Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Wednesday morning at five o'clock
As the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside, she is free
She(we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years (bye bye)
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
"Daddy, our baby's gone.
"Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?"
She (we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years
Friday morning, at nine o'clock
She is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the Motortrade
She (what did we do that was wrong)
Is Having (we didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside, that was always denied, for so many years
She's leaving home, bye, bye
As the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside, she is free
She(we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years (bye bye)
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
"Daddy, our baby's gone.
"Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?"
She (we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years
Friday morning, at nine o'clock
She is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the Motortrade
She (what did we do that was wrong)
Is Having (we didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside, that was always denied, for so many years
She's leaving home, bye, bye
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@Stiffpilchard<br /> Right on target! Thanks for your take on this.
@Piffstilchard What makes you think she’s an adult? If she were there would be no surprise in her leaving home. I see her as about 15- she’s running away
The Beatles, have been such a inspiration the everyone. They started as a young group, and have touched countless souls since they've been together. 'She's Leaving Home' is a song about, a girl who has everything she wants/needs except Love, and Affection... She feels neglected and that no one loves her, so she decides the best option is to leave, and try to make it on her own. This is a very touching song, this makes you understand what you happens to the people who love you when you make rash decisions. What a inspirational, deep, and beautiful Masterpiece, Paul and John really touch countless people, and inspire everyone. They have helped the world understand Love for each other. The Beatles are the best artist to ever step on this earth. <3
@Sartre024 This touching, emotive song is about a young woman going to get an abortion in the late 60s.
Paul wrote this song after reading about a young girl who ran away in a newspaper.
@jslatz <br /> She should have slipped on her mother's dressing gown.
You see... the problem is that her parents worked so hard to give her everything...but she never felt that they loved her(something inside that was always denied) because they never gave her their time...because they were always working to get her "everything money could buy"... so she was living alone emotionally...she didn't feel loved
i think the living alone is feeling empty. you can be completely alone in a crowded room, it just depends on your perspective. i think that it could be about suiside, im just not suer though. it is a posibility.
@windchil I don’t see any suggestion of suicide. She’s meeting a man from the motor trade
the last chorus should be: She (What did we do that was wrong) Is having (We didn’t know it was wrong) Fun (Fun is the one thing that money can’t buy)
Song is about a story Paul read in the Daily Mirror about a 17yo girl called Melanie Coe who actually ran off with a croupier but who said later the song captured her feelings well. Was only a week before the little drama ended.
The most common tale is that on Wednesday, 9 November 1966 at 5 am, McCartney, while working on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, stormed out of a recording session after an argument with the other Beatles and rode off in his Austin-Healey, which he subsequently crashed.[5]
The story was largely pieced together by fans from the lyrics of several Beatles songs. The most common narrative includes the following pieces of evidence: "He didn't notice that the lights had changed" ("A Day in the Life") because he was busy watching the pretty girl on the pavement (the eponymous meter maid of "Lovely Rita") after narrowly missing her dressed in blue (she's said to be the blur on the back of Abbey Road) jaywalking ("Blue Jay Way"). He then crashed into a lamp-post (a car crash sound is heard in "Revolution 9" and "A Day in the Life"). He was pronounced dead on a "Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock as the day begins" ("She's Leaving Home"), and nobody found out this because the news was withheld: "Wednesday morning papers didn't come" ("Lady Madonna"). A funeral procession was held days later (as supposedly implied in the Abbey Road album cover). Adding fuel to the legend is the ending of "Strawberry Fields Forever." Some believed John said "I buried Paul" in a slow deep voice over the final refrain. He later refuted that, stating that he said "cranberry sauce."
According to believers, McCartney was replaced with the winner of a McCartney look-alike contest. The name of this look-alike has been recorded as William Shears Campbell, Billy Shears (the name of the fictitious leader of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), William Sheppard (based on the inspiration for the song "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"), or some combination of the names.
There is no evidence of any sort of car crash in which McCartney was involved, although during the first week of January 1967, McCartney's custom-made Mini Cooper was wrecked by a friend on the M1 Motorway outside London. McCartney was involved in a moped crash on December 26, 1965, which resulted in a chipped tooth and the scar on his lip that can be seen on promotional videos for the "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" single, made shortly after the crash, in May 1966. According to McCartney, his desire to hide the scar on his lip was the impetus to grow a moustache; at about the same time the other three Beatles grew moustaches as well—in time for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
so here is what i found on that hoax for the ppl that have lloked into this paul is dead thing so i hope u take the time to read this so u can relize THAT IT WAS A HOAX AND IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO...ty
Ok, this might be a bit late, but I think this song is about a pregnancy. I can't think of what Beatle it might be bout, but I think it's either about a girl having a baby or an abortion. A girl leaves her parents with something living inside her that, that is always denied. And the man she keeps the appointment with. Meh, me just thinks this has to do with an unwanted pregnancy or abortion. Hopefully not the 2nd.
cnelson15 is right about abortion.<br /> I'm not entirely sure about the "denied" part, but the "man from the motor trade" is not a client, it was a term for back-street abortionists.<br /> My drama teacher in year 11 gave us this song to study and use as stimulus for a devised piece and he knew his stuff about the Beatles.<br /> So yes, I'd definitely say this song is about abortion and a girl being denied what she truly needs to live and be happy.
Wow. Wow. You guys are REALLY looking into this a bit too far. You are seeing stuff that is not there. A 'man from the motor trade' is an English term for....a mechanic. Yep, that's it. No hidden meaning, no trickery. "Something inside that was always denied" is not about abortion. The addition of "for so many years" should make that clear. In a nutshell, she is a young girl who has fallen in love, and wants to leave home to be with her beau. She has to run away to do that. Wikipedia the song name, you'll get the idea.
One of the Beatles most beautiful songs. My dad's favorite.
Yes indeed. And one of the sadest, too.