JOHN LENNON
The Mystic-Surrealist
WITH THE BEATLES
IN MY LIFE
[Memories of loved ones are endearing for Lennon, but
he has a vision of Love that transcends, yet inheres, in
human sentiment]
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THE WORD
[Transcendent Love is the light and freedom and joy of
our life, and we keep in touch with It by sounding the
word Love like a mantra]
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
[how to live love in this temporal reality in relation to Love in
its timeless reality.]
AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING
[All material and personal attachments will eventually pale
for us; and when they do,we can turn to our inward God for
solace and fulfillment]
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RAIN
[Change your state of mind, or your attitude, and you
can change yourself.]
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SHE SAID SHE SAID
[On being told that someone had experienced death,
Lennon feels himself drawn into that same "reality" of
death – "You're making me feel like I've never been born."]
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TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
[Don't be fearful of surrendering our ego-sensuality to the meaning within us, which is pure Love-Being.]
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BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN
[Our treasure is within us however poor we may be, or
whoever we are, outwardly]
I AM THE WALRUS
[a surrealistic swirl of seemingly meaningless
words to make the point that we are all essentially one]
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER
[It could be that he – we – is living in a dream and that the
real "he" is somewhere else, in some other reality.]
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LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS
[Surrealistically, Lennon plays with images that evoke the infinite capacity of the mind to alter ordinary perceptions of reality]
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ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
[Lennon's poetic images evoke the multiplicity of Love in its perpetual play of energy forces and forms, and contrasts this multiplicity of Love with the unifying still, void, of Love]
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DEAR PRUDENCE
[Lennon sings to Prudence not to be so engrossed in meditation that she can't enjoy the play and beauty of life
which is as much a part of nature as the cosmos]
EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY MONKEY
[Opposites cancel each other out when it comes to essential Reality; There is only Oneness there. Down you go is where
you are up; your mind inside is Mind outside; though you are moving, you are really still; you are here, there, and every-
where at the same time]
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HEY BULLDOG
[We are essentially measureless, timeless, eternally beyond
our fearing, lonely, ego selves; so let's get to that "beyond"
here and now]
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YER BLUES
[Though he knows his essential universality, he still suffers
for the need of his life's mate]
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BECAUSE
[Yes, nature is beautiful; but the Love that underlies nature
is sublime, is sacred]
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THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
[He identifies his soul's predicament with Christ's; yet knows that, as with Christ, in the end, his soul is immortal]
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SOLO
INSTANT KARMA
[Our karma - personal consequences – is here in this life as well as beyond; so let us keep in mind our shining eternality even though our ego-self belongs to our life here and now.
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LOVE
[Love is everything and a reconciliation of opposites how
to live love in this temporal reality in relation to Love in its
timeless reality.]
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GOD
[God reasoned as a concept results from our psychological fears of the unknown beyond life. Our reality in this life is
foremost the integrity of our self-identity accompanied with our loved ones.]
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MIND GAMES
[ We are to strive to will our consciousness toward more consciousness, toward the ultimate consciousness: Love]
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#9 DREAM
[He has experienced pure Love-consciousness; but
he's not sure whether it was a dream or not; yet through
music, symbols, and images he can be in touch with It at least aesthetically]
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WATCHING THE WHEELS
[His life presently revolves around experiencing the eternal-infinite circles of life and death]
HERE WE GO AGAIN
[He knows he's been here in life before; yet in a strangely different setting than before.]
INDIA INDIA
[Though India is known as the spiritual place to find one's spiritual path; yet Lennon comes to realize that his spiritual place is in his mind immersed in life and the erotic.]
CHILD OF NATURE
[He loves nature humanly; but through the transcendence
and freedom of his soul.]
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HAPPY RISHIKESH SONG
[A parody in thinking that one can reach nirvana (pure-bliss consciousness) through mind-altering substances]
PAUL McCARTNEY
The joyous-Nostalgic Romantic
WITH THE BEATLES
THE THINGS WE SAID TODAY
[Remembering the passion and play of his love so long ago
will always deeply endear her to him.]
HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE
[The sweetness of loving a woman endearingly who is everywhere in his mind and life]
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YESTERDAY
[Love is not a fool's game.]
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ALL MY LOVING
[Near or far, he will always love her]
THE FOOL ON THE HILL
[There this person is on the mountain meditating his life
away trying to merge with the universe. Who's the fool: he or we who judge him as a fool?]
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MOTHER NATURE'S SON
[The lyrical poet basking in the midst of nature apart from civilization]
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BLACKBIRD
[Be like the blackbird at night and fly into the light beyond
your troubled, broken life.]
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GOOD DAY SUNSHINE!
[He shines inside as the sun being in love with that special person.]
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ELEANOR RIGBY
[The tragic life of a meaningless life of grey, futility and drudgery]
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PENNY LANE
[The nostalga of an endearing place in his memory]
Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da
[The endless scenareo of boy-meets-girl and all that follows]
YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW
[Let the charm of foregone tunes upliftingly remind you of the
songs your mother once knew]
WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR
[Not being needed anymore, will he be taken care
of as he ages?]
