You know the Beatles song come together? I thought it was about sex

[RobertaBeckett]

what do you think ?

I've read that in many of their songs they wrote them with double meanings, so they could be about sex (or drugs or whatever) but can also be looked at having an more innocent explanation.

But yes I think when they wrote it they were relating it to sex, seems that way to me.

Yes.
Can't think what that particular part of the lyrics could translate as.

Oh good glad it’s not just me 😂fell down a TikTok wormhole

now trying to suss out the meaning of simply red holding back the years

I thought that was a song about looking back in life and how fast it had gone
but some say it’s about mick being abandoned by his mother
🥲

Oh no now that’s lead me onto Rodney’s wedding in only fools and horses

bloody hell

i think I’d better go to bed !! Or illl be up all night

"I didn’t realise what it was about until I’d finished it. It’s about that moment where you know you have to leave home and make your mark, but the outside world is scary. So you’re holding back the years." - Mick

Holding Back the Years - Simply Red

There you go :)

No I don't think it's about sex. What makes you think that? I don't think the lyrics actually matter on this one, it's a Lennon nonsense song with a great tune

People have tried hard to find meaning it in from each verse being a description of one of them, unity, politics, and many more reasons but it's nonsense from start to finish. As Lennons favourite childhood book was Alice in Wonderland, it's hard not to see the influence in all his "nonsense" songs

Yes, it is about sex.

Holding Back the Years actually refers to “Holding Back the Ears” which happens when thighs are clamped around your partners bonce. Mick was pure filth. How many women did he reckoned he “bedded”? Loads. Not bad for a
scruffy thin Benny Hill lookalike.

I think a lot of the Beatles songs are ‘nonsense songs’.

Bryan Adam’s Summer of 69 isn’t about the summer of 69 though. Lots of songs are about sex.

I think people tried to make the Beatles songs deeper than they really were. It worked for them. I find most of their songs simple. I’m not a fan.

I do too and people turn themselves inside out attributing meaning to them. There are plenty of Beatles songs about sex too, they weren't shy about it so why change that for this one.

And yes Summer of 69 is definitely about sex

What!? Summer of 69!? I have to go listen...

Edit: Listened. Nah, you're all projecting. Beyond the number 69 the lyrics are all pretty wholesome! 😛

Bless your innocence. 😇 😝

Absolutely agree about The Beatles not being shy about songs referring to or about sex; a great example of that being “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” from The White Album. Speaking of that album, “Happiness Is A Warm Gun,” is another example.

OP and anyone else who may be intrigued, there’s a fair bit to read online about ”Come Together” with quotes from John himself. The Beatles Bible website is worth checking out or perhaps start off looking up info about a guy called Timothy Leary, who had asked John to write a campaign song for him as Timothy wanted to stand in the election for Governor of California. Timothy had a planned campaign slogan of “come together - join the party.” That’s the origins of the song’s title anyhow.

I think Come Together is more a mix of nonsense lyrics with references to The Beatles. For instance the lyric, “He bag production:” John and Yoko had a PR company Bag Productions and that was a link to the “bagism” concept John & Yoko came up with as part of the peace campaign.

i don’t know but it was my dads alarm ring tone when it was time for his blood sugars when he was 75. my friend was round one day and she just cracked up. my dad loved the beatles and i can’t listen to them anymore without welling up.

Just to go back to simply red for a sec

well can someone explain what this lyric means ?
what is pater
and mater ?

Strangled by the wishes of pater
Hoping for the arms of mater
Get to me the sooner or later

Ohhh I’ve just googled and it means pater father
mater mother
🥲🥲

I take it as
Constrained by his father's expectations
Worried he'll miss his mother/ is looking for somebody he can love like his mother
But then I've always interpreted it a bit literally it seems! 😁

Same ! I swear im a bit neurodivergent

You cannot be a bit neurodivergent

Oh well what’s it called when your on the lower end of the spectrum ?

Yes, those lyrics were definitely about the year 1969 - when 1959-born Bryan and his other 10yo pals were doing things like driving to the evening movie and getting married.

Of course that's what it means!!

I think Come Together could possibly go either way - either about sex or about people gathering supportively as a community - until the gavel-smashing line 'Over me'!

The “over me” bit has always smashed the gavel.

Songs aren't sworn autobiographical oaths!

The lyrics really can be taken any which way. Also I simply don't think 69s are fun enough to warrant a song. They've a novelty factor but really if you want a good cock-sucking or pussy-licking you gotta focus. Maybe BA loves a 69 but I'm skeptical. They're like Pez: sure it's fun to flip back the head and munch the candy* but if you want a proper tasty sweet you go for something else.

*Not a single part of that is a euphemism. I genuinely meant only what I wrote!

And discussing 69s on the internet with a stranger and debating something that I don't really feel bothered about is a sign that I've been on my phone way too much today. Goodnight! 😂