The World is What?

I first heard Rubber Soul when I was about six. That album has always been one of my favorites, which I think has something to do with the sound of something, some element in there, but I don’t know what. However, for years after I first heard it, I would often wonder what the heck “The Word” was supposed to be about. This is because, well, I had no clue what the words really were.

You are all familiar with the actual lyrics, yes? Well, this is what I was hearing:

Save the world and you’ll be free
Save the world and be like me
Save the world and think it out
Have you heard the world is love?
It’s so fine
It’s sunshine
It’s the world love

I know what you’re all thinking: “What the hell?” And that’s what I was thinking, but keep in mind I was six. I assumed that “the world is love” must mean something important to be in a song. Here’s the sad part: I went around with this misconception for several years. Recently I got back into the Beatles; then, and only then, did I realize what the real words were.

Which makes “the world is love” even weirder, in my opinion.

Tags: Beatles, errors, FAIL, lame, music, nonsense, revelation, stupid, the world

Music

This music thing is getting way out of hand. By the way, did you know I’m a crappy songwriter? I’ll show you.

Going In Circles

Sitting on the porch playing “Here Comes The Sun”
The battle’s lost and I’ve barely begun
‘Cause I’ll never be what you said I’d become
To you.

When I got to the bottom I went back to the top of the slide
You were still there, waiting to go for a ride
I won’t go in circles for you anymore.

I never thought it would come to this
But even though you will be missed
I just can’t go in circles for you anymore.

I kept on listening to your every demand
You thought you had me in the palm of your hand
Well now it’s time that I take a stand
For you.

I’ll never do anything again
For you.

I’ll never do anything again
For you.

I can’t believe it’s not sh*t!

I have another one too, but it’s more of a poem. I’ve sort of got a tune for “Going In Circles” but it might already be taken by a real song. Opinions?

Tags: crap, I wrote it!, music, stupid, suckish

OH, I Get It Now!

I’m sooooooo lame.

A couple days/weeks/some unit of time ago, Duncan and I were home alone, late. We were watching The Rutles with popcorn. That is, we were having popcorn, not them. And I was checking the songs against the ones on our CDs. And I realized how lame something was which I shall reveal to you now.

Looooong ago, I was obsessively looking up Beatles songs on Wikipedia, as I do, and I read something about Ringo’s real name being Richard Starkey on the actual page for the band. This seems irrelevant, but it gets better.

Much more recently, although not within the past month or so, I was listening to the White Album outside my iPod for the first time in…ever, I think. Maybe not quite. Anyway, I was looking at the lyrics for “Don’t Pass Me By”, and it said Starkey under it instead of Lennon/McCartney or Harrison. I spent a moment puzzling over it, but decided it was someone connected to the Beatles who I’ve never heard of.

A week or two later, I was watching The Rutles for the first or second time, and there’s this thing where they say they found their drummer, Barrington Womble (or something), hiding in the van, and had him change his name to save time, so he changed it to Barry Wom. And I was thinking, “Okay, he’s the drummer, so he’s Ringo, and Ringo did change his name. What did he change it from?…Oh, Richard Starkey.” Later in the movie, my mind wanders to the White Album. And:

“OH! I get it now!” Yes, I said that out loud (I think) upon realizing that Ringo had written “Don’t Pass Me By”.

I’m so lame.

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I can has problem?

Okay, so I told you that before, I couldn’t listen to Wings, right? Then I told you about how part of “Too Many People” floated through my head and got me hooked on our one CD for a weekend, yes? Y’know what happened the following week?

I spent three days getting “Band On The Run” out of my head. This seems trivial, sure, but I love that song, yet now I avoid it completely. Why? Two words:

Guilt trip.

Listening to Wings makes me feel guilty. Like I’m betraying my Beatles fandom. Every single time I think of this, I realize how utterly stupid that sounds. And it is stupid.

I can has help?

Tags: Beatles, lame, revelation, Rutles, Starkey, Wikipedia

Magic Goats

Oh my god.

How stupid can people possibly be?

Magic goats?!

Tags: FAIL, Failblog, magic goats