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LET IT BE
[He is singing to the feminine principal of life both personal and impersonal; known poetically as the "eternal feminine"]
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WITH WINGS
MULL OF KINTYRE
[The recollection of his (final?) coming home to the sublime grandeur of the picturesque peninsula by
the sea]
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GEORGE HARRISON
The Soul-Spiritualist
WITH THE BEATLES
THE INNER LIGHT
[Knowledge of outwardness is attained through perception; wisdom of inwardness is attained through introspection.]
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WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU
[We normally live our life outwardly uncaring that life inwardly is Love – love within us.]
LONG, LONG, LONG
[ It takes so long for us to find, and appreciate that find, the love of our life, whether the find be God or our soul mate.]
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SOLO
DEHRA DUN
[He uses the beautiful city, Dehradun, in India as an image representing the many roads that lead to God]
LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
[He's caught in the web of self and desire and wants to free himself while here in this life.]
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RISING SUN
[Through the dark of his mind and life, realization glows through him of the spiritual potential of his being]
BLOW AWAY
[life's blows had blocked his spirit from the peace of love, which frees him from them.]
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MY SWEET LORD
[He wants to be immersed in, be guided by, his soul: his God, Jesus, Krishna]
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HEAR ME LORD
[He implores his Lord, who is everywhere and every- thing,within himself; to forgive his frail humanity for not striving to be closer to Him.In fact, he is imploring himself within himself]
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THAT IS ALL
[Aside from the interpretation of his love of a woman, he could be singing that all he really wants from life is to live in and for his Lord]
GIVE ME LOVE (GIVE ME PEACE ON EARTH)
[He is singing for the grace of his spirit to bear the burdens of life, to teach him love, and for this Love to impart peace in the world.]
THE DAY THE WORLD GETS ROUND
[He wants no part of those bent on destruction; but rather wants to be of the few who want to be part of the circle of Love]
ISN'T IT A PITY
[It's too bad that our self-engrossment hinders us from seeing the fullness of humanity and the beauty of the world.]
ART OF DYING
[There is no escaping it that sooner or later we are to fade and die; so it would be wise for us to spiritually prepare for that event.]
DING DONG DING DONG
[A (new year's?) resolution to seek the truth by dispelling falsehood]
WHO CAN SEE IT
[He's been through it all in this life of strife; now he wants to live to love for those who can appreciate his doing so.]
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THIS IS LOVE
[Through the power of love we can come to see and under-
stand so much more than ever before.]
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[Earthly love is bound by time and circumstances; but God-Love is timeless, yet knowingly joyous and blissful.]
ALL THINGS MUST PASS
[Nothing is permanent in this life except faith in the Permanent.]
FAR EAST MAN
[He must keep his faith in his guru (sage/seer) that teaches that love will save him from the perils and unpredictableness of life.]
THE LIGHT THAT HAS LIGHTED THE WORLD
[His life has changed from immersion in the sun's material world to aspiration for the infinite-eternal Light (Truth, Love, Meaning).
BEWARE OF DARKNESS
[We must ever be alert to the temptations and suceptibilities of our frail humanness from others and ourselves.]
BE HERE NOW
[Free yourself from your past thoughts that trouble and pain you to no end; trust yourself, because living in the present can free you to live in a different key.]
AWAITING ON YOU ALL
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IT IS HE
[If you wonder what the meaning of the world is, it is God, which Harrison interprets as Krishna]
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TRY SOME BUY SOME
[He lived it all in the material world; but felt empty psychologically and spiritually until his eyes (soul) were opened to his spirituality]
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JUST FOR TODAY
[He is asking to experience an inner spiritual transquility free from life's demands and emotions if only for a day.]
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MYSTICAL ONE
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I LIVE FOR YOU
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STUCK INSIDE A CLOUD
[His final farwell to life and to his loved ones; but with the consolation that as he slowly sinks into death, he will there greet his Lord, his immortality.]
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SELECTED BEATLES' GROUP & SOLO POPULAR SONGS
PAUL McCARTNEY
WE CAN WORK IT OUT [live]
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HEY JUDE [live]
HELLO GOODBYE [live]
GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE
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I'M LOOKING THROUGH YOU
HELTER SKELTER [anthology version]
YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
GOLDEN SLUMBERS/ CARRY THAT WEIGHT / THE END
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GET BACK [live]
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BAND ON THE RUN
LET 'EM IN
LET ME ROLL IT
LIVE AND LET DIE
HERE TODAY ( a tribute to John Lennon)
GEORGE HARRISON
SOMETHING
HERE COMES THE SUN
MISS O'DELL
DON'T MAKE ME WAIT TOO LONG
ALL THOSE YEARS AGO (A tribute to John Lennon)
JOHN LENNON
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
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GIRL
I FEEL FINE [live]
HELP
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DON'T LET ME DOWN [live]
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REVOLUTION
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NOW AND THEN
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RINGO STARR
DON'T PASS ME BY
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OCTUPUS'S GARDEN
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WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
YELLOW SUBMARINE
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GOOD NIGHT
NEVER WITHOUT YOU (a tribute to George Harrison) [live]
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