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Beatles - Blackbird Lyrics Meaning

Written by Andrew Mclaughlin — 1 Views
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Jul 23rd 2008!⃝

Since it's already been established earlier that Blackbird was deliberately used so that it could apply to everyone, my interpretation would be how it applied to me. Maybe it's how other people might see it too. The first time I heard the song I didn't really get it but then it felt like the song was talking to the youth.

feeling like you're an outcast, teen angst, being insecure, this is how I saw the blackbird.

Singing in the dead of night, because none of us really want to show our pain. We're all so very happy and loud when we're with other people, but then when we are in our room trying to fall asleep with what we've become, it's hard. It's like I feel that whatever I have to say about my pain would just come out as whining.

I have this scenario in my head of a young lady/man looking out into the moon beside a window. I don't know if anybody else does.

It's hard trying to be so sure when you really don't know much about the world. It gets depressing thinking about the future you don't know about. You're scared about whether or not you're doing the right thing or if you're even on the right path. You want to be all that you have to be and can be, but in the back of your mind, you can't.

But you have to face it. You have to learn to fly and all your life you were waiting for that moment when you can actually be yourself already, when you know your dreams can come true and there's no more feeling of hopelessness.

It's like the song's saying the time is now for you to get over it and that you can do it.

I also saw it as something that can be applicable to the state of the youth in the 60s when the ideals started depleting. If you lost that much hope for something you really believed in (like paradise maybe), you might benefit from listening to this song.

P.S. I agree with the whole American Civil Rights Movement interpretation. I'm just saying that the music translates through the ages.