McCartney Album "Memory Almost Full" A Confession?

[jarvitronics]

Holy cow! On the new McCartney album, Memory Almost Full, is a song called House of Wax. (Madame Tussaud's no doubt.)

Lightning hits the house of wax
Poets spill out on the street
To set alight the incomplete
Remainders of the future

Hidden in the yard. Hidden in the yard.

Thunder drowns the trumpets blast
Poets scatter through the night
But they can only dream of flight
Away from their confusion

Hidden in the yard. Underneath the wall
Buried deep below a thousand layers lay
the answer to it all

Lightning hits the house of wax
Women scream and run around
To dance upon the battleground
Like wild demented horses

Hidden in the yard. Underneath the wall
Buried deep below a thousand layers lay
the answer to it all

[jarvitronics]

Regarding the line in the third verse, "To dance upon the battleground," on the Sgt. Pepper cover, in the lower-center of the "yard," is the four-armed Kali. (She normally holds a severed head in her lower-left hand - yet another Sgt Pepper allusion to death by violence to the head).

Anyway, in what is arguably the most famous Kali myth, she is called in to destroy the demon Raktavija who has been inadvertantly duplicated. (Each drop of his blood creates a duplicate of himself). After she sucks the blood out of all the duplicates with her tongue, she dances in a blood-drunken frenzy on the battlefield!

To dance upon the battleground indeed!!!

The next line, "Like wild demented horses," could be an allusion to the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," (since the Shirley Temple doll's sweater says "Welcome The Rolling Stones.")

The phrase "Underneath the wall" refers to the wall of people in the Sgt Pepper background. In the original Peter Blake sketch, the people are actually drawn behind a wall.

The line "Lightning hits the house of wax" sounds to me like a reference to the pre-Pepper version of the Beatles as represented by the wax Beatle dummies from Madam Tussaud's House of Wax.

The verses that talk about "Poets" are suggestive of the remaining three Beatles. Does the phrase "set alight" in the first verse suggest that the body was cremated? The "incomplete remainders" could be interpreted as the decapitated remains of the body.

The lyrics to this song are freaking me out.