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kiramdear wrote:

just_bassics wrote:"Anderson: "A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace ..."

Actually, I didn't think this made sense until I started acupuncture for back problems a few years ago. Now it makes perfect sense.

Glad your back is better, but those aren't Beatle lyrics (please note the topic)

Yes, I know, but they were already quoted in this thread.

I always admired Paul's ability to write a song about anything he observes, or John's abilty to write about the things that provoked him. Together it created one of the best songwriting teams ever, IMO. Too bad it couldn't have lasted longer. As far as Day Tripper is concerned, whatever he's actually singing, it's clear what he intends. So who is the real life inspiration for the song?

Here's what Wikipedia has to say:

"Under the pressure of needing a new single for the Christmas market,[1] Lennon wrote most of the lyrics and the famous guitar break, while McCartney helped with the verses. "Day-tripper" was a typical play on words by John: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of… you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?"[2] In the same interview he said, "That's mine. Including the lick, the guitar break and the whole bit."[2] In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, however, he used "Day Tripper" as one example of their collaboration, where one partner had the main idea but the other took up the cause and completed it.[3] For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.[4]
The lyric may be partly about McCartney's reluctance to experiment with LSD.[citation needed] (Lennon and Harrison had been using LSD since the spring of 1965, when a London dentist slipped it into their coffee after an evening meal.[5] In August, Lennon confessed that he "just ate it all the time.") On the face of it, however, the song is about a girl who leads the singer on. The line recorded as "she's a big teaser" was originally written as "she's a ***** teaser."[4] In this sense, it may equally be about the aloof heroine from "Norwegian Wood." In Many Years From Now, McCartney admitted that "Day Tripper" was about drugs."

My favorite Beatles lyric is

Relax,close your eyes and float downstream, it is not Dying, it is not dying

In reference to the yes lyric from "yours is no disgarce"

A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace and rearrange you LIVING to the solid mental grace

seem to make more sense I think? if you know what I mean!~!

tallpat1 wrote:My favorite Beatles lyric is

Relax,close your eyes and float downstream, it is not Dying, it is not dying

That would be "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream"

tennis_nick wrote:

tallpat1 wrote:My favorite Beatles lyric is

Relax,close your eyes and float downstream, it is not Dying, it is not dying

That would be "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream"

...and was not written by the Beatles. The words to 'Tomorrow Never Knows' are taken straight from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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