[Michael.SF.]

Over analyzing a song is not always a good thing. Paul McCartney, in responding to a reporter who was trying to insert unnecessary depth into the lyrics if a song, once said:

”Sometimes a lyric is just a lyric. do you really think we all live on a yellow submarine. “

[nickcarraway]

”Sometimes a lyric is just a lyric. do you really think we all live on a yellow submarine. “

Aren't those two sentences essentially saying the exact opposite thing? No one was arguing that the Beatles were actually living in a yellow submarine. They were contending it was allusion to drugs, or some other symbolism.