My older brothers played The Beatles a lot when I was but a wee one, and this song scared the everliving crap out of me. There's the ominous sound of the effects on George's voice, the fairly sinister sound of all the reversed and chopped up instruments and backup vocals, and the lyrics pleading, pleading, pleading not to be left alone in this place. Somehow this song manages to suggest everything terrifying about being lost or alone without implying the existence of any malicious entity or even anything dangerous. It still grabs at something that connects me to that childlike panic-steeped helplessness of being left.
My older brothers played The Beatles a lot when I was but a wee one, and this song scared the everliving crap out of me. There's the ominous sound of the effects on George's voice, the fairly sinister sound of all the reversed and chopped up instruments and backup vocals, and the lyrics pleading, pleading, pleading not to be left alone in this place. Somehow this song manages to suggest everything terrifying about being lost or alone without implying the existence of any malicious entity or even anything dangerous. It still grabs at something that connects me to that childlike panic-steeped helplessness of being left.