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DaveRam
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What do you think was The Beatles  " Darkest Song " ???
The most mysterious or inaccessible or the one with the darkest humour ???


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Eleanor Rigby


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I think "Fixing A Hole " is a dark song . The cracks that ran through the door , to me are very sinister . It's as if something or someone is trying to penetrate Paul's world and do him harm . The silly people that run around and worry him could be the fans ? or maybe it's that drug crazed John knocking at his door with that mysterious women


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Quoted from DaveRam
What do you think was The Beatles  " Darkest Song " ???
The most mysterious or inaccessible or the one with the darkest humour ???


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Blue Jay Away sounds like a real bad trip.



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"Cry Baby Cry" or "She Said She Said:" John, naturally.
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Come Together

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" For No One "


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Under "inaccessible" and "humor" I'd include "What's The New Mary Jane?" as well. It sounds like it's a shot at somebody, but I've no idea who.
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blue jay way is by far the creepiest sounding not sure if it falls under dark with the lyrics but the music gives of that feel





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Run For Your Life



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Im not sure if could be considered dark, but I Want You(she's so heavy)'s intro and outro sound really dark and mysterious.


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"Helter Skelter"...............duh..............heavy metal Beatles on the dark side that Charlie Manson took tooo far.  And we "Beatlemaniacs" knew what the "term" was about..............."a slide"???






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Maxwells Silver Hammer is a dark song with dark humour  


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"Norwegian Wood," too, for its ending.
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maxwell, eleanor & revolution 9.
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I'd have to say Eleanor Rigby. So dark, and yet, so true.


You're so vain, you probably think this post is about you.
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There are sad songs: Eleanor Rigby, For No One, She's Leaving Home; and songs that appear to be dark, but are not: Blue Jay Way. So I was about to say that there are no real dark songs. And then I remembered:

HELP!


I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.
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I think  " Eleanor Rigby " is a dark song , lonelyness is a dark place to be BlueMeanie ?
Yes it's  sad but the imagery in the lyric is dark .
Poor Eleanor is not having a buddle of laughs , she's crippled by lonlyness , she's trapped in that dream .
I always think she's like one of the characters in a Dicken's novel , a witherd grotessque like Mrs Haversham in Great Expectations ?


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Happiness is a Warm Gun!!!!

Reading this post, i realize there are a lot of pretty dark songs...


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Quoted from HeatherBoo
Run For Your Life



This is the one I was going to say too!


I love John,
I love Paul,
And George and Ringo,
I love them all!

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Maxwells Silver Hammer is a dark song with dark humour  


Yup! It never was a song I would listen to.  But I have been trying to really listen to all the songs now and I have found that ones I had decided that I didn't care for before, I now like.  This is one of them.  And it is very sinister!



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"Eleanor Rigby"

"A Day In The Life"

"Because"

"Come Together"
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A Day In The Life, Run For Your Life, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Don't Pass Me By, and Maxwell's Silver Hammer.




  
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Blue Jay Way is pretty dark
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Come Together, Blue Jay Way or even Because


       Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt... Zap!                                                     My skin's soaked right through to the skin!
  
"The Beatles will exist without us"
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REVOLUTION #9

How did no one pick that?
That song scares the mess out of me, especially in the dark, late at night.
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"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind,
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"About a lucky man who made the grade"
"I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you."
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I don't' really think it's a song


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No.
but its dark and creepy.
good enough for me.


"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind,
Possessing and caressing me."
"About a lucky man who made the grade"
"I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you."
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Revolution 9...
*shivers*
I can't listen to that song.




  
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I heard it in the dark the first time and I just about freaked!


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The first time I heard this song was in the light and I ran for my life.




  
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I've read that Revolution 9 was "creepy" before I heard it, so when I did hear it, I was "prepared" and it didn't freak me out, just sort of gave me a question mark above my head  

I used to think A Day in the Life was quite dark. And Eleanor Rigby, in a sad, lonely sort of way.



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I was reading something George Martin said last week at some awards show , he was at in America .
And he said the string arrangement for " Eleanor Rigby " is based on the musical score to Hitchcocks  " Psycho"
Which is maybe why it doe's have that sinister feel ?


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"Run For Your Life" wins for me. A guy threatening to hunt down and kill his girlfriend just because he's jealous is pretty damn dark. It edges out "Norwegian Wood" for me because, in that, he only burns her house, as opposed to attacking her personally. Both such cheery songs.


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i would have to pick blue jay way. i like that song though



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Yah I'd have to agree. That song was a little out there the first time I heard it.
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"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind,
Possessing and caressing me."
"About a lucky man who made the grade"
"I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you."
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"What's The New Mary Jane?" sounds very creepy, specially with those weird echoing sounds.
Lyrically the darkest must be Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Eleanor Rigby or maybe Run For Your Life.
I wonder if Carnival of Light is creepy or just plain weird, but we'll have to wait until Paul decides to release it.
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It's interesting that there are so many songs from the 'dark side', as the Beatles are so often associated with 'up' stuff, and Paul always points to how the songs are 'all about love or peace', but actually there's a lot more going on there!
Can't really think of anything new to add for myself, but I would say that my kids won't let me play Yesterday or Eleanor Rigby in the car  -  "Don't play the sad song!" they say! and I haven't let them hear Maxwell yet  -  it's the audio equivalent of a video nasty, all dressed up in a jolly singalong!  They'd probably start singing it at school, and the teachers would pigeonhole them as mentally disturbed!

Just an after thought  -  I am the Walrus has a lot of unpleasant imagery, and John sings in quite a confrontational, 'I want to provoke a reaction from you' way, I think.
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Blue Jay Way and Revolution #9 both sounds like bad LSD or shroom trip.


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You Never Gave Me Your Money , seems a dark song to me ?


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i always thought that Tomorrow Never Knows was a creepy song, especially in the dark, trying to fall asleep at night....

does creepy count as dark? well, i also think Run For Your Life is dark, lyrically. *shudders*


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