She Said, She Said Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


She said I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad
And she's making me feel like I've never been born.

I said "Who put all those things in your hair
Things that ake me feel that I'm mad
And you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said"
I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
When I was a boy everything was right
Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said"
I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
When I was a boy everything was right
Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad...

 
Lead Singer: John

Recording: 6/21/66
Mixing: 6/21/66, 6/22/66
Length: 2:33
Take: 4

Anomalies

1:37
"What I've Said" <I want the ...> "I said no no ..." (Right)
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An interesting structural anomaly comes from R.A.Dare@qmw.ac.uk, who says :-

It has to do with the timing of the changes in drum patterns, if I can label the patterns as follows:

Pattern 1: 0'00" - 0'50"
Pattern 2: 0'50" - 0'57"
Pattern 3: 0'57" - 1'10"
Pattern 1: 1'10" - 1'33"
Pattern 2: 1'33" - 1'38"
Pattern 3: 1'38" - 1'53"

The second time pattern 3 comes in is at about 1'38", but it should not be until about 1'40":

vocal: .... i said no no no you're wrong, When I was a boy...
  ^
2nd(1'38")		 ^
1st(0'57")

Ringo seems eager and starts one bar early during "no no no"... he doesn't lose the tempo here, so it sounds ok, but I think it's an error, just not obvious.
Written by John Lennon after his second acid trip.
Inspired by actor Peter Fonda, who was dropping acid with Lennon and George Harrison. When Harrison had a bad trip and thought he was going to die, Fonda told him not to worry, that "I know what it's like to be dead." This gave Lennon the idea for the the lyrics, which he started writing.
Fonda accidentally shot himself and almost died when he was 10. That is what he was talking about when he said he knew what it was like to be dead.
Fonda has said that Lennon always hated him. He feels Lennon didn't like intellectual types around him.
Recorded in 9 hours during last session for album.
 
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