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Paul McCartney wrote this to and for Black women. To keep hope and faith even in the dark moments of racism and terror. He said so, and there is no need for interpretation.
I watched an interview with Paul McCartney and he said when he was in America he was having lunch at a restaurant in the south the police came in dragged a black woman screaming and yelling from the restaurant.
When he asked what she did he was told that she tried to sit at the counter. He said it really effected him. He wrote this song and said in the UK woman and girls are referred to as birds. Hence the title Blackbird. It is definitely about civil rights movement He found the woman in the song years later. Before my dad died in he played this song and told me to make sure it was played at his funeral. I was only 10 years old but I was very close with him. In the middle of the nights he would wake me up and take me places with him.
He said I kept him safe as an angel watching over him. The places we went on those dark nights were quick and I would stay in the old car surrounded by trees, listening to the black night and blackbirds song. His death was a mysterious death and many are still puzzled by it today.
Small town yet big on the map of darkness and corruption. There are may that see me and say.. Blackbird was about personal freedom. The song was played at his funeral and on the back of his tombstone reads I believe that blackbird is about a war or some kind of thing that is bad and those people need to not give up and "Take Those Broken Wings and Fly" and the sunken eyes means that just think of the future and not the past.
It's fact that the song was written in honour of Kahlil Gibran's novella "Broken Wings". I think initially Paul wrote this song about himself breaking free from the Beatles John informed the group he wanted to quit and it was Paul that told John to hold off announcing his decision, only to take advantage himself of being the one to leave the Beatles.
I love the line, Blackbird fly, into the light of the dark black night. Could be why he named his next band Wings. Paul also could have changed his mind about the songs meaning to coincide with the civil rights movement in later years. This song is about freedom. The blackbird spy plane is black and flew very fast at night to help it prevent the Cold War catastrophic bombs.
It's skill "singing in the dead of night" is flying faster than any other jet ever, flying alone, providing tactical information when and how nobody else could. As technology out of the 's, and probably Roswell ETs, it was increasingly put down as "way out" and "old fashioned" idea of forceful fuel guzzling "Broken wings" and "sunken eyes". The phrase "learn to fly" means "do your job without using so much fuel". Finally, the repeated last phrase, "you were only waiting for this moment to arise" means that the hopes and dreams of America and the Skunk Works engineers particularly who made this phenomenal jet come true finally and arrived, technology putting the USSR to eventual ruin.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night is symbolic of doing something you have not done before. Take these broken wings and learn to fly makes me think about my own brokenness and the realization that I need to be the one to learn to set myself free from it rather than hoping someone will save me. All your life you were only waiting for this moment to arrive speaks to the fact that at any moment we can wake up and see the truth of who we are no matter how long we have been living in darkness.
Into the light of the dark black night means before where you saw only blackness you now see light and hope, a new realization about life. Take these sunken eyes and learn to see In truth and love! Owing to this, it can be rendered by a single musician. And amongst the artists who have rendered their own versions are:. Another interesting tale surrounded this song is that Macca was in fact so popular back in the day that some of his diehard fans actually camped outside his home.
In he would go on to marry a lady by the name of Linda McCartney. Paul and Linda remained married until Linda passed away in Oddly enough as history tells it this is one of the songs which, in a roundabout way, inspired deranged serial killer Charles Manson. Name Optional. Its time to stand up against the fairness ads, against the very concept that poverty implies darker skin and that you deserve to be condemned without any whatsoever justification because you are of a certain color.
Despite the racism and police brutality in the United States, it is our time to shine for what is right, for what is Justice. Let this song be a constant on our playlist to remind us day in and day out that the stigma needs to be uprooted from the very core and only we can make that happen. Speak Up. Just like them, anyone can publish on Youth Ki Awaaz.
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