My understanding of the story is that of finding your own voice, which can take a while. Especially for a wolf, but once it’s found there is no mistaking it. As a musician I relate to this as I am constantly searching for my ‘musical’ voice, as you practice, you slowly develop it. It’s not any different from living, really. As you live, you become yourself; as you become yourself, you live. See what I did there? But it’s the truth; it’s the way of the world (to quote Earth, Wind and Fire). That’s life, and it’s a great way to write yourself a story.
Something in the way she moves,
Attracts me like no other lover.
Something in the way she woos me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.
Somewhere in her smile she knows,
That I don't need no other lover.
Something in her style that shows me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.
You're asking me will my love grow,
I don't know, I don't know.
Stick around, and it may show,
But I don't know, I don't know.
Something in the way she knows,
And all I have to do is think of her.
Something in the things she shows me.
I don't want to leave her now.
You know I believe and how. -The Beatles
Well, this song speaks to me as creative person because it is the upmost one can create, in any field. It’s the absolute tops; it’s a song that’s played at weddings, a song that makes people laugh or cry. It’s unbelievable the power it has considering it’s a 3 or 4 minute bit of sounds. It’s also unbelievably human, which is another thing that knocks me out about it. I mean no disrespect to video games or television or movies, but those are art forms that simply entertain, they don’t enlighten. You play a video game for a few hours to kill time, but you get nothing out of it. Music never stops giving back. It is just the opposite, really, it enlightens and entertains simultaneously; something no other art form can claim in the same way.
The lyrics are perfect, they can make you feel, they DO make you feel – but just reading them straight, sure they’re brilliant, but it’s the performance of George singing them that gives it the human emotion aspect. Another way music “one ups” if you will – poetry and writing can have power, but put the message to music and it’s unstoppable. It just hits you where nothing else can. “You’re asking me will my love grow? I don’t know, I don’t know” – it’s universal. It captures that feeling, a feeling which can be reinterpreted and all that by anyone who listens. The way the strings build over it, the instrumentation, everything. It just works.
I especially love how it musically “falls down” if you will, the “dum, dum, dum, dum, dum bum” part right before the guitar solo. Incredible, especially once you know that George Harrison (writer of this song, and lead guitarist) played his lead live as the orchestra recorded their overdubs. Harrison played the solo in one take.
I guess what I love about the lyrics is how universal, and applicable they are. He’s describing the feeling of being love, but he does it so effortlessly, and I think that’s the strange thing about a lot of really good songs and especially love song, is that you hear it and go “wow that’s perfect” and you can’t put your finger on why it’s perfect, it just is. That to me is perfection in song. It captures a feeling and mood, and puts you in it. And you don’t know why, or how, you just know it does. “And all I have to do is think of her” and you’re immediately thinking of a loved one. The Beatles were masters, and way ahead of their time. They reinvented the recording of pop music, the writing of pop music, the image of pop music, the business of pop music and lastly music theory all together. And songs like this show us how, why, and what it was The Beatles had that was so special. I’ve read this song is their second most covered, behind “Yesterday.” I believe it, and believe me: it will live forever.
Attracts me like no other lover.
Something in the way she woos me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.
Somewhere in her smile she knows,
That I don't need no other lover.
Something in her style that shows me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.
You're asking me will my love grow,
I don't know, I don't know.
Stick around, and it may show,
But I don't know, I don't know.
Something in the way she knows,
And all I have to do is think of her.
Something in the things she shows me.
I don't want to leave her now.
You know I believe and how.
Well, this song speaks to me as creative person because it is the upmost one can create, in any field. It’s the absolute tops; it’s a song that’s played at weddings, a song that makes people laugh or cry. It’s unbelievable the power it has considering it’s a 3 or 4 minute bit of sounds. It’s also unbelievably human, which is another thing that knocks me out about it. I mean no disrespect to video games or television or movies, but those are art forms that simply entertain, they don’t enlighten. You play a video game for a few hours to kill time, but you get nothing out of it. Music never stops giving back. It is just the opposite, really, it enlightens and entertains simultaneously; something no other art form can claim in the same way.
The lyrics are perfect, they can make you feel, they DO make you feel – but just reading them straight, sure they’re brilliant, but it’s the performance of George singing them that gives it the human emotion aspect. Another way music “one ups” if you will – poetry and writing can have power, but put the message to music and it’s unstoppable. It just hits you where nothing else can. “You’re asking me will my love grow? I don’t know, I don’t know” – it’s universal. It captures that feeling, a feeling which can be reinterpreted and all that by anyone who listens. The way the strings build over it, the instrumentation, everything. It just works.
I especially love how it musically “falls down” if you will, the “dum, dum, dum, dum, dum bum” part right before the guitar solo. Incredible, especially once you know that George Harrison (writer of this song, and lead guitarist) played his lead live as the orchestra recorded their overdubs. Harrison played the solo in one take.
I guess what I love about the lyrics is how universal, and applicable they are. He’s describing the feeling of being love, but he does it so effortlessly, and I think that’s the strange thing about a lot of really good songs and especially love song, is that you hear it and go “wow that’s perfect” and you can’t put your finger on why it’s perfect, it just is. That to me is perfection in song. It captures a feeling and mood, and puts you in it. And you don’t know why, or how, you just know it does. “And all I have to do is think of her” and you’re immediately thinking of a loved one. The Beatles were masters, and way ahead of their time. They reinvented the recording of pop music, the writing of pop music, the image of pop music, the business of pop music and lastly music theory all together. And songs like this show us how, why, and what it was The Beatles had that was so special. I’ve read this song is their second most covered, behind “Yesterday.” I believe it, and believe me: it will live forever.
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