Faul's songs

[B]

I had started a thread about Faul's songs at TKIN just before I quit there.
Many of them contain clues about Paul's disappearence, and the greater mysteries associated
with it, imo. The purpose of this thread will be to look at Faul lyrics, and determine what they may
be revealing. Please join in!
Shall we get started? ;D

SIMPLE AS THAT
"Paul McCartney"

I know it isnt easy to refuse;
A lot of thoughts are flying thru your head.
Tell me this, before you have to choose,
Would you rather be alive or dead?
It's as simple as that -
Would you rather be alive or dead?
Its as simple as that;
Its so simple it makes you wanna cry.

They ask you if you wanna join in.
You linger for a minute, or so.
Well now's a perfect time to begin.
Are you gonna say 'yes' or 'no'?

Its as simple as that
Are you gonna say yes or no?
If s as simple as that, its so simple
It makes you wanna cry

And if you love your life,
Everybody will love you too.
Yes if you love your life,
Everybody will love you too.

It's harder when you start to get round.
I want you to remember what I said.
I know you never like to let them down,
But would you rather be alive or dead?

Its as simple as that
Would you rather be alive or dead?
Its as simple as that, if s so simple
It makes me wanna cry

Yes if you love your life
Everybody will love you too
And if you love your life
Everybody will love you too

Would you rather be alive or dead?
Would you rather be alive or dead?
Would you?

Its as simple as that
Its as simple as that
Its as simple as that

Yes if you love your life
Everybody will love you too
And if you love your life
Everybody will love you too

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipes_of_Peace

In 1993, Pipes of Peace was remastered and reissued on CD as part of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series, with the previously unreleased "Twice in a Lifetime" (the title song for a 1985 film), his 1984 hit from the Rupert Bear project, "We All Stand Together", and "Simple as That", released in 1986 on an anti-heroin charity album - all as bonus tracks.



Sounds to me like an invitation for JPM to join Faul in composing or performing songs. So, presumably
he'd have to be alive, unless Faul is issuing the invitation to "the spirit of Paul", which he may well be.

[MikeNL]

there are so much more faul songs that are about death and JPM and stuff it really is amazing...

[B]

"Twice in a Lifetime"
McCartney
(McCartney Unreleased/Alternate)

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zka1PMcj1xY

Now I know that it can easily happen
To someone like me;
I don't want to step on anybody's toes (ahem)
Who knows how to find love?
Think before you give your answer.
Who knows what a mystery may bring?

Once in a life I'm a lucky man
If I can find the kind of love
That's gonna last for me

Twice in a lifetime
Is one of those unspoken dreams
We usually reserve for fantasy

Who knows how we find love
Stop before you give your answer:
Who knows when a mystery begins?

I know, I know
I know because it's happening to me
I know, I know

Twice in a lifetime
Is one of those unspoken dreams
We usually reserve for fantasy

Who knows how we find love
Stop before you give your answer
Who knows when a mystery begins

I know, I know
I know because it's happening to me

[iameye]

letterb1 said:

"Twice in a Lifetime"
McCartney
(McCartney Unreleased/Alternate)

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zka1PMcj1xY

Now I know that it can easily happen
To someone like me;
I don't want to step on anybody's toes (ahem)
Who knows how to find love?
Think before you give your answer.
Who knows what a mystery may bring?

Once in a life I'm a lucky man
If I can find the kind of love
That's gonna last for me

Twice in a lifetime
Is one of those unspoken dreams
We usually reserve for fantasy

Who knows how we find love
Stop before you give your answer:
Who knows when a mystery begins?

I know, I know
I know because it's happening to me
I know, I know

Twice in a lifetime
Is one of those unspoken dreams
We usually reserve for fantasy

Who knows how we find love
Stop before you give your answer
Who knows when a mystery begins

I know, I know
I know because it's happening to me

it's really not that deep....

[B]

admittedly....

