Goodness me.
For years I've been assuming two things about She Came In Through The Bathroom Window:
1. The lyrics hardly sound like anything that might make sense. They sound more like another result of the famous equation Paul + LSD = Artsy Songs.
If anything, I've heard some rumors speculating "She" was Linda, who entered his life surprisingly, protected by the silver spoon as in born into a rich family.
2. Despite the snubbing tone of the first assumption, a few years ago it hit me: this is the band's greatest recorded moment - and that I was the only one holding this opinion.
There's something about the way Paul sings that line, "Didn't ANYBODY seeeeeeee?", and the fact that it's on Abbey Road, and the fact that it's a part of the Abbey Road medley that makes it the best moment in their entire career.
Yesterday, researching for this post, I discovered two things that ruined everything I thought.
As it turns out, the song is actually based on a real story:
A fan named Diane Ashley found a ladder in McCartney's garden and used it to climb up to the bathroom window, which was slightly open. "I was the one who climbed up and got in," she says. Diane was surprised to have become the subject of a Beatles song. "I didn't believe it at first, because he'd hated it so much when we broke in. But then I suppose anything can inspire a song, can't it? I know that all his neighbours rang him when they saw we'd got in and I'm sure that gave rise to the lines, 'Sunday's on the phone to Monday/Tuesday's on the phone to me'. (Source: Wikipedia)
The second finding proved I wasn't the only one thinking it's the band's greatest song. Enter Tom, who wrote a beautiful review of the somewhere deep inside the
internet's spaces. Here's a quote:
"It may be the best song on the finest album by the greatest rock group of all time. Does this that make it the best song of all time? Unlikely, as it is usually not corralled among the great, classic rock'n'roll songs....
In all the Beatles books I have read, no author devotes more than a few paragraphs to its composition and recording, whereas a disaster such as "Revolution #9" is worried over as avidly as an ancient scroll. About all one can say authoritatively is this: "She Came in through the Bathroom Window" is cut 13 on Abbey Road; in it, one can hear a tambourine; and it clocks in at just a little over 1:57."
Tom wrote a long passage, which in another world (hence being born with English as mother tongue), I would have written the exact same thing, as it reflects my thoughts. Read "
On She Came in Through The Bathroom Window".
If you'd like, you can find some more
SCITBW facts on
SongFacts* Picture credit:
niine @ DeviantArt
