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Poem by me called Ghost

Have I ever taken you in my arms? Wiped your tears dry. Taught you how to cry, asked you reasons why. Held you in my heart, kept you in my mind. Wondered where you were, always searching for your hand. Asking myself why you are gone, such a lonely song. Swimming in your tears. I shared those special moments, between you and I. Nothing could ever replace those special moments. Watching you walk by as you search for reasons why. Feeling the wind move as you float on by. A silhouette of a spirit that lives on through me. You never did know, I kept those special moments.

Those special moments, oh precious moments, between you and I. As you look and float on through me, together forever, our spirits together. Yes, please. Float on through me until the end of time.

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Mental intimacy is better than physical BUT y'all ain't ready for that talk

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In a late wee-hour-of-the-morning talk, he once told me, ‘I’m just like everybody else Harry, I fell for Paul’s looks.” – Harry Nilsson speaking about John Lennon

John owned these two photgraphs of Paul, which he then sold when he moved to the US.

Source: One Sweet Dream FB page

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This song makes tears flow instantly for me. And this music video version is so beautiful too. Paul is beautiful and John is with him in that video - "There could never be a better moment than this one" fly high John. 🕊️

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Poem I did called Sad Swan

A sad swan, so soft and delicate.

I wish you knew how much I loved you.

Like an ocean meets a current.

Like lightning with roaring thunder.

Oh yes I love you, I wish you knew that.

I know you can look right through me.

All I needed was to look into your eyes and realize how much you mean to me.

Oh I know you know I am going through it.

Mixed emotions scrambled through sad music.

Oh yes I love you, did I say I love you?

I will continue to love you. 

Oh yes I love you, and I know you love me.

Please sad swan don't cry, allow those tears to dry.

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This song my mom dedicated to my brother and I :'( it's so happy but so bittersweet at the same time. Also I love seeing Paul and Linda together.

Lyrics

Did I ever take you in my arms, Look you in the eye, tell you that I do, Did I ever open up my heart And let you look inside.

If I never did it, I was only waiting For a better moment that didn't come. There never could be a better moment Than this one, this one.

The swan is gliding above the ocean, A god is riding upon his back, How calm the water and bright the rainbow Fade this one to black.

Did I ever touch you on the cheek Say that you were mine, thank you for the smile, Did I ever knock upon your door And try to get inside?

If I never did it, I was only waiting For a better moment that didn't come. There never could be a better moment Than this one, this one.

The swan is gliding above the ocean, A god is riding upon his back, How calm the water and bright the rainbow Fade this swan to black.

What opportunities did we allow to flow by Feeling like like the timing wasn't quite right? What kind of magic might have worked if we had stayed calm, Couldn't I have given you a better life?

Did you ever take me in your arms, Look me in the eye, tell me that you do? Did I ever open up my heart, Let you look inside?

If I never did it, I was only waiting For a better moment that didn't come. There never could be a better moment Than this one, this one.

The swan is gliding above the ocean, A god is riding upon his back, How calm the water and bright the rainbow Fade this swan to black

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So haunting yet so poetic and beautiful at the same time.

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“When Paul took his tab, he recalled, “we looked into each other’s eyes, the eye contact thing we used to do, which is fairly mind-boggling . . . It was amazing. You’re looking into each other’s eyes and you would want to look away, but you wouldn’t, and you could see yourself in the other person.” Like dreams or the themes that emerge in stream-of-consciousness writing, the preoccupations that come to people on acid trips can be enormously revealing. Paul spent much of his trip moving between his house and the garden. “Oh no, I’ve got to go back in,” he would tell himself. “I’ve got to do it, for my well-being.” And in the meantime, he said, “John had been sitting around very enigmatically and I had a big vision of him as a king, the absolute Emperor of Eternity. . . .” Finally, after four or five hours, Paul cried uncle and said he wanted to go to bed. “Go to bed?” John said. “You won’t sleep!” “I know that,” Paul said. “I’ve still got to go to bed.” And as he lay there, “I could feel every inch of the house, and John seemed like some sort of emperor in control of it all. It was quite strange. Of course he was just sitting there, very inscrutably.” The resonances here with his remarks made while quite sober are palpable: “I always idolized him,” Paul said of John. “We always did, the group. I don’t know if the others will tell you that, but he was our idol. “We were all in love with John,” he said.”

— Powers Of Two: How Relationships Drive Creativity, Joshua Wolf Shenk 

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Every reference to John Lennon featured in the alternate music video for "This One"

"This One", is a 1989 Paul McCartney single featuring Paul singing about what he claims to be "George Harrison's" missed opportunity to tell John Lennon that he loved him. (when obviously it's Paul projecting onto Harrison, judging by the lyrics, and the way he handled it in this interview).

The song has two music videos. The first one (and most prevalent music video) was heavily inspired by The Beatles trip to india. The second music video, is extremely psychedelic (possibly in reference to the acid trips McCartney and Lennon shared) within it are many intricate references to Lennon featured in the scenes of the music video.

