11-09-2011, 15:24
Deciphering The Beatles.........Seventeen..............Nowhere Man
Lyrics
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn't have a point of view
knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else
Lends you a hand
Ah, la, la, la, la
Doesn't have a point of view
knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
Ah, la, la, la, la
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Written in 1966 , This is another of Johnâs introspective songs: at this point in his carrier John felt that he was going nowhere..................He had ridden the rocket to fame, he had become a celebrity, he was part of a successful song writing team, he had become as he was to say in Iâm The Greatest..........part of âthe Greatest Show On Earthâ and somehow it felt like nothing, it counted for nothing .
So in his room at the back of Kenwood, he decided to try and write about all this.....................and how it felt.
He took one step away from it and wrote in the third person and created a character out of his feelings..................
He started with where he was now:
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
John is The Nowhere Man
He sits in Kenwood away from it all................Nowhere land
He feels he cannot say what he wants or eels because it might damage the Beatles clean âmop topâ image.....................so his real feelings donât get to be shown
John was resentful of the way the Beatles had to be so careful i what they did or said: The Maureen Cleave article that lead to the clash with the Bible belt of the USA had left Brian Epstein and Derek Taylor very cautious of what they could and could not be seen to do.........
So John reflected this
Doesn't have a point of view
knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Then he starts to talk to his new character John/Nowhereman
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
The tensions between what John will do and wants to do ae here in the last part of this verse, He is trying to give himself permission and the justification to speak out on the matters that matter to him
Now we get John talking about how he feels really in the third person of No Where Man:
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else
Lends you a hand
Ah, la, la, la, la
The later part reflects the idea of John positioning himself ready to speak out and say what he thinks...........however, it would not be until the death of Brian Epstein , that this would happen.
The song then repeats parts of itself to an end ............
There is an interesting coda to the song
Al Brodax and his team at King features were commissioned to turn Yellow submarine into an animated feature in late 66 or so.................In doing so , one of the key points in the film, is the inclusion of the song Nowhere Man................
They managed to build on the imagery of the song to produce an actual nowhere man character.
In doing so they, throw up a mirror to John and his character and reveal some other parts.
The Character is name Jeremy Hillary Boob PhD....................................
If the animation is studied, this person has some traits that are seen in John........He is a writer, and artist..............a musician ....................an intellectual....................
He lives in âhisâ nowhere land which is a void created by a vacuum beast !
The character is used to mark a turning point in the film by his ability to âMend The Motor â and after this there is a change in the fact that by finding a âNowhere manâ they are able to go somewhere! Hence , mimicking Johnâs feeling of being in a void but by writing this song he had given permission to himself to be able to start speaking out...............it was a while before he did but Revolution was the point in question which was motivated by Nowhere Man.
Lyrics
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn't have a point of view
knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else
Lends you a hand
Ah, la, la, la, la
Doesn't have a point of view
knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
Ah, la, la, la, la
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Written in 1966 , This is another of Johnâs introspective songs: at this point in his carrier John felt that he was going nowhere..................He had ridden the rocket to fame, he had become a celebrity, he was part of a successful song writing team, he had become as he was to say in Iâm The Greatest..........part of âthe Greatest Show On Earthâ and somehow it felt like nothing, it counted for nothing .
So in his room at the back of Kenwood, he decided to try and write about all this.....................and how it felt.
He took one step away from it and wrote in the third person and created a character out of his feelings..................
He started with where he was now:
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
John is The Nowhere Man
He sits in Kenwood away from it all................Nowhere land
He feels he cannot say what he wants or eels because it might damage the Beatles clean âmop topâ image.....................so his real feelings donât get to be shown
John was resentful of the way the Beatles had to be so careful i what they did or said: The Maureen Cleave article that lead to the clash with the Bible belt of the USA had left Brian Epstein and Derek Taylor very cautious of what they could and could not be seen to do.........
So John reflected this
Doesn't have a point of view
knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Then he starts to talk to his new character John/Nowhereman
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
The tensions between what John will do and wants to do ae here in the last part of this verse, He is trying to give himself permission and the justification to speak out on the matters that matter to him
Now we get John talking about how he feels really in the third person of No Where Man:
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else
Lends you a hand
Ah, la, la, la, la
The later part reflects the idea of John positioning himself ready to speak out and say what he thinks...........however, it would not be until the death of Brian Epstein , that this would happen.
The song then repeats parts of itself to an end ............
There is an interesting coda to the song
Al Brodax and his team at King features were commissioned to turn Yellow submarine into an animated feature in late 66 or so.................In doing so , one of the key points in the film, is the inclusion of the song Nowhere Man................
They managed to build on the imagery of the song to produce an actual nowhere man character.
In doing so they, throw up a mirror to John and his character and reveal some other parts.
The Character is name Jeremy Hillary Boob PhD....................................
If the animation is studied, this person has some traits that are seen in John........He is a writer, and artist..............a musician ....................an intellectual....................
He lives in âhisâ nowhere land which is a void created by a vacuum beast !
The character is used to mark a turning point in the film by his ability to âMend The Motor â and after this there is a change in the fact that by finding a âNowhere manâ they are able to go somewhere! Hence , mimicking Johnâs feeling of being in a void but by writing this song he had given permission to himself to be able to start speaking out...............it was a while before he did but Revolution was the point in question which was motivated by Nowhere Man.
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
