Largely thanks to George Harrison's fascination with Indian culture, the latter Beatles ventured into traditional Eastern themes. Tomorrow Never Knows, one of their trippier tracks, features monastic, humming lyrics while describing the art of meditation. Yet despite their wandering style, The Beatles were a Western band through and through, greatly shaping a whole era's culture on their native side of the meridian.
She Said She Said sketches a story about a melancholic girl who expresses her feelings with the darkest aspect of Eastern enlightenment - knowing the afterlife. This girl isn't happy, though, so I suppose she's just posturing with her jabber about being dead inside. She comes off as a little melodramatic.
Prince charming of this song, the narrator and John Lennon, is probably an equally Bohemian friend of the melancholic girl. He must be buying into some Eastern philosophy if the girl is making him feel like he had never been born - I don't think that means anything, really.
The two lean on each other: the girl confides her sadness, the man is given a chance to rescue her. Since the man knew happiness as a boy, and in all likelihood both probably know some happiness in their present life, there is a glimmer of hope in a future together, although nothing is guaranteed. Isn't tentative hope at the heart of music?
Largely thanks to George Harrison's fascination with Indian culture, the latter Beatles ventured into traditional Eastern themes. Tomorrow Never Knows, one of their trippier tracks, features monastic, humming lyrics while describing the art of meditation. Yet despite their wandering style, The Beatles were a Western band through and through, greatly shaping a whole era's culture on their native side of the meridian.
She Said She Said sketches a story about a melancholic girl who expresses her feelings with the darkest aspect of Eastern enlightenment - knowing the afterlife. This girl isn't happy, though, so I suppose she's just posturing with her jabber about being dead inside. She comes off as a little melodramatic.
Prince charming of this song, the narrator and John Lennon, is probably an equally Bohemian friend of the melancholic girl. He must be buying into some Eastern philosophy if the girl is making him feel like he had never been born - I don't think that means anything, really.
The two lean on each other: the girl confides her sadness, the man is given a chance to rescue her. Since the man knew happiness as a boy, and in all likelihood both probably know some happiness in their present life, there is a glimmer of hope in a future together, although nothing is guaranteed. Isn't tentative hope at the heart of music?