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Playing at being ignorant of how she has led the man on, she goes to bed without him and he goes to sleep alone in the bathtub.

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They talk, she gets the man’s hopes up and then ruins them by going to bed (alone, without him).

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She asks him to stay, but as there was no chair he assumed that there was a little more than simple table chat on the cards.

Perhaps a hip pad with set-in floor seating area like below.

Perhaps there wasn’t a chair but there was a bed, heightening his expectation of sex. John, as usual, is being indirect.

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A dry-witted story of a man who failed to charm his love interest into bed, and how he got his revenge in an extreme (and sociopathic) way.

Norwegian Wood is my song completely. It was about an affair I was having. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn’t want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I’d always had some kind of affairs going, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn’t tell. But I can’t remember any specific woman it had to do with.
John Lennon, interview with David Sheff

The song is known for its Indian influences. Hindu culture was very popular in the sixties, especially sitar music. This is the first recording of sitar in a Beatles record. George Harrison found an old sitar in a closet in Abbey Road studios and the band decided to use it for the song. Harrison would continue to play sitar for the next few years, even studying for a time with famed maestro Ravi Shankar.

Haruki Murakami, one of the most influential Japanese authors of our time, wrote a book inspired by this song and named it “Norwegian Wood.”

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McCartney wrote the song about a meter maid who is speculated to have been named Meta Davies who gave him a parking ticket outside of the recording studio where most of Sgt. Pepper was recorded, Abbey Road Studios Two. When asked about why he called her Rita, McCartney responded with “Well, she looked like a Rita to me.” (Clayson, 2003)

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A lighthearted, fairly meaningless blues jam by Paul McCartney.

“Get Back” went through numerous iterations, many of which are publicly available. The two most noteworthy versions are the single version and the album version. In one of its earlier forms, “Get Back” was a satirical political tune, with lyrics including “too many Pakistanis living in a council flat”. McCartney later explained these lyrics by saying:

When we were doing Let It Be, there were a couple of verses to “Get Back” which were actually not racist at all — they were anti-racist. There were a lot of stories in the newspapers then about Pakistanis crowding out flats — you know, living 16 to a room or whatever. So in one of the verses of “Get Back,” which we were making up on the set of Let It Be, one of the outtakes has something about ‘too many Pakistanis living in a council flat’ – that’s the line. Which to me was actually talking out against overcrowding for Pakistanis… If there was any group that was not racist, it was the Beatles.

John Lennon believe that “Get Back” was aimed at his lover, Yoko Ono, who had begun accompanying him to many of the Beatle’s recording sessions. Paul adamantly denies that this song was about Ono, but he’s admitted that her presence during recording sessions was slightly upsetting to him at the time.

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Alex Turner physically indicated this line while performing Pretty Visitors at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in New York City. http://youtu.be/a_sehl4QdEg?t=2m7s

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This song from Humbug is all about the band’s own experience of success, and is absolutely full to burst with Alex Turner’s trademark obtuse metaphors.

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The second single from Arctic Monkeys' debut album is about prostitution around the studio they were recording in in Sheffield. It was a considerable commercial success, scoring the band their second UK #1 single after “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” earlier that year.

The music video is the most literal they’ve done – a far cry from the videos they did with Richard Ayoade.

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He longs to be in “the deep end” of a relationship, and craves all of the problems and joys that it brings.

He’s trying to calm down and put it in a more laid back way to save face, saying he just needs to know and either have it all or nothing, as opposed to being so open like he just was.

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The “deep end” could be Alex’s allegory for what lies below a woman’s waistline. That is why he keeps imagining meetings and wishing away entire lifetimes and it’s unfair that he isn’t misbehaving with her.

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