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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: bridge/We can work it out |
| Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:13:05 -0400 |
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AT Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:28:02 Eytan wrote:
>Me:
>I'm no Beatles expert, but (every one of my songs has a bridge and) I don't
>get this. Doesn't the bridge actually seem slower, not faster. It even goes
>into a kind of psuedo 3/4 time at the end of the lines, kind of like it's
>winding down, mimicking the lyrical idea that "there's no time."
The bridge IS slower....it breaks into a waltz. Try playing it
live....without a full compliment of drums, there's no groove to lock
into....everyone has to count out the transitions.
>Personally, I was never sure I really understood this song anyway. I always
>thought the lyrics had a deliberate irony to them. I mean "We can work it
>out" if you see it MY way, but if you insist on seeing it YOUR way, then
>everything might fall apart. Maybe this isn't deliberate?
It's deliberately ironic (if that's possible). The song expouses the virtues
of a relationship by dictatorship. Effectively, the narrator is saying,
"Look, if you weren't being such a dink and did things the way I told you to
we'd have this problem resolved."
Randy Bachman used to talk about this in BTO -- he felt a band couldn't be
run by committee. It had to be a benign dictatorship or nothing would get
done. Someone had to call the shots so that songs/albums/concert plans could
move forward instead of stagnating and dying because everyone wanted to go
in different directions.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages
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