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Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

Album: Revolver

genre: Pop Rock

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?

 

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"Eleanor Rigby" was ranked 138 by Rolling Stone on their list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Song details
  • Publishing: Parlophone, Capitol
  • Co-Production: George Martin
  • Recording: EMI Studios, London
  • Mix Engineering: Geoff Emerick
  • Composition: Paul McCartney, John Lennon
  • Vocals: Paul McCartney
  • Release Date: 5 August 1966
Paul McCartney stated: "I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head ... 'Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church'. I don't know why. I couldn't think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad's a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name 'McKenzie'"