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Old 01-14-2005, 09:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default need a bit of clearin up here.

lennon's song 'how do u sleep at night' has really weird lyrics, obviously talkin about paul mccartney. wat do the lyrics mean?

here they are:

So sgt. pepper took you by
surprise
you better see right through that
mother's eyes
those freaks was right when they
said you was you was dead
the one mistake you made was
in your head
how do you sleep?
ah how do you sleep at night?
you live with straights who tell
you you was king
jum when your mamma tell
you anything
the only thing you done was
yesterday
and since you've gone it's just
another day
how do you sleep?
ah how do you sleep at night?
a pretty face may last a year
or two
but pretty soon they'll see
what you can do
the sound you make is muzak
to my ears
you must have learned
something all those years
how do you sleep?
ah how do you sleep at night?


fukn weird..
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Old 01-15-2005, 02:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
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the "fu*kin weird" part of the song is definitely about Paul McCartney
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Old 01-15-2005, 11:10 AM   #3 (permalink)
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http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=42608

a few interpretations...
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Old 10-28-2005, 10:55 PM   #4 (permalink)
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when it says
"the only thing you done was, yesterday"
is a refrence to the song yestreday
"those freaks was right when they said, you was dead"
is refrencing the Paul is dead conspiracy and all the death clues and whatnot
"a pretty face will last a , year or two"
is refrencing how paul was the "cute" beatle...but talentless
"you live with straights who tell you, you is king"
is saying that paul surrounds himself with people who tell him he was the best beatle as well as how he tells himself tha

could go on but...too lazy
i think john wrote this on impulse...it isnt a great song and later on he and paul make up...it was just a little hissy fit between the two of them
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Old 10-28-2005, 11:05 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I'll write no dispariging words about dead men, point is, if any living man wrote that I would lampoon them for being a bitch.
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