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On this page we've posted a few songs with *interesting* inspirations and such...On this page we provide pretty much everything you'd want to know about the songs...some you knew...some you probably didn't...and some you really didn't want to know...but now you do!
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Dear Prudence
Inspiration: The Prudence referred to in the song is Prudence Farrow, actress Mia Farrow's younger sister. The Beatles and the two sisters, along with several others, were together on a meditation trip to India under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, teacher of Transcendental Meditation, in 1968. Apparently Prudence spent all her time meditating and didn't come out often, and John wrote the song to get her to "come out to play". Quotes: JOHN: No one was to know that sooner or later she was to go completely berserk under the care of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. All the people around her were very worried about the girl because she was going insane. So we sang to her.
They selected me and George to try to bring her out because she would trust us. She went completely mental. If she'd been in the West they would have put her away. We got her out of the house. She'd been locked in for three weeks and wouldn't come out, trying to reach God quicker than anybody else. That was the competition in Maharishi's camp: who was going to get cosmic first. (What I didn't know was I was already cosmic.) RINGO: Prudence meditated and hibernated. We saw her twice in the two weeks I was there. Everyone would be banging on the door: 'Are you still alive?' PAUL: Mia Farrow was there, and her sister, Prudence. John wrote the song 'Dear Prudence' for her because she had a panic attack and couldn't come out of her chalet. Song Info: song: Dear Prudence
written by: Lennon/McCartney
lead vocal: John
available on: The White Album
Lyrics: Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence won't you come out and play
Dear Prudence open up your eyes
Dear Prudence see the sunny skies
The wind is low the birds will sing
that you are part of everything
Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?
Look around round
Look around round round
Look around
Dear Prudence let me see you smile
Dear Prudence like a little child
The clouds will be a daisy chain
So let me see you smile again
Dear Prudence won't you let me see you smile?
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Helter Skelter
Inspiration: The real inspiration for this song was that in England Helter Skelter is another term for a children's slide. Apparently though Charles Manson thought that The Beatles were sending him coded messages through their music and this song *inspired* his killing spree. Quotes: PAUL: ...I read...that Pete Townshend [lead guitarist of The Who] had said: 'We've just made the raunchiest, loudest, most ridiculous rock'n'roll record you've ever heard.' ...that got me going; just hearing him talk about it. So I said to the guys, 'I think we should do a song like that; something really wild.' And I wrote 'Helter Skelter'. Then it got over to America - the land of interpretive people...Charles Manson interpreted that 'Helter Skelter' was something to do with the four horsemen of the Apocalypse...he interpreted the whole thing - that we were the four horsemen, 'Helter Skelter' the song - and arrived at having to go out and kill everyone. JOHN: He's barmy, he's like any other Beatle fan who reads mysticism into it...I don't know, what's 'Helter Skelter' got to do with knifing somebody? Song Info: song: Helter Skelter written by: Lennon/McCartney
lead vocal: Paul
available on: The White Album & Anthology 3
lyrics:
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter.
Will you, won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter
Look out, cause here she comes.
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
And I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
And I get to the bottom and I see you again
Well do you, don't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter
Look out helter skelter
She's coming down fast
Yes she is
Yes she is.
[I got blisters on my fingers]
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Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
"John's lyric for this song derived almost entirely from a poster advertising a circus near Rochdale, Lancashire, in February 1843, which he had bought in a Sevenoaks antique shop on 31 January [1967], while there for the shooting of the 'Strawberry Fields Forever' promotional film."---The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn song: Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite written by: Lennon/McCartney
lead vocal: John
available on: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band & Anthology 2
lyrics: For the benefit of Mr. Kite
There will be a show tonight on trampoline
The Hendersons will all be there
Late of Pablo Fanques Fair-what a scene
Over men and horses hoops and garters
Lastly through a hogshead of real fire!
In this way Mr. K. will challenge the world!
The celebrated Mr. K.
Performs his feat on Saturday at Bishopsgate
The Hendersons will dance and sing
As Mr. Kite flys through the ring don't be late
Messrs. K and H. assure the public
Their production will be second to none
And of course Henry The Horse dances the waltz!
The band begins at ten to six
When Mr. K. performs his tricks without a sound
And Mr. H. will demonstrate
Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground
Having been some days in preparation
A splendid time is guaranteed for all
And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill.