Maybe this is more substantive:

Used To Be Bad
McCartney

(in the medley) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYecVFEsd0

I used to be bad
But I don't have to be bad no more
Yeah, I used to be bad
But I don't have to be bad no more
Well ain't no doubt about it, people
It's something you can't ignore

Well, I ain't good looking
People, you know i've been up on a shelf
Yes, I know I ain't good looking
And I've been put up on the shelf
But I got a sweet disposition
I like to enjoy myself

I used to be bad
But I don't have to be bad no more
Yeah, I used to be bad
But I don't have to be bad no more
You know I learned my lesson
A long, long time ago

Well, no matter what you say
No matter what you do
You got one life to live
It's gonna come back home to you
I used to be bad
But I don't have to be bad no more
Yeah, people, I learned my lesson
A long, long time ago

The good lord made this world
And everything that's in it
The way I see it, baby
You got to love it to the limit
Oh yes, now people
It's something you can't ignore
Yes I used to be bad
But I ain't gonna be bad no more

Well, the way you treat me darling
Made me understand
Never quit you baby
I'm gonna love you to the end
Yeah, I used to be bad
But I ain't goinna be bad no more
Yes, I learned my lesson
A long, long time ago

Yes, I learned my lesson
A long, long time ago
yes, I learned my lesson
You're gonna reap just what you sow

[B]

I'd never even heard of this until tonight. Unreleased 'McCartney' song.
There have to be significant clues in this one! (I'm pondering how it fits in.
Feel free to join in the surmising! ;D)

Cage
('Paul McCartney')

hear it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTuNECu1EK4&NR=1

Ow
Aaah, aaah
Ah ah

Emotional moments, you left in a rage
But if you could love me now, I wouldn't be in a cage
Provisional license, I'm under arrest
But if you could get me out, I'd like to take another test

Aah

I've been said to tell you
That the man you were with last night
Is feeling sorry, sorry
'Cause he told me to tell you
That he hardly ever lies
But he lied to you last night

He didn't mean it, no
Said he didn't mean it, no
He didn't mean it, no
Said he didn't mean it, no

I've been said to tell you
That the man you were with last night
Is feeling lonely only for you
He told me to tell you
That he hardly ever cries
But he cried for you last night, ooh

He didn't mean it, no
Said he didn't mean it, no
He didn't mean it, no
Said he didn't mean it, no

Emotional moment, you left in a rage!
But if you could love me now, I wouldn't be in a cage.
Dramatic performance, direct from the stage
But if you could get me out, I won't be in a cage

An obvious jail reference.

[iameye]

Or it's about a dream, your dream, last night.

[B]

Once Upon A Long Ago
'McCartney'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCxTL_XpNzI

Picking up scales and broken chords
Puppy dog tails in the House of Lords
Tell me darling
What can it mean?

Making up moons in a minor key
What have those tunes got to do with me?
Tell me darling
Where have you been?

Once upon a long ago
Children searched for treasure
Nature's plan went hand in hand
With pleasure
Such pleasure.

Blowing balloons on a windy day
Desolate dunes with a lot to say
Tell me darling
What have you seen?

Once upon a long ago
Children searched for treasure
Nature's plan went hand in hand
With pleasure
My pleasure.

Playing guitars on an empty stage
Counting the bars of an iron cage
Tell me darling
What can it mean?

Picking up scales and broken chords
Puppy dog tails in the House of Lords
Help me darling
What does it mean?

Once upon a long ago....

[B]

Nothing suspect here; just one I'd never heard.

When The Wind Is Blowing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH0BKKsk2Uk&NR=1

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I Want You To Fly
Paul McCartney

hear it/see it: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jgrW9xczIPo

I want you to fly
I want you to grow
I'd like you to get back
Whatever you lose.

I want you to learn
What you want to know
I'd like you to follow
The road that you choose.

