It's not psuedo - it does briefly break into a few bars of 3/4. And
certainly it's not the only Beatles song to do that (Not Guilty for one )
but this is the most blatant. Try counting out Happiness Is A Warm Gun for
kicks.

As for bridges in general - sometimes I use them - sometimes I don't. It's a
songwriting device - pure and simple. There's really no extra amount of
craft required to constuct one. Either it fits the song or it doesn't.
Several of my favorite Beatles songs don't have one for that matter.

Ultimately it boils down to this - is the song good or not? Adding a bridge
just for the sake of proving your craft is akin to... well nevermind.

Bobby Sutliff

> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:28:02 -0400
> From: "Eytan Mirsky" <eytanmirsky@hotmail.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: bridge/We can work it out
> Message-ID: <BAY16-F33TNGxjbscQo0007d159@hotmail.com>
>
>
> ARticle:
> The song "We Can Work It Out," for instance, has a typical
> McCartney optimism to it, until the bridge, thought to be by
> Lennon, becomes darker, more dubious, and more hurried
> on the bridge - "Life is very short, and there's no time ."
> Says Mann: "It's like the devil's advocate."
>
> 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."
>
> 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?
>
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