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