Beatlemania - Eleanor Rigby

 Eleanor Rigby - 

Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney 

Published in 1966

Lyrics - 

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Ah, 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 (Ah, look at all the lonely people)

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people (Ah, look at all the lonely people)

Where do they all belong?

What meaning is behind this song? 

Thye song Eleanor Rigby tells the story of two lonely people, at first we meet a churchgoing lady who goes by the name of Eleanor Rigby. The second verse introduces us to the pastor, Father McKenzie, whose sermons "no one will hear," this could mean that nobody comes to his church or that his sermons aren't getting through the congregation on a spiritual level. In the third verse, Eleanor dies in the church, and Father McKenzie is the one to bury her. Paul McCartney got the name "Eleanor" from actress Eleanor Bron, and the last name"Rigby" came to him when he was in Bristol, England, and spotted a store: Rigby and Evens Ltd Wine and Spirit Shippers. He liked the name "Eleanor Rigby" because it sounded natural and matched the rhythm. 

How is this song different from songs in the 1940s?