The Beatles – I Want You (She's So Heavy)

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  General Comment:I always thought that the noise at the end sounded like wind... and this repetitive guitar riff... I don't know, but when I close my eyes and just listen to it, I see a giant stairway that goes up into the sky. And the higher you are, the more intense the wind gets. And suddenly it cuts. Of course you have to take this metaphorically, like some climax of heavy feelings. And then paradoxically 'heavy' sounds almost like 'heaven'. Lennon said that it was about Yoko and that "when you're drowning, you don't say, 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.' You just scream." And still to me it sounds more like an ascend than drowning. Maybe an ascend in the dept of emotions...

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  General Comment:It could be about alot of things, but it is NOT about the Vietnam War. That silly Across the Universe movie was to the Beatles like JFK the movie was to the JFK assasination--just revisionist history, BS. If it was about the war, why wouldn't it have been more obvious. John didn't disguise his opposition to that war, why would he do it in song? It is probably about heroin, or maybe Yoko, and how his love for her was both a great thing in his life, and yet also a huge burden, because he knew their relationship was tearing the band apart. I want you, yet you are so heavy, you are such a burden--you are driving me mad.

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    nope, this song was about John's love of Yoko Ono.

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  General Comment:Heroin. I want you refers to his needing his fix, and "she's so heavy" refers to the eurphoria experienced by being high. Really two songs in one. The trippy instrumental part is the buzz, and it keeps growing until it just dies--it ends--he has an O.D. No song has a more sudden ending than that one. And then "Here comes the sun" proves to be a sweet follow up. Just brilliant. By far their finest album. George Martin said it is a very happy album. It is impossible to listen to it at a low volume--you need to crank it up to ten!

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    i agree to me it sounds like it's about heroin. but i think the whole song is about wanting it, or maybe the struggle to get off it? the repetitive lyrics make me it sound like thats all thats on his mind, the heavy reference could be how bad it's got a hold of him or something like that. makes me think of this addict i dated she would loose her mind. great tune though and i agree 10 is the only way to listen to this song

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  General Comment:This is by far the greatest most simplistic love song EVER.
  
  god I love how it starts and flows, and such little lyrics to carry it around, but you don't even think about that while listening to it, I just have this horrible urge to just rock my head back in forth in the best swaying possible.
  
  It's so perfect sounding, It's really shocking. It's the best short song that really is a love song and yet it has been analyzed over things like drugs? it makes sense I guess.
  
  This song.. man this song.
  
  It's so heavy.

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  General Comment:I love the end of this song

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  General Comment:i think it has to do with john wanting paul sexually, he wants him so bad, but he cant since all the women hate fags, thats why the "shes so heavy" part , but thats just what i think i duno bout u

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  Song Meaning:I thought the song was about Ringo's addiction to ciggs...

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  General Comment:The only good Beatles song... (besides "Wild Honey Pie" of course).

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  General Comment:its about s-e-x

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  General Comment:If you've seen the film "Let it Be" you can see that John and Yoko were both on heroin during these sessions. Side one of Abbey Road has contibutions from all the other 3 Beatles. Hell, even Ringo has his own song in it. Only the final song "I want you" is John's, and it keeps repeating the same sentence over and over again. This is his confession that he cannot think of anything else but the drug, while the band is secondary.

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    The first song on the album, Come Together, is John's.

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    IT is not about heroin, it's about his love for Yoko Ono. Replace heroin with Yoko Ono and you get the same thing, he's saying that his love is complicated.. but also driven by lust. The last part is his lust building up til he satisfies it. And yes, it could be a metaphor, but I don't think so.

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