167. "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles {#11; 8/66} [iTunes? Yes]
"All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"
"Eleanor Rigby died in a church and was buried along with her name."
For some reason, I have a soft spot in my heart for "lonely" songs. Songs like "Message In a Bottle" by the Police; "Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan; and "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen. For most of my adult life, these were songs I could wallow in. "Eleanor Rigby" is one of the best of these songs.
Oh, woe is me...I'm so lonely. Just like Eleanor Rigby. And Father MacKenzie.
(Obviously, now that the background sound of my life is the endless happy jabbering of my three year old boy and five year old girl, and I have not only them, but my lovely wife in my life as well, these "lonely" songs don't have quite the same meaning to me as they once did.)
Like "Somebody To Love" by Queen, this song is not nearly as high on this list as it would have been seven years ago.
COMING UP NEXT: I am the fastest runner!
Eleanor Rigby : Loneliness :: __________ : __________
ReplyDeleteA. Joe Capell : Endless happy jabbering
B. Sting : A hundred billion castaways
C. Buckwheat : Wookin' Pa Nub
D. Father MacKenzie : Secretly burying some old lady he murdered in the church
Correct answer: C (In all the wrong places.)
ReplyDelete(Although, I think answer "D" was the plot of an episode of "Bones" I saw once.)
Research shows that 9 out of 10 forensic anthropologists would prefer to perform an examination of Eric Carmen's putrified corpse over the sullied remains of Gilbert O'Sullivan
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