Quoted from Andy Smith
I think "the love you take is equal to the love you make" is the
meaning of life. maybe the beatles gave us the meaning of life.
without beatles, there would be no meaning to life... right?


Its too subjective to say


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But seriously, I really like this line. And I agree with Kaleidoscope_Eyes and Tara_the_beatle_freak - it does make one think. The only thing that bothers me slightly is the "love you [i
take[/i]" bit. For me it's more about receiving love, rather than taking it. But that's just probably me being fussy with words.  



So are you saying that if I say"Hey I took a letter" is the same as "Hey  i recieved a letter"? How did u work that one out? I do see what you mean though, Octie. Bu I think Paulie was warning John. He was saying like "You gave lotsa love to this group, and now you are taking it lots of it away"? Perhaps it has a doble meaning...  


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[...]Bu I think Paulie was warning John. He was saying like "You gave lotsa love to this group, and now you are taking it lots of it away"? Perhaps it has a doble meaning...  

Interesting ... like an advise/answer to some lines of Come Together, for example? ...

... I think Paul joked at John a little when he "lent him a hand" with the lyrics of Sun King ... Sun King was recorded at the same time, more or less ... but the lyrics to The End were added (the first takes hadn't got any lyrics) shortly after Come Together was finnished  ... did Paul change his mind a bit then? ...

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yes well... disregard my post. Imagine I didnt say nothing


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yes well... disregard my post. Imagine I didnt say nothing


Done!!! ... another s-ho(r)t discussion aborted!
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So are you saying that if I say"Hey I took a letter" is the same as "Hey  i recieved a letter"? How did u work that one out? I do see what you mean though, Octie. Bu I think Paulie was warning John. He was saying like "You gave lotsa love to this group, and now you are taking it lots of it away"? Perhaps it has a doble meaning...  



Ah, but you have misunderstood me, Kaleidoscope_Eyes... I actually meant that receive isn't the same as take, and that I think receive is more appropriate... ah well, doesn't matter  



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It's all about give & take.


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Quoted from An Apple Beatle
It's all about give & take.

What have you got in mind?  
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What have you got in mind?  


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