Tuesday, August 30, 2011

A Interesting Song from Madeline Bell

I mentioned in my post of August 10th. the possibility that Paul had a relationship with the American-turned-English soul singer Madeline Bell.  I found a song she sang for her first album, Bell's A-Poppin that I (intuitively) feel was about Paul.   The album was released in the UK in 1967 and the song has the heavy-handed orchestration that was typical of the post mid-1960's B/Featles.  Listen to the song on Youtube at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTzgHIUZ81w .  Here are the lyrics:

     Beat the clock.
     Try to make it stop.
     Before time can draw the line
     And cut you down to her size.
     Beat the clock.
     Try to make it stop.
     Tell me how long will it take
     Before you finally realize
     That the carnival is over
     And you've seen much better days.
     You have wasted too much time
     In too many different ways.
     You denied a possibility of
     Growing old.
     You are filled with false humility.
     Oh, much too bold.

     Beat the clock.
     Try to make it stop.
     Tell me how long will it take
     Before you finally realize
     That you're in this game the same as me
     Although you think you're not.
     When you try to lie above it all
     You get  just what you got.
     Seems to me you're slipping
     You seem slightly unnerved.
     When you finally see yourself
     You get what you deserve.

Bell sings the song in a such a clipped, tight way it definitely seems to be a song she was aiming at someone.  That someone could have been Paul.

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