Philosophical
Lyrics exploring abstract questions about existence, consciousness, or the nature of reality
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Songs(30)
There's a Place
Mind as private inner sanctuary
Can't Buy Me Love
Money can't buy love maxim
I'm a Loser
Aphorism: 'pride comes before a fall'
In My Life
Weighing past affection against present love
Nowhere Man
Existential drift, lack of meaning
Think for Yourself
Advocates independent thought
Girl
Questions Protestant work ethic
The Word
Abstract message of universal love
We Can Work It Out
Bridge meditates on brevity of life
Rain
Weather is 'just a state of mind'
Love You To
Brevity of life shapes the argument
Tomorrow Never Knows
Being, knowing, the void
Strawberry Fields Forever
'Nothing is real'; reality as illusion
Fixing a Hole
'I'm right where I belong'
Within You Without You
Meditation on illusion, ego & oneness
All You Need Is Love
Aphoristic statements about nature of action and being
Hello, Goodbye
Duality of opposites
The Fool on the Hill
Wisdom mistaken for foolishness
The Inner Light
Adapted Tao Te Ching ch. 47
Revolution
Inner change over outer revolt
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Inside/outside paradox
Savoy Truffle
'What you eat you are'
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I Ching-inspired meditation on hidden love
It's All Too Much
Overwhelm at expanded awareness
Because
Cause-effect contemplation of existence
The End
Cosmic balance in closing couplet
Across the Universe (Wildlife version)
Consciousness, perception, cosmic unity
Let It Be
Acceptance as response to suffering
Across the Universe
Mind, perception, infinity
I Me Mine
Ego and non-attachment
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