"Masterpieces of Cathartic Suffering"
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Thank you, Adriana
I like to rome through the back pages now and then, it's fun 
Also searched for those particular threads I liked, haven't found them yet, but still have hope 
Was gonna nominate them or vote for them rather, in David Mitchelson's competition thingie -
you can't nominate or vote for yourself.
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Those I'm looking for weren't started by me. I enjoyed writing on them, and reading the other entertaining, imaginative contributions besides mine.
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"Too Much Rain" "Don't Let It Bring You Down" (might not be its actual title) It's on the same album as "Morse Moose and the Grey Goose"
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Not really surprising. Most of Paul's songs have a melancholy and plaintive air. A mixture of chord progression and voice, it's often why his songs aren't covered very well. Personally I would point to I'm Carrying or even With a Little Luck as the most typical (post-Beatles) examples.
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Although he is always pointing thumbs up at the camera and smiling, if you peek at some of the lines, Paul lets us know he is human like everybody and has his days of fear and doubts and even arguments with his spouse. The secret ingredient of the McCartney magic for me, is he always tempers this melancholy with a silver lining. These are some (out of many) where I feel he lets us have a glimpse of his other side. No one on the party line No one seems to need a dime No one even knows That I'm feeling this way No one seems to need my vote No one has to change a note No one here to hold my coat Oh, what a day and: I saw you hiding from a flock of paparazzi You were hoping You were hoping that the ground would swallow you I saw you hiding there and: Single pigeon through the railing Did she throw you out? Sunday morning fight about Saturday night Single seagull gliding over regent's park canal Do you need a pal for a minute or two / you do? Me too, me too, me too / I'm a lot like you When I worked in a record store I was talking to a customer who asked me who my favorite artist is. When I told him it was Paul McCartney he said he was more into John Lennon because he was "deeper." I thought "good grief - here we go again" but I didn't try to explain. I figured he could just go thinking whatever he wants. There is so much more there than "pizza and fairy tales." Someday I think people will realize this.
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One song that has a cathartic effect for me, which may seem unexpected, is "Hope of Deliverance." It came out right after the death of someone very close to me, and the chorus really got to me. When it will be right I don't know What it will be like I don't know We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us That's pretty much what my life felt like at that moment.
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↑ I always think of that one during elections. Still hoping and waiting.
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For no one is as bleak as a song can get. It's amazing that in his mid twenties he could write For no one and Eleanor Rigby on the same album.