Ooh At the same time
I wanna hold on
Don't want you to go
I like to be near you
Whatever you do

I want us to hide (Ooh)
I want to lay low (Ooh)
Doesn't make sense but (Ooh)
I wanna be you (Ooh)

I wanna be you (At the)
I want to be you (Same)
I want to be you (Time)
I wanna be you (At)
I wanna be you (The)
I wanna be you (Same)
I (Time)

I want us to hide
I want to lay low
But doens't make sense but
I wanna be you

I want you to fly

So the cage is open
Now we've taken flight
Rising and falling like snow
In the night.

I'm feeling wild; windy
Hidden between my palms
I uncup my hands, and the bird
Flies out

Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh

So the cage is open (Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh)
Now we've taken flight
Rising and falling like snow
In the night.

Rising and falling like snow
In the night.

[B]

This one is a bit unusual in that it was a hit for the Everly Brothers, and not done by anyone else,
that I know of. (The guy in the red shirt looks like Doc! ;D)

ON THE WINGS OF A NIGHTINGALE
(Paul McCartney)
The Everly Brothers - 1984

hear it/see it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlQjYDvHGxM

When I love, I get a feeling
Like I'm traveling through the sky
On the wings of a nightingale
As I ride, my head is reeling
And I don't even wonder why
On the wings of a nightingale I'll fly

I'll go land and sea,
I'll be thinking of you and me
Couldn't ask for a better place to be
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening to me

So hold my hand, I got a feeling
That the journey has just begun
On the wings of a nightingale
And if you like we'll fly together
To the land of eternal sun
On the wings of a nightingale of love

I'll go land and sea,
I'll be thinking of you and me
Couldn't ask for a better place to be
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening to me

When I love, I get a feeling
Like I'm traveling through the sky
On the wings of a nightingale
On the wings of a nightingale
Oooh oooh oooh
On the wings of a nightingale

[iameye]

maybe it is a veiled allusion to Florence and Da Vinci, and his flying machine.

[B]

Well the car is reborn, for what that's worth.

Here's more on Da Vinci and his flying machine:
sped2work.tripod.com/davinci.html

[iameye]

car is reborn? I don't understand....

[B]

In the video. It's reinCARnated. At a "Flying A" service station. (01:28).
And I'm trying to get the connection of "Nightingale" as in Florence, as in "the lady of the lamp",
because she (Florence Nightingale), tended to the wounded at night, - with Aurora, which almost,
but doesn't quite, work because: What does the nurse have to do with the Northern lights?
Unless it's the JET! The stealthy aircraft Aurora. Which...replaces the SR-71 Blackbird just like
Faul replaces Paul! And a nightingale is a bird you don't see when it's singing at night!
And Florence Nightingale was one of the first recording artists!
(Go to the "A rare 1890 recording of Nightingale's voice" at the bottom of the wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale )

The lady of the lamp
www.todayinsci.com/stories2/story020.htm

Surely that must be it!

[Doc]

Apr 13, 2008 20:47:37 GMT -5 B said:

This one is a bit unusual in that it was a hit for the Everly Brothers, and not done by anyone else,
that I know of. (The guy in the red shirt looks like Doc! ;D)

ON THE WINGS OF A NIGHTINGALE
(Paul McCartney)
The Everly Brothers - 1984

hear it/see it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlQjYDvHGxM

When I love, I get a feeling
Like I'm traveling through the sky
On the wings of a nightingale
As I ride, my head is reeling
And I don't even wonder why
On the wings of a nightingale I'll fly

I'll go land and sea,
I'll be thinking of you and me
Couldn't ask for a better place to be
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening to me

So hold my hand, I got a feeling
That the journey has just begun
On the wings of a nightingale
And if you like we'll fly together
To the land of eternal sun
On the wings of a nightingale of love

I'll go land and sea,
I'll be thinking of you and me
Couldn't ask for a better place to be
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening
Oh, I can feel something happening to me

When I love, I get a feeling
Like I'm traveling through the sky
On the wings of a nightingale
On the wings of a nightingale
Oooh oooh oooh
On the wings of a nightingale

First of all, great song, really good job on Bill's part. Or did James Paul write it?
It seems like the country/folk tradition that maybe "I've Just Seen a Face", "I'll Follow the Sun" etc., genuinely appalachian. Very nice.

