Oh Darling

 

 

This combines elements of two diary entries 74 years apart, and uses a preexisting song title as a part of the lyric. It asks, "Is is better to just "be" than to be someone?" The string quartet is a Beatles "fragrance".

7/17/1895, Cambridge (William James Correspondence)

To G. H. Howison: “How you have misunderstood the application of my word “trivial”....The word came out of one who is unfit to be a philosopher because at bottom he hates philosophy, especially at the beginning of a vacation, with the fragrance of the spruces and sweet ferns all soaking him through with the conviction that it is better to be than to define your being. I am a victim of neurasthenia and of the sense of hollowness and unreality that goes with it....”

7/17/1969 (Beatles Studio Diary)

Studio 3, Paul vocals on Oh Darling. He usually comes to the studio around 2P and has been doing many takes. Now the sessions were done individually. They were rarely together in the studio. He wants to capture a rawness before his voice changed.

[Interesting: Abbey Road evinces the feeling of warm camaraderie with everyone lovingly collaborating, but each came individually to the studio to do their parts, which is evidence that most of recorded music history is non-linear, a facet inherited from film production, where emotional valences are artificially created.].

Oh Darling (7-17) by meta4s