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Everybody's Fool: John Lennon

posted 18 years ago by Dominik528
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I think the song "Everybody's Fool" by Evanescence suits John, don't you think? Here's the lyrics (Except that the word 'she' is turned into 'he'):

Perfect by nature!
Icons of self indulgence!
Just what we all need!
More lies about a world that

Never was and never will be!
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled

Look, here he comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder!
Oh, how we love you!
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know he

Never was and never will be!
You don't know how you've betrayed me!
And somehow you've got everybody fooled

Without the mask, where will you hide?
Can't find yourself!
Lost in your lie...!

I know the truth now!
I know who you are!
And I don't love you anymore!

It never was and never will be!
You don't know how you've betrayed me!
And somehow you've got everybody fooled

It never was and never will be!
You're not real and you can't save me!
And somehow now you're everybody's fool...!

Well, how this song fits him is: John discovers his past years of loving being a Beatle, and realizes that he's just himself (hence "I know the truth now! I know who you are! And I don't love you anymore!"). Also, John feels betrayed by everyone who hates Yoko (hence "You don't know how you've betrayed me!").

[–] straker-1 17 years ago

Poems are good.

[–] cbartal 17 years ago

Dominik528,

While I agree that there is quite a bit of hypocrisy inherent in Lennon's self fabricated myth, I would contend that this is the nature of the artist in general.

Imagine is a beautiful song, and a lovely abstract idea, but with John and Yoko living in an all white mansion, jet setting around the world addicted to nicotine and heroin, it's hard to take them seriously.

That being said, what artist has lived up to his or her own philosophical standards? Not many, I suspect. Maybe Van Gogh, or an outsider artist like Henry Darger, or Elliott Smith, or maybe even Charles Bukowski.

Ultimately it becomes necessary to separate the art from the artist. Otherwise we are left with, more or less, a vacuum in the art world.

I can count on one finger the number of artists who I feel have lived up to their own ideals. But that's why ideals are ideals and humans are human. I'd feel empty in a world where these artist's works don't exist.

[–] hendrixlee102-1 17 years ago

Please don't relate Evanescence to the Beatles ever again.

[–] SimplySteve 17 years ago

ROFL