Eleanor Rigby -- Beatles

I look at all the lonely people I look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by
the door  Who is it for?

All the lonely people Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.  Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there What does he care?

All the lonely people Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the lonely people Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from 
the grave  No one was saved

All the lonely people Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people Where do they all belong?


The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
With a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin, and striking lyrics about loneliness, the song continued the transformation of the group from a mainly pop-oriented act to a more experimental studio-based band.     (wikipedia) 




            The gravestone of the "real" Rigby, St. Peter's Parish 
                                              Church, Woolton, August 2008 

a grave of an Eleanor Rigby was "discovered" in the graveyard of St. Peter's Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, and a few yards away from that, another tombstone with the last name McKenzie scrawled across it.  During their teenage years, McCartney and Lennon spent time sunbathing there, within earshot of where the two had met for the first time during afete in 1957. Many years later McCartney stated that the strange coincidence between reality and lyric could be a product of his subconscious, rather than being a meaningless fluke. An actual Eleanor Rigby was born in 1895 and lived in Liverpool, possibly in the suburb of Woolton, where she married a man named Thomas Woods. She died on 10 October 1939 at age 44. Whether this Eleanor was the inspiration for the song or not, her tombstone has become a landmark to Beatles fans visiting Liverpool. A digitised version was added to the 1995 music video for The Beatles' reunion song "Free as a Bird".                   (wikipedia)  

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