Second, them boys can sing! They seem to be the precursor in a away to the Beatles.
One facet of the Beatles. (They had so many....)

I like their stuff. I never investigated it before but this has drawn me all over youtube listening to their tunes.

Third, looks like who? I am flattered, but I wish! He's waaayyyyy handsomer than I could
hope to have been but I will say that maybe in common we share a certain quality that I think of as "Southern Face" more so when my weight is under control, also my hair falls the same way though mine has lost the thickness and luster of former years. Those guys were in their mid forties in that video, so, yea, certain things yea so thanks.

I don't allow photographs anymore whenever I appear in public and am currently studying the art of make-up and the application of wig pieces and latex appliances.
I turn 51484339 in two weeks and each year brings more cosmetic panic. Call it vanity, call it neuroses, or just call it living in a dream world.
I once dreamed of being a child star; I wanted to star in the planned sequel to Mary Poppins, or "Once, Twice, Three Times a Nanny." I wanted to play the Banks children's nasty cousin Tommy. But alas Disney dropped the project and I've nursed a secret hope, all these years, that if I could just hold it together, I wouldn't get too old looking to still play the part of the 11 year old monster when they finally decide to go into production.

I see now my plans are hopeless, my dreams dashed to pieces. If I was to play it now, they would have to shoot me through a pillow-top mattress and a jar of Vaseline.
My voice would have to be overdubbed by a (*sob*) younger actor.

H*ll, the only way is if they made my part along the lines of "Baby jane." I could sing "I've Written a Letter to Nanny" in clown white and drag to a very mature Julie Andrews.

Grotesque, admittedly, but I think it's freakish enough to garner an audience. A very sick, campy audience. But maybe that's JUST the audience for me............

[B]

Doc wrote:
"But alas Disney dropped the project and I've nursed a secret hope, all these years...."

That's it! The connection! The Nurse! Doc, who is a star in every sense, but is secretly nursing on the side!
By George I think I've got it! Or is Doc a nurse who drives a '57 Chevy and is a star on the side?
(Sigh) I'll never figure this out....

[Doc]

Apr 13, 2008 23:17:25 GMT -5 B said:

Doc wrote:
"But alas Disney dropped the project and I've nursed a secret hope, all these years...."

That's it! The connection! The Nurse! Doc, a star in every sense, but secretly nursing on the side!
By George I think he's got it! Or is Doc a nurse who drives '57 Chevys and is a star on the side?
(Sigh) I'll never figure this out....

Just to prove that I'm a real sport in all this, and would NEVER ask anyone to out themselves in a big way unless I, too, was willing to share in the utter humiliation, here is my personal tribute to Bette Davis. At an impromptu recording session at a friend's house one night (it was 3 A.M. and we were toasted to the tits) THIS remarkable
piece of audio, er, emerged. make of it what you will-----I wrestled with "putting this out there", but at my point in life vanity is futile, so here it is, all hanging out.

Enjoy.

Click the selection "Letter to Daddy." It helps if you are having a drink or two. Maybe two. Click at your own risk.

www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=4407&alid=1568


The one marked "horror" is a silly medley I did for a show. But it in no way hits the zenith of horror like the other one. Oh, ho ho no. No way. Eeeee---yes. Why am I doing this? *Sigh* Regret will come in the morning........

[B]

Well Doc, you've been spared. When I tried to play it, the following message came up (I swear):

"This clip cannot be played. It contains unexpected data and may be corrupt."

