Water theme in MMT

[mysteryboy]

At the end of the title track of MMT, the effects on the intrumentations give me the feeling of being in a harbour at night. The clanging of the ships bells and the buoys as the water gently rocks them... the warbly sounds as if the recording was made under water. Walruses like to be under the sea. I perceived it that way the first time I heard it, many years before the repetitive water themes/clues were brought to my attention.

on edit: Does anyone percieve it that way?

[DarkHorse]

Let me refer again to the FAAB video where the Fool On the Hill scene is shown from MMT and to the left is ocean. The theory could be that Paul was driving along that long, windy road, which is by the Irish Sea, before he ran off the road and wrecked his car.

[beatlies]

The place on Abbey Road where it flows into "Here Comes the Sun King" also has a water/harbor/pond sound and feel to it, like a slow moving boat at night with cricket and frog sounds. There are bells that echo suggesting a fog-filled harbor or maybe sonar (as in a yellow submarine?) Are the frog sounds an aural pun on the dawn of the French "Sun King"?

[LOVELYRITA]

And the imagery of Faul on the beach with the dwarf, as well as the scene with Buster and Aunt Jessie on the beach....something about the water.

[mysteryboy]

Excellent obsevations all. I would also add Klaatu's Brit Humour piece "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby" lyrics to the mix, sung in a fashion that could make the singer virtually anyone:

(Act One)
Well do you get the itching to
Trek about the latitudes, you do?
Well likely you're a chip
Off old Sir Rugglesby
Well he was quite a sporting sort
Behind his cup o'tea he'd snort
I'll wager on the line
Ten thousand pounds and five
I'm the only man who'll ever get to
Hell and come back alive

(Act Two)
Now in the fall of forty-nine
He skipped across the seven brine this time
Looking for a berth in naval history
T'was never heard nor seen agian
Oficially presumed as dead
But the words he left behind
Still echoed 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

(Intermission)

(Act Three)
...then one night
While tripping down the English coast
The moon was whiter than a ghost, almost
When I heard a voice yell through a megaphone
And there upon the midnight sea
A signal lamp signalled me
I could feel me blood run cold
As the message did decode
I'm the only man who's ever been to
Hell and come back alive
Well who else could it be
But good old Rugglesby?
He's the only man could ever get to
Hell and come back alive
Yes he's the only man who's
(He's the only one)
Ever gone and been to
(Who's been and gone)
To hell and come back
Hell and come back
Hell and come back alive

(The End

[LOVELYRITA]

Sir Paul = Sir Rugglesby

Excellent find mysteryboy! Shall we say that fits him to a t.

How many have been to hell and back...come back alive...the "resurrection theory" someone pointed out on another thread regarding the meaning of Hey Jude....the newly risen Paul...

....Did Sir St. Paul have a water baptism, was he washed in the rivers of the Euphrates and Jordan , or perhaps the Ghangis to become the new a better man with the little help from his plastic surgeon friends?

[lili]

I think that Klaatu is purposely singing about two things at once. They're really talking about Bill, I'm sure of it. Especially in Act 3.
Maybe Bill was in the navy ? That would explain his reference to Admiral Halsey.

[LOVELYRITA]

And the fascination with submarines.....yellow ones to boot.....