So they, both, had to lit the fire that was never lit because of too much wine and dope.
I don’t think you need to look for a solid narrative as much as a montage of experience, image and idea–as well as stream of consciousness. Go ahead and listen to it on the drum track, it’s definitely there.The Beatles’ song was about an extra-marital relationship Lennon was having at the time. I read in a book on John that he once spoke about lying in bed with his mom as a young teen and “wondering what to do next”The first comment about Sonny is found in the Philip Norman book “John Lennon – The Life.” Sonny is actually Sonny Freeman, the wife of Robert Freeman, photographer of the Beatles during the early years (including the “Rubber Soul” album cover). Patton. Don’t you see the play on words? Contributing the middle presumably meant both words and melody? '” After all the song is acknowledged to be about an affair – not about a tease. (Brit.) The Norwegian Wood, refers to the “decoration” of the hotel room in which the ” meeting” was arranged. Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary. I think the 1980 comment is a result of his poor memory or perhaps wanting to claim more credit for one of his songs he actually felt good about. The Beatles didn’t meet BB in France in 1964. At almost the same time, he obtained the permission of the mayor, his direct superior, to take his wife and two childres (Gisela and our Sonny) to Berlin, where he thought they’d be safer. I think Paul’s claim of such a significant contribution is apocryphal.That is what I have always thoughtThis song is about John’s affairs, we know that. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the whole congregation, just as the leaders had spoken to them. This was the Beatles firing on all cylinders. Learn more. I have always assumed that John didn’t want his wife to know about his affair, so he made up a cover that he slept in the bath, and that he lit a fire… masturbated.I think you are reading too much into this. She was known to speak of herself as “Norwegian.”Here’s another one where the extent of Paul’s contribution to a Lennon-identified song is hard to pin down(despite Paul’s claim that there were only two they disagreed on, “In My Life” and “Eleanor Rigby”). In case this is anything other than wild conjecture (the very thing you seem to criticise others for), what’s your source?When he says he “once had a girl” we know what that means. Posted by Pdianek on December 04, 2003. Her father Dr. Wolfgang Spielhagen became the deputy mayor of Breslau – now the Polish city of Wroclaw – in 1942. The next morning, he wakes up alone, frustrated himself, as a result of cockblocking her, wanting to fight being a kept man, and by her superficialness. Wink, wink. Paul say’s it was his suggestion to John to burn the place down because the subject’s advances were rejected. In other words, John, ‘Knowing She Would’, enjoyed these types of no-effort liaisons.
Definition of wood in the Idioms Dictionary. It gives me a greater appreciation of my very first album, a Christmas present from my brother Dean when I was a very little girl. I guess Crit was figuratively putting the wood to Gov. You’re funny.I think you’re right about a joint being lit up.1. Famous sitar work by George Harrison.Incredible. And the dark humor fire at the end shows that at least some of it is fiction.Sounds like something John would do, knowing his love and mastery of wordplay. 1. This treatment simply paints on over the wood and is simple to use. John loved double meanings like Please ,Please Me, big teaser, Ticket to Ride etc. Everyone who smoked for a while knows how well the lyrics fit that. Can anyone help? ‘Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)’ demonstrated the continuing influence of Bob Dylan upon The Beatles’ music. The sitar was manually double-tracked.Maybe John, in 1980, psychologically, simply wanted to take full responsibility for being unfaithful?Go back and read the line “under the influence of Bob Dylan”. One of his best off Rubber Soul one of the greatest albums of all time. His friend Pete Shotton later suggested that the woman in question was a journalist – possibly Maureen Cleave, a close friend to Lennon.I always thought the lady with which Lennon had an affair was Norwegian, and that the phrase was, uh, a bit more pedestrian than that. The band considered him an authority/paternal figure, and it’s totally unlikely that John would have had this conversation at all, let alone with Martin.“She once had me” – she played him, led him on and then backed out.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.