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Beatles - Girl Song Meanings

Girl is fame. John longed for it, then got it, and immediately regretted it. He was bitter about it too. "Tit, tit, tit, tit ..." Cf. "I'm a Loser." The girl in that song is also fame.

Submitted by: HelterSkelter
Added: 2006-05-06 22:19:45     Rating:

This song is actually a dig on the catholic church, John was qouted as saying such in an interview. It has nothing what so ever to do with fame. Also, the backing vocals are not dit dit, or didi as the lyrics on this sight suggest, they're saying Tit tit tit over and overagain. The beatles liked throwing in stuff like that to see if they could get away with it (they found it quite amusing), and they did. Enjoy!

Submitted by: Thorn495
Added: 2007-01-09 16:10:41     Rating:

I see it plainly as one of those girls that plays games with hearts and causes deep pain and frustration. Lennon ends it pretty dark:

"Was she told when she was young the pain would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said,
That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he's dead?"

When he's dead, he turns suicidal because he lets her spin him in circles with her games and he just wants to feel loved.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-07-15 00:37:43     Rating:

This is a particularly brilliant piece of work even when compared with the Beatles (John Lennon's) finest . The opening line is sheer genius ! In the course of a few seconds Lennon paints a complete scene for us while setting a narritive mood for the piece . It grabs our attention immediately and beckons us to stop whatever we are doing and listen closely and quietly with a sympathetic ear.

The music serves to support the story simply and economically. The lyrical content of the song is classic and universal ,the situation easily identifiable by thousands of us who have shared aspects of Lennon's experience and yet have probably not not reflected on our episodes poetically.

Praise be to artists such as Lennon for helping us to see ourselves and the world around us with greater clarity in the mirror of our relationship and experience with their art.
K.D.

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