May be? Geez they make smart computers these days! ;D

[iameye]

Apr 13, 2008 23:06:21 GMT -5 B said:

In the video. It's reinCARnated. At a "Flying A" service station. (01:28).
And I'm trying to get the connection of "Nightingale" as in Florence, as in "the lady of the lamp",
because she (Florence Nightingale), tended to the wounded at night, - with Aurora, which almost,
but doesn't quite, work because: What does the nurse have to do with the Northern lights?
Unless it's the JET! The stealthy aircraft Aurora. Which...replaces the SR-71 Blackbird just like
Faul replaces Paul! And a nightingale is a bird you don't see when it's singing at night!
And Florence Nightingale was one of the first recording artists!
(Go to the "A rare 1890 recording of Nightingale's voice" at the bottom of the wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale )

The lady of the lamp
www.todayinsci.com/stories2/story020.htm

Surely that must be it!

written byCF kettering, as in Memorial sloan...........(where neil died) interesting, he has GM connection also...

[Doc]

Now, having already thoroughly derailed this very fine thread, I feel that, besides apologizing, the only other thing I can truly do to redeem myself is provide this golden image of Davis, which must be studied for other, smaller, hidden images, just like the White Album poster or maybe the back of the Sgt. Pepper CD. The only clue I will give is
that if the photo were mirror-printed, it would look just as bad.




Now, I leave this thread, entrust it back into the hands of Letter B and his very keen observations about Paul's lyrics.

[Doc]

Apr 13, 2008 23:36:17 GMT -5 B said:

Well Doc, you've been spared. When I tried to play it, the following message came up (I swear):

"This clip cannot be played. It contains unexpected data and may be corrupt."

May be? Geez they make smart computers these days! ;D

Unexpected data? Well, I've always tried to foment my share of surprises but this is ridiculous.

Smarter? Smarter than me tonight, anyways.........

[B]

Well I see Phil Everly Brother in the upper left hand corner.....

[iameye]

Apr 13, 2008 23:06:21 GMT -5 B said:

In the video. It's reinCARnated. At a "Flying A" service station. (01:28).
And I'm trying to get the connection of "Nightingale" as in Florence, as in "the lady of the lamp",
because she (Florence Nightingale), tended to the wounded at night, - with Aurora, which almost,
but doesn't quite, work because: What does the nurse have to do with the Northern lights?
Unless it's the JET! The stealthy aircraft Aurora. Which...replaces the SR-71 Blackbird just like
Faul replaces Paul! And a nightingale is a bird you don't see when it's singing at night!
And Florence Nightingale was one of the first recording artists!
(Go to the "A rare 1890 recording of Nightingale's voice" at the bottom of the wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale )

The lady of the lamp
www.todayinsci.com/stories2/story020.htm

Surely that must be it!

blackbird singing in the dead of night



well, the aurora deal is a little bit more complicated than that...you've got the astronomical version:



Auroras (North/South Polar Lights; or Aurora, sing.: aurora) are natural colored light displays, which are usually observed in the night sky, particularly in the polar zone. The aurorae typically occur in the Ionosphere. Some scientists call them "polar auroras" (or "aurorae polares"). In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. It often appears as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the sun was rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis is also called the northern polar lights, as it is only visible in the North sky from the Northern Hemisphere. The aurora borealis most often occurs from September to October and from March to April. The Cree call this phenomenon the Dance of the Spirits.
Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis/southern polar lights, has similar properties. Australis is the Latin word for "of the South".


but the interesting connection is all three: mythology, astronomy and the golden dawn


red and yellow, crimson and gold

lady of the lamp

Florence

da vinci


..............of the south, Susana. remember the Susanna post? that you hated? well, it works in here w/ aurora also...and don't forget susana's pass out there in Callifornia....

it's late, though
later on this

[Doc]

Apr 14, 2008 0:04:36 GMT -5 B said:

Well I see Phil Everly Brother in the upper left hand corner.....

all i need to do is lose 35 pounds, let my hair grow out, darken it a little, rinse the gold-red out of it, lay in the tanning booth a while, do some facial exercises/grimaces, get a lipo-neck tightening, and practice relaxing my always too tight mouth, and voila.
Maybe some latex in certain corners. And cotton behind the upper molars. He's taller. I'll need lifts. And, oh yea, the wig has to go...

[B]

Nah, none of that is necessary. He looks like you these days, and vice versa.
Say....are you his clone?

Interesting post, Iameye.