The first two references (White feathers, and a feathered hat), are featured between the timestamps 0:30 - 0:38

The music video opens with McCartney sitting at a desk, surrounded by white feathers, before everything fades to black and all that's visible is one singular white feather.

Julian Lennon recounted Lennon saying that if he were to pass away, his spirit would take the form of a White Feather:

"One thing Dad said to me should he pass away, if there was any way of letting me know he was going to be ok the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather always represented peace to me." - Julian Lennon, 2013

The white feather then transitions into a pale blue feather sitting atop a hat:

I assume this hat was meant to reference Lennon's Feathered Hat that he wore in the 1967 Magical Mystery tour film:

Reference Three: McCartney illuminating along with the Moon throughout the timestamps 1:40 - 1:46

McCartney is "juggling" the Moon as it passes through its moon cycles, the Moon is illuminating very brightly, along with a glowing blue outline of McCartney. This alignment may be a reference to the lyrics in the 1970 Lennon song "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)", where Lennon says: "we all shine on just like the moon and the sun"

Reference Four: A green apple seen throughout the timestamps 1:47 - 1:50

McCartney lip syncs to the camera, yet stops when he notices a bright green apple floating away. The green apple references Apple Corps (a company founded by the Beatles, however McCartney and Lennon played the most significant role in its creation). In some way, the apple represents McCartney and Lennon's relationship; Paul doesn't notice it fading away, until it's too late, and once he does notice it, it's too far up to retrieve and it becomes permanently lost.

Reference Five: John Lennon's Glasses, and him in Heaven featured throughout the timestamps 2:22 - 2:25

McCartney is seen wearing circular glasses with pink lenses a-like to Lennon's renowned circular glasses with yellow lenses. However, he can also be seen wearing pink lenses too:

Though, it's unlikely that this choice of switching Lennon's yellow lenses to pink ones was intentional, as I recall hearing that this music video was filmed in a barn, and therefore they were short of props and had to replace Lennon's yellow lenses with pink ones.

A few seconds after McCartney makes this appearance, a halo spawns atop of his head. It almost seems as though McCartney is "cosplaying" Lennon, and the Halo represents him having passed away, as John now remains an angel in heaven.

Reference Six: The closing scene: 3:51 - 4:27

Near the end of the music video, Linda and Paul sit beneath a tall tree, pointing at its branches. There are two references to Lennon in this scene, the first one being another sighting of a White Feather mentioned earlier (representing John's spirit), falling from the tree.

The camera then zooms out, and we get a clearer look at the tree that Linda and Paul are sitting under.

I'm unsure if this was meant to be a reference, or if it was solely coincidental. But in the comments of the music video, someone claimed that the tree looked like the one from the Strawberry Fields Forever music video:

References to Paul grieving John:

There is this very short part of the music video throughout the timestamps 0:32-0:36, where McCartney has his head down and you can see a shimmering tear fall from his face, and splash into a small pond. There are also many references to doves throughout the music video, which are considered a symbol of the "peaceful journey after death"

I'd also like some help uncovering this freeze-frame, as I have no idea what it means:

I doubt it was just added for no reason. It says "Ocean", yet there wasn't much I could find about Lennon and any correlation he might have with the word "Ocean". Maybe it's about someone else, or maybe I am missing something.

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"I was talking to someone yesterday who was telling me that if he cried, his father would say, 'Boys don't cry. You musn't do that.' My dad wasn't like that, but that was the attitude: male people do not cry. I think now it's acknowledged that it's a perfectly good thing to do, and I say, 'God wouldn't have given us tears if he didn't mean us to cry.'" - Paul McCartney, The Lyrics, 2021

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"We were introduced to grass when we were in the US, and it blew our tiny little minds." Paul McCartney, The Lyrics, 2021

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"I was born into that way of thinking, that it'll be okay in the end. Tragedy can happen but that page will turn, and I love that. Realising that I have a reach in the world, that people listen to my stuff, I feel a responsibility (though perhaps I wouldn't put it quite so boldly as that), to be optimistic till I no longer can be. That attitude naturally creeps into my songs because I know that these songs are going to go somewhere, and i think it would be nice if they make people take a positive path. I'm going to be optimistic until it's no longer possible, and the situation would have to be pretty Blade Runner, pretty bad, for me to not be able to think, 'Let's sing a song ...'" - Paul McCartney, The Lyrics, 2021

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"... I'm a troubadour, I've got my little guitar, I'm in a field and I'm writing about the stream and daffodils and the sunshine and whatever's occurring to me." - Paul McCartney, The Lyrics, 2021

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Tik-Tok, Dorothy, the Wizard of Kintyre, and the Tin Woodman. Photo from the set of that weird, scary fantasy film, Return to Oz (1985).

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Brisbane Zoo, 1975

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Lennon McCartney art!