| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| A Day in the Life can be looked at as a criticism of our own society. In the song, three key events are depicted; the man who died in the car crash, the movie about the English winning the war, and the holes in Blackburn's roads. For each one, the lyrics displayed the public's reaction to each occurrence. After each piece of negative news (in this case the gruesome car crash and the holes), the people could not get enough of it. "A crowd of people stood and stared" at the horrifying car crash, and the attention to detail was so great on the story in Lancashire that every hole in the streets was recorded and then relayed to the world. These pieces of negative news which amassed great attention contrasted to the movie about winning the war (a positive event in history because this song was written by UK writers), which received little to no consideration. "A crowd of people turned away" from the movie, thus highlighting the public's boredom with good news. The message of this song is that the news has turned our society into a world of cynics. Our news outlets feature only the ills of our time, always leaving out any sort of favorable news. This is the reason why after every time in the song when it said "I read the news today", it was immediately accompanied by an "oh boy". When was the last time you read news about a policeman who saved a man's life? Or about a child who beat an illness and survived? Our news instead is dominated by current atrocities; our ugly government and state politics, corrupt police murdering innocents, hate crimes, etc. We all have societal cravings to see the worst in our world. But we have to remember that we can't just look at the dark; there must be times when we can shed light on the good in our world. | |
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