What I Want This To Accomplish

I love music. I love all kinds of music. I love a good melody and I love good lyrics. Here's the thing. Too often I have noticed people getting lost in the melodic side of a song and never listen to the lyrics, the message that the songwriter is trying to share with the listener. Words mean things and there are a lot of songs out there with great lyrics. Here you will find love and hurt, pain and longing, emotions and intimate thoughts from songwriters over the years. There will be no commentary from me on the lyrics. Just the words. The words for you to read, process and ponder and hopefully come away with a little more meaning to a song than just a lovely melody. A more complete understanding of where the artist is coming from. - Bill Clark

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

ELEANOR RIGBY

Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Eleanor Rigby
 picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been, 
lives in a dream.
Waits at the window,
 wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. 
Who is it for?
All the lonely people, 
where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, 
where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie,
 writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear, 
no one comes near.
Look at him working.
 Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there,
what does he care?
All the lonely people,
 where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, 
where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people. 
Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby
 died in the church and was buried along with her name, 
nobody came.
Father McKenzie,
 wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave,
 no one was saved.
All the lonely people, 
where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
 where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people.
 Ah, look at all the lonely people. 

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