Lyrics for Blue Jay Way as interpreted by Ice

Blue Jay Way Lyrics
There's a fog upon L.A.
And my friends have lost their way
"We'll be over soon," they said
Now they've lost themselves instead.
Please don't be long, please don't you be very long
Please don't be long or I may be asleep
Well it only goes to show
And I told them where to go
Ask a policeman on the street
There's so many there to meet
Please don't be long, please don't you be very long
Please don't be long or I may be asleep
Now it's past my bed I know
And I'd really like to go
Soon it will be the break of day
Sitting here in Blue Jay Way
Please don't be long, please don't you be very long
Please don't be long or I may be asleep
Please don't be long, please don't you be very long
Please don't be long, please don't be long
Please don't you be very long
Please don't be long
Please don't be long
Please don't you be very long
Please don't be long
Don't be long, don't be long, don't be long
Don't be long, don't be long, don't be long

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jslatz
05-11-2002

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This song was written by George in BLUE JAY WAY, the name of a house (or road i can't remember) in L.A. which he was staying in at the time. The other Beatles were on their way to meet with him, but got lost on the way, and George was left waiting for some time. It was while waiting for them that the song was written

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venusinfurs
09-02-2002

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...if i recall corectly BJW was a hotel but nevertheless...this song is trippy as hell but you have to admit its watered down and was a pathetic attempt at capturing the listener's mind...leave george to the folk pop shit...john is as psychedelic as they come...wdc

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fabi_jara
09-04-2002

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Personally I believe that Gorge BJW was a very cool and sensual song. I don't believe venusinfurs really knows about music!

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strawberry_fields
03-19-2003

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This song always gives me a sort of eerie feeling whenever I hear it. I don't think it's one of George's better songs

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sunstormed
05-19-2004

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personally i like this song, the only thing is it kind of makes me think about suicide and wanting someone to stop him, but that's probably just me being odd

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classicrockgirl
06-25-2004

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i think this song is really goodl i remember reading that they slowed it down and did some other stuff to make it sound ghosty and scary after they recorded it. i think it's good that way. venusinfurs is just retarded. how is george "pop?" i don't think any of george's songs are pop. he was the first person to use the sitar or something. if they are pop, he INVENTED it and it went downhill after the beatles.

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Philadelphia Eagles
09-18-2004

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Blue Jay Way is the name of a street in LA. Harrison was waiting for his friend Derek Taylor in LA when he came up with the song.

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sebastn7
10-07-2004

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I like this song a lot...Its trippy and chill..It sounds like George is stoned, waiting around 5 or 6 o'clock for his friends to pick him up...It feels like a long time not only because he is high and time seems to go a lot slower, but also cos his friends have already called him and said they were lost and stoned themselves...His friends could ask a policeman on the street, but if I were high, lost, and driving around, a policeman would be the last person I would ask.....Man im high =)~

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guitar_god1986
12-30-2004

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Yeah first time I heard it I got chills. It's really trippy. Of course, a lot of the songs on MMT are trippy.

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ultraspamboy
01-02-2005

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I've noticed that at the end it sounds like it could be "Don't belong". It's contradictory with the lyrics sheet but I wonder if that relates to the song.

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Little Rachael
02-04-2005

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This is a great George song. When I hear it, I think of a little kid waiting for his older friends to come, but it's nearing his bedtime and he can't wait much longer. George was so cute.

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cronoyuha
02-13-2005

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When I think of this song I thnk of a street shrouded in blue mist. Sure enough in the move MMT, George is sitting singing this shrouded in blue mist. Very good song though, does give a good eerie feeling.

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Cerebrus
02-23-2005

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I've always thought that it there could be some word play going on "don't be long" "don't belong"

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coo2kachoo
03-30-2005

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it is like banana dew foggy brain slow slide ride

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brewdawg819
08-05-2005

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great song, very strange

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~Abaddon~
08-25-2005

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I imagine the others are right. this is strangely one of my favourite beatles' songs... but i remember the first tiem i really listened to the lyrics, i imagined some guy dying in an alley, after being shot, and hoping his friends would get there before he lost consciousness... nonetheless- fantastic tune

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plaincl0thesman
08-28-2005

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the first time i heard this song, i cried. no not really but it is a
f(beep)king cool song.

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Annexation
01-14-2006

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I don;t know about you all but the video for this song in the magical mystery tour movie freaks me the hell out.

Great song none the less. One of my favorites.

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heyjude55
05-27-2006

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just very trippy

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Aniland
10-15-2006

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Psychedelic

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empires
12-03-2006

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i don't know if any of you have explored the beatles on lsd but, the influence of the drug on their minds is very apparent. blue jay way in particular.

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msrmx350
12-31-2006

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The George Harrison track, "Blue Jay Way", may be heard as a eulogy to Paul (with the lyrics "please don't be long, please don't you be very long, please don't be long, or I may be asleep..."). Also, some have claimed that the song's repeated line "Please don't be long," when played backwards, reveals "He said "Get Me Out!" Paul is what is. Paul is Hare Krishna, it seems. Paulie is bloody." The song is actually about George waiting for Derek Taylor to help him move into his LA home on Blue Jay Way on a foggy day.

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awkward...
07-09-2007

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i like this song, also because its trippy & such. i always thought of it as hes waiting, drunk in the middle of the street, for his drunk friends to come pick him up before he falls asleep in the middle of the road. in the video for this song, there's a part at the vey end when hes sitting there, and the music sort of goes off on this wacky "brrRRRRrrr" sound and i can almost swear it looks like a car coming up behind him about to run him over.

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Bressane
07-14-2007

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A sense of non belonging is the atmosphere of this so gorgeous song... once I was lost in London and felt something like [whoah, have to tell ya God Shuffle has put that song on my iPod!]... like to be a strange in a stranger land. Don't you feel like that?

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bestkepsecret
09-10-2007

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yeah, I always felt there was double meaning. Be long versus belong was one obvious example. Not belonging, yeah... of George Harrison by himself one night in Los Angeles...
Another is "well be over soon, they said." I thought a double meaning might also be about the band being "over..."
the line referring to not just the friends of theirs coming over late (or whoever it was, the other band members) but about critics of the group or just this possibility of volatility and disbanding.
Now, that may not be true, but what is so trippy about a lot of the beatles songs, especially this one, is the use of pronouns: "they", and these repetitive lines and such. Yeah, the first time I listened to this song, I had a compilation going, I was playing it after their wonderful jam "flying" and this was a total downer song... until you actually get to know the lyrics and understand the song. I like this song, it's so cool how its Los Angeles and the famous house where the Beatles first did acid (or so legend goes?) and where the Red Hot Chili Peppers later recorded BSSM! right? yes, I think so.

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