"The song beatifully blends McCartney's "Soldier Boy Kisses girl leaves behind a tragic world....you can hear the people say...people say..." with Lennon's "people say we got it made, don't they know we're so afraid..." And of course McCartney's "soldier boy ksses girl..." blends magically with Lennon's "just a boy and little girl, trying to change the whole wide world..." Both songs work so well together here it seems as if they where written together"
HI folks,
This is the last thing and then I got to fly. The song, "Listen to What the Man Said" is poke at John's "tragic world" that he created for himself and Yoko by going against Nixon and the Vietnam war and striving for world peace. Not that Paul McCartney is knocking his friend for striving for world peace; but rather McCartney is saying that he has a different approach to love. McCartney is saying "for love is fine for all we know...Oh yes indeed, we knowt that people will find a way to go... won't you listen John my friend to what the man said?"
The difference in my opinion between the two genius songwriters is that John's approach had been to direct humanity as a whole find peace and love, whereas Paul's approach, is for the human being to look inside himself/herself for that peace and love. A good example of this is McCartney's new Deep Deep Feeling. Of course this is being general, because Lennon wrote some very deep introspective songs helping the individual find himself/herself, and of course McCartney writes some of the best anthems to rally the people. But the point I am trying to make is that the two men gernerally approach love from different polarities. And because reality/universe/multiverse is made up of an equalization of the positive and the negative, as represented in nature as inside/outside, male/female, night/day, hello/goodbye, up/down, fast/slow, stay/go away, etc, when two opposing poles lock into a hyperoneness, we are reaching a quantum effect that aligns with the Universe. Some might call this magic. But regardless it is a form of relative perfection.
The mash up mystery "Soldier Boy" magically keeps the message of McCartney's original song together by John admitting his "Isolation" from going up againt the "Man" and creating his tragic world where he was being deported and attacked. Becauce one soldier boy and his girl CAN change the whole wide world. Nixon was finally disposed and the war ended. This is the power of the individual that Paul talks about too, except McCartney seems to strive to help one person at a time become human. The point being is that a tree for example in nature grows up toward the sky as well as downward with roots, both approaches are necessary in order to maintain life... And when man finds this groove, it gets groovy.
Peace and Love Everybody!