Perplexed wrote:
"So, let's cut to the chase. Paul is alive, isn't he?"
"I'll Be Back"
(The Beatles)
"You know if you break my heart I'll go, but I'll be back again,
'cause I told you once before goodbye, but I came back again.
I love you so oh I'm the one who wants you, yes, I'm the one
Who wants you, oh ho, oh ho, oh
You could find better things to do, than to break my heart again,
this time I will try to show that I'm not trying to pretend.
I thought that you would realize that if I ran away from you
that you would want me too,
but
I've got a big surprise, oh ho, oh ho, oh
You could find better things to do, than to break my heart again,
this time I will try to show that I'm not trying to pretend.
I wanna go but I hate to leave you, you know I hate to leave you , oh ho, Oh ho, oh
You, if you break my heart I'll go, but I'll be back again."
Why are we surprised? Look at all the clues:
"When I'm 64."
"Will Paul be back? He's Superman"
(from Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'):
"There must be some way out of here," said
the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.....
"No reason to get excited,"
the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and
this is not our fate" etc.
(John Lennon's: 'How Do You Sleep?'):
"So sgt. pepper took you by surprise
you better see right through that mother's eyes
those freaks was right when they
said you was you was dead"
In this song: FOR LIQUORICE JOHN (Procol Harum)
the final verse:
"He fell from grace and hit the ground
He fell into the sea and drowned
They saw him struggling from the harbour
They saw him wave as he went under"
The song ends, and after 5 seconds there is a musical "Ta Da!" like when a magician breaks free of handcuffs or other bonds. I believe "Liquorice John" is John Lennon, and the song is about Paul, who implicitly breaks the bonds of death.
This song correlates directly with the Klaatu song:
Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III
"Officially presumed as dead
But the words he left behind
Still echo through my mind:
'I'm the only man who'll ever get to hell and come back alive.'
He's the only man who'd ever get to hell and come back alive."
60if.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=60ifclues&action=display&thread=1059776944&page=5"I'll Be Back", like "I'll Follow the Sun" is one of the early Beatle songs, but I really have to wonder if, even in the
earlier songs, they were dropping hints; perhaps knowing on some subconscious level what was in store.
The Klaatu song hinted at time travel. cough cough
"Is Paul alive?" may be a different question than "Is Paul back?"