Lili wrote:
"About Ruby Tuesday, after reading the lyrics, I don't see how it definitely relates to Paul at all.""Definitely" is a pretty tall order, but here are some definite "maybe's":
In "I am the Walrus", John gives "Tuesday" hell for having been stupid:
"Stupid
bloody[/b] Tuesday, man, you've been a naughty boy;
You let your face grow long."
("Paul is very bloody" in "Blue Jay Way")
We know "Paul's" face grew long when Bill took over,
but this is probably Paul being scolded by John for letting a situation develop where he had
to be replaced. John doesn't want Paul to be replaced!
In "She Came in Through the Bath Room Window" we have:
"Sunday's on the phone to Monday;
Tuesday's on the phone to me."
Now who is singing this song (in terms of whose point of view the lyrics reflect)?
"And so I quit the police department"
It's Bill. So Tuesday's on the phone to Bill.
Paul is on the phone to Bill (presumably telling him he has to fill in.)
So the evidence suggests Tuesday is Paul.
Now in Ruby Tuesday, we clearly have a reference to a female, but perhaps more importantly,
we have someone who's on the move:
"While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and goes"Here today; gone tomorrow.
What else do we know about her?
"Theres no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams
And you will lose your mind.
Aint life unkind?"She's trying to catch her dreams before it's too late,
but "dying all the time."
There's a reference to life being unkind, and a caution about losing her mind.
If Paul felt guilt for Sylvie having been killed; if he felt he was responsible for her death,
even if he didn't pull the trigger, push her off the wall, or whatever, would not the guilt
be "killing him" (so that he was "dying all the time")? Might he not, in true Gemini fashion, have
wanted to sample everything there is in life, having more than one career?
And felt time to do so was limited?
And if he felt responsible for Sylvie's death ("Ain't life unkind?"), might he not have sought to live,
for Sylvie, the life she might otherwise have lived, trying to live her dreams?
If he was in trouble with the law, for being a suspect in Sylvie's death, might he not be on the move?
Might he not be "On the Run"?
(Pink Floyd song)Then there's this:
"She would never say where she came fromYesterday don't matter if its gone"She would never say she came from being Paul McCartney, if that's who she'd been.
"Yesterday", Paul's biggest hit, "gone" in the sense that he was no longer with the Beatles.
It wouldn't matter if he wrote it; if he was no longer "Paul", he wouldn't be recognized as it's author.
Then, regarding the name "Ruby", that name comes up in Neil Young's "Cowgirl in the Sand":
"Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band begun to rust (What band? Her wedding band, or a rock band?)After all the sin we've had
I was hopin' that we'd turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you ('so many' love this person)Is it the same?
It's the woman in you that makes you want
to play this game.[/b]
(Ruby's playing at being a woman; his "female side" being revealed.)In any case, she's in the dust (dead), just like "Tuesday" McCartney.
I think Ruby Tuesday has
everything to do with Paul, but then, that's just my opinion.
Still, that's where the clues seem to point, imo.
I know that you, Lili, feel that Paul would never masquerade as a woman, because he wasn't
bisexual or a transvestite, but this situation has nothing to do with that, imo.
I think there were two motivating factors, both noble:
1.) Keeping his identity hidden for the sake of preserving his life!
2.) A desire to live, for Sylvie, the life she would have lived;
he wanted to allow her disembodied spirit to have an Earthly existence through himself, imo.
The trip to the Maharishi may have been for more than just for having Paul's spirit being "put into" Bill,
(as it was awkwardly phrased at TKIN).
It was probably also very much for Paul to learn, by way of the others,
how to accept Sylvie's spirit into his own; or at the very least to channel her.
That's where "Oblahdih/Obladah", "Cry Baby Cry" and "Honey Pie" and "Wild Honey Pie" all fit into the puzzle,
in my estimation: Paul trying to be Sylvie.
I don't think Paul was dead when he left the Beatles.
That's why the "1,2,3,4,5,6,7...all good children go to heaven" on Abbey Road is so light-hearted.
He wasn't really dead; just hiding out....at the ranch the Manson family later occupied?
(I suspect so. "Desperado" and other references.)
Among many other places in the American southwest, perhaps, but not really
really dead.
"Time To Hide" (Wings) :
(Note the introduction.)www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Ma1zouseo&mode=related&search=
* This photo might have been tampered with. However, you can still see the pain in Paul's eyes.
Paul's unhappiness is obvious.
Read his body language.
