Lyrics for Eleanor Rigby as interpreted by Ice

Eleanor Rigby Lyrics
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been,
Lives in a dream.
Waits at the window, wearing a face she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for?
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon that no-one will hear,
No-one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there,
What does he care?
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name.
Nobody came.
Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave.
No-one was saved.
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

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weezerific:cutlery
01-11-2002

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i think, very simply, this is a song about having no one..like the chorus states "all the lonely people, where do they all come from?" the strings in this song just make it more beautiful and sad.

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song4julia
01-21-2002

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this song was written after they saw a tombstone with her name on it. it is a great song even though it has a sad tone to it.

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jabbadatut
03-15-2002

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it was not written after they was a tombstone with her name on it... actually, technically, that's not true, but the tombstone was not the inspiration. most fanatics agree that this is largely a paul song, though paul's and john's stories differ about who wrote most of the song. paul remembers taking the name eleanor from an actress he worked with (on Help!, I believe). and, mckenzie was an alteration of the original name "Father McCartney." however, it was pointed out to paul years later that in a cemetery where he and john used to get drunk there is both a Rigby tombstone (not Eleanor Rigby's, but it does mention an Eleanor Rigby on it, I believe) and a McKenzie tombstone (John McKenzie if I'm not mistaken). so, it is possible that the names may have caught paul's fancy by way of subconscious recollection from his youth.

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vandalized
05-23-2002

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And Godhead covered this one. Both are good.

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retsyn
05-28-2002

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great song, sad tone which captures the feeling of being alone. another beatle classic

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RearChud37
06-02-2002

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This song is so clever in the way that it has an upbeat tune, but a very sorrowfull meaning behind it. I think this song is trying to tell us that the whole world is alone, and the fact that we cant do anything to stop it amused paul.

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IanoDublin
06-09-2002

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These lyrics are among the best of all time.

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buffyfreak13
06-16-2002

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I love this song,the string insrtuments,the melancholy of the song,and the lyrics.I think the obvious,it was about"all the lonely people."Not having somebody to talk to,to be w/.It is sad,but the best.

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tumbln4dice
06-16-2002

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if you cannot be with yourself, how could you expect to be with anyone else? i absolutely love this song!

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Dareka
07-12-2002

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Amazing song. Very sad, but its a definite classic.

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ladymadonna123
08-23-2002

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I THINK ITS SAFE TO SAY ALTHOUGH "HEY JUDE" IS MY FAVORITE SONG,THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEATLES BEST,ITS ABSOLUTE GENIUS.RIGBY WAS TAKEN FROM A TOMBSTONE.THIS SONG IS SELF-EXPLAINITORY ITS ABOUT BEING LONELY-BUT THE KIND WERE YOU GO OUT AND FIND A CAMPANION-THE LONELINESS WHERE YOU DIG YOUR SELF A DIP HOLE THAT YOU CANT GET OUT OF LONELINESS IS NOT ONLY A APPARENT AND NOT HAVING ANYONE-ITS ALSO A STATE OF BEING AND A FEELING.

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ladymadonna123
08-23-2002

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I MEANT TO SAY-"...NOT THE KIND WHERE YOU GO OUT AND FIND A CAMPANION..." AND I ALSO MEANT DEEP INSTEAD OF DIP.

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3ssence
09-16-2002

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Though it is one of my favorite songs I always feel a bit uncomfortable hearing it.
It always seemed to me as if the lines "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" implicate on the listeners and accuse them of being a part of a cold and inhumane society.


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ookala
09-27-2002

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i work at this place where i call people up and survey them, and this old lady that was willing to take it, and in the middle of the survey we just started talking, and she was talking about how her husband died, and she just started crying, and i thought... i wonder if i'm the only one she has talked to in a while.. and it made me sad that i can't help all the lonely people.. and this song reminds me of that

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Nero
10-13-2002

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personally, it relates to me because i am alone and i believe i'll die alone like father mckenzie and eleanor rigby did.

i've read that originally it was going to be father mccartney, but they decided against it with good reason and decided to scan through the telephone book and decided mckenzie had a good ring to it.
also i've read that john had no part in writing the song.

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DreamsofInsomnia
10-16-2002

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This song is tied for my favorite of all Beatles songs with Revolution 9. This song can relate to me in so many ways, it just displays how the true lonliness of the world from my point of view. Lonliness grows on someone until it is the person

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Bobo192
03-07-2003

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In the Mid-eighties the name Eleanor Rigby was discovered on a gravestone at St Peter's church, Woolton, where John had first met Paul. The gravestone reads...

"..also Doris, W. Daughter of F + E Rigby died Dec. 24th 1927, aged 2 years & 3 months

Also Eleanor Rigby the beloved wife of Thomas Woods and granddaughter of the above died 10th Oct. 1939, aged 44 years, ASLEEP

Also Frances, Daughter of the above, died 2nd November 1949 aged 71 years."

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mourningthebestofme
04-21-2003

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this is the best song of all time. in every way. and 3ssence, i think you're right. maybe not an accusation, but it definitely says something about the way many of us are. and i can definitely relate to it.

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mysweetvandal
04-30-2003

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i think this song is about, you know how you walk down the street and see thousands of faces that you don't know or recognize and don't even think twice about? well i think this song is about how there are these people (eleanor rigby and father mckenzie) and these sad things happen to them and no one knows them or cares so they don't really matter to anyone. it's sad that people walk through life not really caring about others. they get too involved in what's happening in their lives with work and whatnot and they forget that there are other people out their dealing with problems every day.

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zeus83
05-05-2003

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ok dont take this as blasphemy or anything like this
i am a huge beatles fan-
to me-this song was always about a secret love affair between a priest and a nun that was kept secret-
if you look at the lyrics sans choruses as a poem it begns to make sense
....WHO IS IT FOR?---FATHER McKENZIE...
obviously as the father walks away from the grave he is leaving a secret behind- wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave.
No-one was saved.
however that is just my interpretation-
i guess thats what makes for great songs-
our interpretations of them

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eddievanhillbilly
05-08-2003

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very interesting zeus83

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Badfish2
06-11-2003

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i agree with RearChud37, i must say that this is such a beautiful song, i just like it.. enough said

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i_rok_your_soks
06-26-2003

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zeus83...wow that is so interesting and insightful i never thought of it like that

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diamondgeezer14k
06-27-2003

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This is one beatles song that is completely inocent, there is no real hidden meaning like there is in a lot of their songs. This is one reason why i really love the beatles, they made you think unlike groups such as The Greatful Dead who just come on and with lyrics such as, "driving that train, high on cocaine". The beatles weren't so open with certain parts of their lives which they might have not been too proud of (their massive drug abuse), so they used a lot more hidden messages to get their point across. The beatles truly are one of the most tallented bands of all time. This song is simply about being lonely, and haveing no one to talk to, and no one to care for. A very sad song, but truthful and totally rad to listen too, it makes you think and appriciate all the people that i have in my life.

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kt447
05-18-2004

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im doing this song as a project and i realise the meaning i agree with so many of you that this song is a bout being alkone so if anybody has anythign i should say in my project let me know

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