The Beatles – She Said She Said

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She said
I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad
And she's making me feel like I've never been born

I said
Who put all those things in your hair
Things that make me feel like I'm sad
And you're making me feel like I've never been born


She said you don't understand what I said
I said no no no you're wrong
When I was a boy, everything was right
Everything was right

I said
Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born

She said you don't understand what I said
I said no no no you're wrong
When I was a boy, everything was right
Everything was right

I said
Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born

She said
I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad
I know what it is to be sad

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Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by saltcity, JohnnyLurg, OwenHu99

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"She Said She Said" as written by John Winston Lennon, Paul James Mccartney

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    General Comment:the lyrics in verse two are off. it should be head, not hair, and mad, not sad.

    far as meaning goes...its just plainly about how it sucks to have to grow up and deal with the fucked up thinking style of some people, when we just want to be happy, and know we had it at one time...

    imho :)
    Flag saltcityon April 04, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:the lyrics are really cool. and not to mention that John Lennons voice is just pure amazingness!
    Flag thespacemanliveson June 30, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:John wrote it in Kenwood with a little help from George Harrison. This song is pop perfection and one of the
    best ever.
    Flag SoundgardeNirvanaon November 04, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"I like this one. I wrote it about an acid trip I was on in Los Angeles. It was only the second trip we'd had. We took it because we'd started hearing things about it and we wanted to know what it was all about.Peter Fonda came over to us and started saying things like 'I know whats its like to be dead,man' and we didn't really wanna know, but he kept going on and on...Anyways that's where that song came from and it's a nice song, too"
    -John

    The Black keys do a nice cover of this song aswell.
    Flag Jenna_Bennaon May 31, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:The revolving guitar line evokes Johns confused schizophrenic mind state in the mid sixties where thoughts would go round and round in his head. John was already fairly troubled at the begining of the sixties. Add to this worldwide fame and LSD and you have a dangerous concoction. This song is confused, stuttering and repetetive. John is trying to express his feelings of inadequacy "your making me feel like i've never been born" and desires the comfort of childhood "when i was a boy everything was right". These feelings would be more clearly expressed on Strawberry Fields. On She Said She Said these feelings are just beginning to rise to the surface in John and are to intense for him to express coherently.
    Flag LindaRonstadton March 07, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:They're right about the Peter Fonda thing.. speaking of peters( that sounds wrong) did you all know John was really close to peter boyle and he (boyle) was a big protester? that's awesome it was in "lennon Revealed'
    Flag LennonGirl84on November 28, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Peter Fonda was recently interviewed on "Here & Now" with Robin Young(produced by WBUR, here-now.org). He was being interviewed because of the movie "3:10 to Yuma". Peter stated that George Harrison was having a bad trip & he was trying to calm George down by telling George that he knew what it was like to be dead. So at least I believe the song is in part due to Peter Fonda.

    Wikipedia states that there are early demos with the lyrics stating "He said", instead of "She said". Also it states that John Lennon was upset with what Peter was saying and stated "You're making me feel like I've never been born". Eventually John had Peter kicked out.
    Flag Klinkyon September 05, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I love the loopy guitar in the song..plus the drums, the timing, the bass, the harmonies and of course the coda.. revolver has great codas.
    Flag Jedi_Chrison March 17, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I love the timing of this song and the deliberate choice of the not obvious words.. it makes it really interesting and trippy.
    Flag -wishyouwerehere-on May 22, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:oh yes; the Peter Fonda bit fits everything I've heard about this songs origins, of course mixed in with what was going in John's mind at that time.
    Flag BazBearon March 10, 2006   Link

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