I'm Only Sleeping

But overall, Eleanor Rigby is a Beatles classic in every sense of the word.

Then we go into I'm Only Sleeping.

The loneliness of Eleanor Rigby is followed by the eerie psychedelic sounds of this John Lennon pen tune.

John Lennon wrote I'm Only Sleeping about himself and his laziness.

At that point in time, a typical day for John would usually involve him sleeping, reading, writing, or watching TV.

There were some drugs in the mix as well.

It just has this eerie feeling to it and the psychedelic nature of the song really make it stand out amongst the other songs on Revolver.

Personally,

Great chord progression, some surprising chords.

It's another one of John's sleep songs, along with I'm Only Sleeping, and it's got that kind of lackadaisical we

just did a sequel song oh yeah podcast maybe this was a sequel song a

hidden i'm only sleeping yeah could be but it's it some clever lyrics in there like about uh curse sir walter rally and the cigarettes and

yeah

and the the surprising scream um I'm going

boat on a river with tangible...

Okay, moving to track five, I'm only sleeping from Revolver.

George Harrison spent hours meticulously recording backward guitar phrases for this.

Right, writing out the solo, playing it, flipping the tape so it plays in reverse, and manually dropping the sounds into the mix.

And then Eleanor Rigby follows up.

One of my favorites is I'm Only Sleeping, which comes in at three minutes and two seconds.

That's one of the longest.

Yes,