Golden Slumbers

Letra, tradução e música de “Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End ( medley)“ de Neil Diamond.
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It's more accurate to identify the song as being "in" the key of C, albeit it with a verse that starts away from it but quickly converges.

Golden Slumbers

A moderate amount of fussiness is applied to the instrumentation: The first verse starts off with piano alone, but bass sparingly at first and strings are soon added. Drums and brass enter dramatically at the start of the refrain, but the texture is greatly lightened up toward its final phrase. The second verse is similar to the first one, but this time the drums in the form of gentle cymbal work stay in the whole way, and the brass, too, can be heard softly in the background.

Paul's lead is single tracked with no added backing. His shift into a rather menacing third tone of voice for the refrain would seem be be cast perversely counter to the otherwise gentle lullaby context. I'm parsing this with a rapid quarter note beat in order to avoid needing to resort to odd half measures when the phrase lengths become uneven later on: Exploiting the vi7 chord's superimposition the triads of a Major home key with its relative minor is a special effect we've seen in a number of Beatles songs; start with " Think of it as a purposeful distortion of what otherwise could have easily been an ordinary sixteen measures 4 by 4 design: The savory dissonance of the d9 chord in the third phrase is deftly set up by the sustaining of the pitch E-natural through the entire phrase; where it is a natural member of all the other triads used in the phrase except for d.

It's hard to tell if that E chord in the third phrase is Major or minor.

To my ears, it is minor in the first verse, and Major in the other two sections. In any event, the chord appears in root position in both verses, but in the refrain, it appears with a B in the bass as part of the walking bassline introduced at that point.

Look out for melodic sixths, most of which are leaps: In other words, I'm saying that you hear the note, B, that starts off the second phrase as connected, in hindsight, to the A that was left hanging in the first phrase: I still call this a "refrain" rather than a bridge because of its inclusion of the title phrase. Just like with the verse, you can easily imagine how this could have been shoe-horned into a more mundane four-square, sixteen-measure pattern: Train your ear, I encourage you, to zero in on, and isolate such phenomena in your head when you listen to this and other recordings.

The source tape for this delightful rarity sustained some unfortunate damage at the place of the first line of the refrain, inevitably presenting Paul's vocalization of the dramatically declaimed title phrase with a painful, out-of-key, wavering of pitch and tempo. Just the like the lost secret for how to get back home described in the lyrics, you'll find that once you've ever heard this outtake, you'll never be able to listen to the title phrase of this track on the official version with the same kind of emotional trust fall you're used to throwing into it.

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There's enough genuine quiver in even the official recording that you'll find yourself forever bracing against the eventuality of the dreaded awful wobbling of the outtake. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. The Beatles — Golden Slumbers. Once there was a way, To get back homeward.

The Beatles - Golden Slumbers Lyrics | SongMeanings

Once there was a way To get back home. Sleep, pretty darling, Dot not cry And I will sing a lullaby. Golden slumbers, Fill your eyes Smiles await you when you rise Sleep pretty darling Do not cry And I will sing a lullaby. Once there was a way To get back homeward Once there was a way To get back home Sleep, pretty darling Do not cry And I will sing a lullaby.

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Golden Slumbers song meanings. Add your thoughts 50 Comments. General Comment First time I heard this song I cried so much, including it's lead onto carry that weight and the end. These three songs just seem like the perfect illustration of life and death. We grow from childhood where we're too old to be comforted by our parents and sung a lullaby.

There's no one to kiss us better when we scrape our knee.

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Things get harder, there's pressure and stress that we have to carry as weight on our soldiers until we die - but in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make, and the lives you touch on the way, and the people who touch you make it worth it. To be fair, I know nothing about life. S, but that's my interpretation for you. There was an error. If you wee truly only 15 at the time you wrote that, you have more wisdom and insight than the majority of those your own age.

Flag hypnotist1 on July 31, General Comment The song is based on a poem by by 17th century poet Thomas Dekker. Also, Paul saw a song called Golden Slumbers in his step-sister's songbook, but he was unable to read the music so he just rewrote it with his own music and lyrics.

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No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment A Londoner born c. General Comment Awe, when I first moved..