![]() The ‘silly people who run around, they worry me, and never ask why they don’t get in my door.’ These were the fans that constantly besieged my home, often camping outside on the pavement for days…If they only knew the best way to get in is not to do that, because obviously anyone who is going to be straight and be like a real friend is going to get in.but they simply stand there and give off the impression, 'Dont let us in.' I actually do enjoy having them in. He continued to avoid any drug connections by focusing on specific lines in the song, as we see here in yet another 1967 quote: “It’s about the hole in your make-up which lets the rain in and stops your mind going where it will. When asked in 1967 in an interview with artist Alan Aldridge about the drug associations circulating about “Fixing A Hole,” Paul dismissed it by saying: “If you’re a junky sitting in a room and fixing a hole then that’s what it will mean to you, but when I wrote it I meant if there’s a crack, or the room is uncolorful, then I’ll paint it.” Another quote from Paul has him stating that the song was “about the hole in the road where the rain gets in a good old analogy.” At the point the song was written, the drug was more likely than not to be marijuana." Also, not to confuse the specific drug intake of the group, Paul had admited around this time to have taken LSD, which could possibly explain why their music had become so “weird” at the time, as many listeners and reviewers expressed. "Some people take 'Fixing A Hole" to be about heroin," Paul explains in his book "The Lyrics," adding, "That's most likely because they're visualizing needle holes. After all, with phrases like “ I get high” and “ I’d love to turn you on” peppered through the album, as well as the supposed de-coding of the title “ Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” to stand for LSD, it was not a far jump to say this song concerned getting a “fix” by shooting heroin. Pepper” and thereafter made the easy assumption that “Fixing A Hole” was about heroin. The rumor mill at the time of the release of “ Sgt. What could it all mean? Does it mean what we think it means? Or is it as Paul sings in the song: “ It really doesn’t matter”? Pepper” formula, he threw off these shackles (at least temporarily) for his eccentric “Fixing A Hole.” Like Lennon’s “ Tomorrow Never Knows” and Harrison’s “ Love You To” from the previous year, listeners were now also scratching their heads about this McCartney track. While he did admit that “ Got To Get You Into My Life” was indeed about marijuana, he still disguised the subject matter under the premise of a romantic relationship.įinally, under the “ Sgt. As tantalizing as “ Here, There And Everywhere” and “ Good Day Sunshine” are, he didn’t stray too far from the "romance" formula. ![]() But, as evident on their landmark 1966 album “ Revolver,” Paul McCartney showed himself to be the last holdout for writing songs about the standard topic of love. George Harrison was also quick to follow suit, focusing primarily on higher consciousness-attaining subjects. ![]() John Lennon appeared to be the first to totally discard the “ I Want To Hold Your Hand” mentality, constructing his storylines on whatever suited his fancy – anything but romantic relationships. Whether this was due to their dissatisfaction with sticking to the approved pop formula of the day, their recent spiritual awakenings, or simply the mind-expanding hallucinogens they were ingesting (or all of the above), they nonetheless developed a "no holds barred" attitude to expressing themselves in their lyrics. A s we examine the later Beatles catalog, we can’t help but notice the stark differences in lyric writing as compared to their earlier work.
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