Awaiting on you all...

[SingingOm]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By AmandaLennon:
do you guys think it could be possible that the first lines "you don't need no love-IN, you don't need no "BED-pan" an ironic comment, teasing john&yoko's BED IN in favor of peace?

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Yes, it would appear to be a comment on John and Yoko's 'Bed in'. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/sleep2.gif

The song is actually about Japa-Yoga meditation (soft chanting) and the lyrics really speak for themselves. Although the way George basically says 'you don't need no church house, you don't need no temple' etc, I would say his inspiration also came from Swami Vivekenanda, although the song is often quoted by the Hare Krishna movement.


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"Y'know I'm really ready with John Lennon and Bob Dylan and Lord Buckley and Lenny Bruce and Lord Krishna and Jesus Christ, and lets get us all together into a band. I tell you, even in The Beatles I rated Dylan much better than John and Paul and I still do." ~ George 1974

[FPSHOT]

I don't know if there is a connection to John.

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"The speech of flowers excels the flowers of speech
But what's often in your heart, is the hardest thing to reach
And life is one long mystery, my friend
So live on, live on, the answer's at the end"
George, 1975

do you guys think it could be possible that the first lines "you don't need no love-IN, you don't need no "BED-pan" an ironic comment, teasing john&yoko's BED IN in favor of peace?
i don't know when awaiting was written, that's why i ask, i love to dig indirect messages in beatles songs. and george was very sardonic, i think it's quite possible that him as a discreet believer thought that john's idea a little too opportunist, i don't know, what do you think?

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i hate oasis. oasis rot in hell. stupid gallarghers oughta die!

[Sgt.McCartney]

My favorite one: BED PEACE - HAIR PEICE

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Ryan: What's wrong with you people? 25 million dollars, is that the best you can do?
Colin: That will barely cover the hair gel for the cast of friends.

-"Whose Line Is It Anyway"?

i meant to ask that because it sounds like a game of words, really.
BED pan/Love IN
I'm so convinced by my guess. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/blush2.gif
and george could be very critical in a good way.

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i hate oasis. oasis rot in hell. stupid gallarghers oughta die!

[darkhorse]

I've always thought the same as Amanda.

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"Don't you notice how the wheel goes 'round?
And you'd better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down" ~ Eric & George, 1969

[Rellevart]

You know, I never thought of that before, but it's certainly possible. I've always really liked that song - I think it's interesting how the arrangement is so upbeat and poppy, but the lyrics are religious in places and cynical in places.

Thanks for giving me something new to think about! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

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I go back so far, I'm in front of me...

[FiendishThingie]

I don't think it was meant to harm them in anyway. Actually, I think it's clever that he drew attention to what John & Yoko did. But he's really saying you don't need anything fancy. It's all very simple, ya know?

Fishy T http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wink3.gif

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"Music always had a transcendental quality inasmuch as it reaches parts of you that you don't expect it to reach. And it can touch you in a way that you can't express. You can think that it hasn't reached you and years later you'll find it coming out." George Harrison

[FPSHOT]

I believe it is harmless, this is what George wrote in I Me Mine;

The song is about Jpa Yoga meditation which is repetition on beads (mala) of mantras. A mantra is mystical energy encased in a sound structure, and each mantra contains within its vibrations, a certain power.
They are constructed from the 50 letters of the Sanskrit alphabat (Devanagari - language of the Gods) and they turn the mind toward concentration of the supreme releasing spiritual energy in the Chakras (storage places for vital energy) of the body.
Most mantras for Japa utilise the many names of God and the maha-mantra has been prescribed as the easiest and surest way for attaining God-Realisation in this present age. (It can also rebuild the atoms in the body and make your life sublime!)

George signs as 'Hari Bol'.

Now, reading this I don't believe George intended this first line of the lyrics as a negative element.

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Jan. 21, 1966
Reporter ; how on earth did you mannage to keep your wedding so secret?
George: simple, we didn't tell anyone.

not a negative element, of course, but not every critic has to be negative, fpshot. i agree with what ft said, that what he probably meant is you don't need to call the press to get love and inner peace, understand? it seems a very elegant critic.
and thanks for the whole yatta yatta regarding the song, i didn't know that, http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wink3.gif can actually anyone tell me when did he compose that?

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all that's left is a place dark and lonely

[This Message Has Been Edited By AmandaLennon On August 25, 2002 07:18 AM]

[FPSHOT]

My mistake, I didn't mean negative the way it may have sounded. I meant to come back to the original question.

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""Some of the happiest days of my life were spent in the studio with George."
Jeff Lynne

[Hari's Chick]

Hmmm? I didn't think it sounded negative! Thanks, too~ i very much enjoyed reading that this morning!! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif Great way to begin a day!!

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"George was the kind of guy who wasn't going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you." ~ Tom Petty