Lyrics for A Day in the Life as interpreted by Ice

A Day in the Life Lyrics
I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights have changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on.

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream.

I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on
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"A Day in the Life" as written by John Lennon, Paul Mccartney
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maxpower7489
01-08-2002

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it's good


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weezerific:cutlery
01-11-2002

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damn right. i remember reading somewhere that people thought paul was dead from the line "he blew his mind out in a car"...that was supposed to be the way he died...
i like the part in this song when paul sings ("woke up, got out of bed..") a good song to end sgt. pepper.

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0cool
01-12-2002

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I like that part too. It's just so catchy.

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song4julia
01-17-2002

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i'd have to say this is the best song on the Sgt. Pepper album. what is the deal with the ending though? i like it anyway.

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song4julia
01-21-2002

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Just one of many "clues" to Paul's death. I have a list of them if anyone is interested.

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Ferthuko
01-25-2002

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If the line, he blew his mind out in a car refers to the "Paul is Dead" hoax, how do you explain the line, "Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of Lords."? Although, I do believe the Beatles were behind the rumors, I don't think this one was intentially placed by them. Obviously Lennon was referring to someone in politics. Can anyone explain?

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Apeiron
01-31-2002

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Hey people, I'm pretty sure the line you are mentioning refers to a Lennon's friend. By now I forgot his hame, but I'll be looking for more information about that and as soon as I get it, I'll repass it for you. (www.whiplash.com.br it's a Brazilian rock site, in Portuguese of course).

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wriggi
02-09-2002

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The person he is refering to was a plotition that died in a car crash, i'm not sure how they knew him but i've read about it somewhere before! Great song init

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Iron Chef Canadian
03-14-2002

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This is how it was explained to me...
The politician was, indeed, a member of the House of Lords. John knew him because of his habit of hanging around backstage at many of the British concerts that took place at that time; as such, said politician was well known to all of the rockers of the day. I believe his widow went on to marry a Rolling Stone.

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jabbadatut
03-15-2002

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The song refers to Tara Browne, a partygoer in his day, deemed a "socialite" by The Pretty Things in the title of the song "Death of a Socialite," dedicated to Tara. He was the son of Lord Oranmore and Browne, thus had he lived to see the age of twenty-one, he would have inherited his father's estate engrossed by the Guiness beer company. I think this is what the House of Lords line refers to. John was not very close to Tara, though they surely had met. Paul, on the other hand, was a friend of Tara's. Another cog in the Paul Is Dead controversy is the scar Paul got on his lip after wrecking a motorcycle while joyriding with Tara. In the early morning hours of December 18, 1966, with his girlfriend Suki Poitier in the passenger seat, he sped through a red light in Redcliffe Square, swerved to miss an oncoming VW Bug, and slammed into a parked van, killing Tara. Yet, Suki walked away hardly scratched. In January, the article about Tara's death was run in the _Daily Mail_ and John put it in the song. Suki, by the way, dated many rockstars including Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards.

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jabbadatut
03-15-2002

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By the way, I wish I get ahold of the analysis I once wrote on this song for my senior english class in high school. I wrote four pages in an hour-and-a-half, and at the time, I remember thinking it was the best thing I had ever written. maybe i'll try to tackle it again some day just for the hell of it. in my opinion, this is the greatest beatles song, as it is a perfect pairing of the writing styles of John and Paul, attributed as one of the many "Lennon/McCartney" songs.

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butterfingersbeck
03-18-2002

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"I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war"

John was acting in a movie "How I Won The War" at the time the song was written.

"Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire"

Another Daily Mail article, about a politician commenting on the state of repair of Blackburn's roads - yes, they were potholes! Lennon made the phrase surreal by treating the holes as objects that could "fill the Albert Hall" (London's Royal Albert Hall, a famous Victorian concert venue).

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pkjun
05-13-2002

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During the end loop...can anyone fully tell me what it says? I understand "Never Could Be Any Other Way" and something like "Could be done", and something I can't understand at all.

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dejan
05-14-2002

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great song


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glamorous*sunrise
05-17-2002

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i love how in the anthology version, paul says "oh shit" during his part. it's so cute. as for the end loop i dunno what they're saying. it kind of freaks me out so i never listen to it... but there was a rumor that the high-pitched sound at the beginning of the loop was a dog whistle. just a rumor though i think.

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jimmyfoth
05-23-2002

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the high pitch, was put in as tease to annoy ur dog! and the "talking" is complete random jibbersh, that had been edited into even more jibberish!

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wishiwasemo
06-06-2002

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i had heard that this song was part of the paul is dead hoax. the way i heard it was that he was staring at a meter maid while driving and crashed thus the lines "he didn't notice that the lights had changed". some of the lines in this song wouldn't relate to the theory at all though...

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fuzz174
06-09-2002

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i personally think that some nut made up the "paul is dead" hoax and the beatles thought it was funni and just went along with it...

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IanoDublin
06-09-2002

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Paul McCartney never died.

The high pitched sound was put there deliberately by John Lennon "specifically to annoy your dog" (dogs hear high pitched sounds more acutely than we do). The weird sound are conversation broken up into pieces and put back together randomly.

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cultpriestess
06-09-2002

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To clear up the "Paul is Dead Hoax." It has nothing to do with the lines of this song. Rather it has to do with the noise created by tape loops at the end of the song. They were experimenting in the studio (at this time the beatles were winding down/stopped touring and became STRICTLY a studio band) and were using multitracking and different studio techniques to produce sound (hence why the Beatles are known to be geniuses and composers rather than simply pop icons). Anyways -- when played backwards- the sounds at the end were thought to say "Paul is Dead"-- a DJ accidently discovered this-- the Beatles ran with the idea- to create mystic prolly and then included other hoax reference3s in the album "Abbey Road" (see the cover-- Paul has no shoes-- and the Bug lisense plate is significant. Though the no shoes were an snimal rights p[rotest ppl interpreted it to be how ppl are buried-- a reference to burial.

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toadtws
06-10-2002

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Something I learned in my Beatles class: The gibberish at the end of the CD version was actually on the run-out groove on the LP version. So it would keep going forever, until you lifted the needle.

I always though it faded out, because that's how they did it on the CD.

Also, apparently, the dog whistle is harder to hear on the LP. Something about the way CDs sample caused it to be easier for us to hear. Annoying. :-)

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OzzyGurly
07-08-2002

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I like this song... Didn't the "he didn't notice that the lights had changed" have something to do with the "Paul is Dead hoax" or whatever?

Whether it does or not, I still like the song.

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spinningmisfit
07-09-2002

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why is everyone here so in love with paul? john was clearly a better song writer and a better singer... seeing how most of pauls songs have to deal with love and john's go in another, more abstract, direction.

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Lolly
08-05-2002

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I agree with you spinningmisfit. Yes paul is a great song writer but what about John? He wrote this song 2! Im a big beatles fan but i do find John the strongest, most compelling and inovetive member of the group. Pauls lyrics a good up to a certain extent but i find johns make you think more about what is trying to be put across. Its pure poetry.

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Cherub Rock
08-19-2002

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Paul's my favourite Beatle for some reason, I know his earlier lyrics are often about love and are pretty cliched. But his later ones were experimental too, it's just that John was more innovative and went along more psychedelic routes. However, most of the *really* famous Beatles songs are by Paul (Yesterday, Hey Jude). Both John and Paul are important to the Beatles though

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