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Getting Better
"I was walking with Paul McCartney on Primrose Hill one lovely spring day, and he was with Martha, his big English sheepdog. And we're walking around, and he was looking at the weather, and he said to me, 'It's getting better.' We walked a bit farther, and he said, 'It really is getting better. You've got to admit it's getting better.' And he started singing those two phrases and laughing. By the time we walked back to Paul's house, he'd worked up those few bars of the song." - Hunter Davies (author of the official Beatles biography), from The Beatles: From Yesterday to Today song: Getting Better written by: Lennon/McCartney lead vocal: Paul
available on: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
lyrics:
It's getting better all the time
I used to get mad at my school (well I can't complain)
The teachers who taught me weren't cool (well I can't complain)
You're holding me down, (ah) turning me round (ah)
Filling me up with your rules.
I've got to admit it's getting better (better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (better)
It's getting better since you've been mine.
Me used to be a angry young man
Me hiding me head in the sand
You gave me the word
I finally heard
I'm doing the best that I can.
I've got to admit it's getting better (better)
A little better all the time (it can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (better)
It's getting better since you've been mine.
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time (better better better)
It's getting better all the time (better better better)
I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved
Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene
And I'm doing the best that I can.
I admit it's getting better (better)
A little better all the time (it can't get more worse)
Yes I admit it's getting better (better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time (better better better)
It's getting better all the time (better better better)
Getting so much better all the time
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Good Morning Good Morning
"...John's 'Good Morning Good Morning', its title inspired by a British TV commercial for Kellogg's cornflakes." ---The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn song: Good Morning Good Morning written by: Lennon/McCartney
lead vocal: John
available on: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Anthology 2
lyrics:
Good morning, good morning
Good morning, good morning, good morning
Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in
Nothing to say but what a day how's your boy been
Nothing to do it's up to you
I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.
Good morning, good morning, good morning
Going to work don't want to go feeling low down
Heading for home you start to roam then you're in town
Everybody knows there's nothing doing
Everything is closed it's like a ruin
Everyone you see is half asleep
And you're on your own you're in the street
After a while you start to smile now you feel cool
Then you decide to take a walk by the old school
Nothing has changed it's still the same
I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.
Good morning, good morning, good morning
People running round it's five o'clock
Everywhere in town is getting dark
Everyone you see is full of life
It's time for tea and meet the wife
Somebody needs to know the time, glad that I'm here
Watching the skirts you start to flirt now you're in gear
Go to a show you hope she goes
I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
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Good Night
"'Good Night' was a children's lullaby, pure and simple, written for [John's] five-year-young son Julian..."---The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn
song: Good Night
written by: Lennon/McCartney
lead vocal: Ringo
available on: The White Album; Anthology 3
lyrics:
Now it's time to say good night
Good night Sleep tight
Now the sun turns out his light
Good night Sleep tight
Dream sweet dreams for me
Dream sweet dreams for you.
Close your eyes and I'll close mine
Good night Sleep tight
Now the moon begins to shine
Good night Sleep tight
Dream sweet dreams for me
Dream sweet dreams for you.
Close your eyes and I'll close mine
Good night Sleep tight
Now the sun turns out his light
Good night Sleep tight
Dream sweet dreams for me
Dream sweet dreams for you.
Good night Good night Everybody
Everybody everywhere
Good night.
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Got To Get You Into My Life
"It was a song about pot, actually." - Paul (The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles)
song: Got To get You Into My Life
writen by: Lennon/McCartney
lead vocal: Paul
available on: Revolver; Anthology 2
lyrics:
I was alone, I took a ride
I didn't know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there
Ooh, then I suddenly see you
Ooh, did I tell you I need you
Every single day of my life
You didn't run, you didn't lie
You knew I wanted just to hold you
And had you gone you knew in time we'd meet again
For I had told you
Ooh, you were meant to be near me
Ooh, and I want you hear me
Say we'll be together every day
Got to get you into my life
What can I do, what can I be
When I'm with you I want to stay there
If I'm true I'll never leave
And if I do I know the way there
Ooh, then I suddenly see you
Ooh, did I tell you I need you
Every single day of my life
Got to get you into my life
Got to get you into my life
I was alone, I took a ride,
I didn't know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there
Then suddenly I see you
Did I tell you I need you |
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