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   ebuzzmiller says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Wood_(This_Bird_Has_Flown) it's a song about a girl...

   Permalink posted 02/19/2007
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   funkballs says Titian, HONEST TO GOD

   Permalink posted 02/19/2007
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   ivylander says I always thought it was a pot song. Y'know, "So I lit a fire, isn't it good Norwegian wood"? Or is that too Beavis and Butthead?

   Permalink posted 02/19/2007
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   Lester Jonze says John Lennon was in a real groove on this LP. All his songs are like a bite back at his new fame, his increasingly isolated life. I bet he had a few affairs in this period, _Norwegian Wood_, _Girl_, _The Word_, and ironically a song he wrote as a jealous spat towards his wife, Cynthia. _Run For Your Life_, kind of a lousy song to end an excellent album. But damn, this album is like a mini auto biography for Lennon. Can't forget _Nowhere Man_, and _Wait_. Might as well go listen to it now, so I will.

   Permalink posted 02/19/2007
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   Tony Scalzo says You have ??funkballs??...

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   Wade says Alright, having just finished the 863 page Beatles biography by Mark Spitz, I have some information about this song: "John claimed he based the narrative on an extramarital affair he was having, insiders say with the journalist Maureen Cleave, and that it was 'my song completely', meaning the entire composition. Decades later Paul would take issue with that account..beginning with the fanciful title, which he said was nothing more than an inside joke about the cheap pine walls in Peter Asher's bedroom" also: "..once a song was begun, no conceit could stop their momentum. Everything just poured out, the character of the girl, or "bird", her rejection of the lover along with his due penance, "to sleep in the bath" and the extreme revenge he exact in the morning after "this bird has flown" I guess the revenge is lighting the fire? Anyway, the biography is fantastic, I loved it.

   Permalink posted 02/19/2007
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   funkballs says i just love getting insight from so many directions. norwegian wood could certainly be just a phrase in a song with no meaning - but i like to think that it does mean something. thanks guys. rock it

   Permalink posted 02/20/2007

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