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Ahhh Girl quoted herself
From Getting Better

“I used to get mad at my school
The teachers who taught me weren’t cool
You’re holding me down, turning me round
Filling me up with your rules.”

from Mccartney’s Feet In the Clouds

“Teacher said
I had my head in the clouds
They directed
I suspected
Disconnected
Had it my way.”  

Then she added

Throw in this from Working Class Hero

“They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate if you’re clever and despise a fool
Till you’re so f*****g crazy you can’t follow their rules”

and you have a potent anti-school diatribe going on.  

Silly Girl excitedly added
I was listening to Brainwashed last night, and lo! what did I behold but, in the titular track, the lines 

Brainwashed in our childhood
Brainwashed by the school
Brainwashed by our teachers
And brainwashed by all their rules

George hated school  

@Ahhh Girl @Into the Sky with Diamonds 

Of course, Ringo was the one with the least schooling.

Snookeroo
“I broke all the rules when i went to school,
But the teacher’s couldn’t pin me down.”

Fixing A Hole
1. where the rain gets in
2. in the ocean (Glass Onion )

Drive My Car – the girl wants to be “a star on the screen”
Honey Pie – “You became a legend of the silver screen”

Blue Jay Way & Paul’s Great Day both have extended sections of the phrase “be long”.

A simple one. The whole idea of the Get Back project.
Two of Us – “On our way back home”
Get Back – “Get back to where you once belonged”

Two mentions of missing trains on the Let It Be album–

From I’ve Got A Feeling
Oh please believe me, I’d hate to miss the train
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

From One After 909
I got my bag, run to the station
Railman says you’ve got the the wrong location

******

This line from For You Blue “I loved you from the moment I saw you” pairs well with the theme of I’ve Just Seen A Face .

London Town
People pass me by on my imaginary street
**Ordinary people** it’s impossible to meet
Holding conversations that are always incomplete

How Many People (on Flowers In The Dirt )
I want to see **ordinary people** living peacefully.

And if @Into the Sky with Diamonds is looking for more songs that mention ordinary people: http://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/o…..y%20people

You Know My Name Look Up The Number

contrast that with

Give me your number, I’ll give you a ring (from Paul’s solo career)

No Reply
I tried to telephone
They said you were not home

I’m Losing You
Can’t even get you on the telephone

If those songs were written today, it might be that the girl unfriends and blocks him on Facebook.

I just remembered this one so I will bring it over here.

In the song In Liverpool, Ringo sings: “There were places we could hide in our mind”

It took me back to There’s a Place: “There, there’s a place, Where I can go…And it’s my mind”

I often want to escape out of mind. It is nice to know The Beatles, at least at some points in their lives, liked to escape into theirs. I bet it is really nice inside their minds.

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This one is a stretch, but it just keeps twirling around in the back of my mind.

In Ringo’s song English Garden, he sings: “Buttercups grow, high at the towers.” Since buttercups are yellow and green…

It makes me think of these lines from Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds : “Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head.”

And there is the word tower(ing).

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Re: the songs about school

In the song In Liverpool, Ringo sings: “But we should be going to school, but anyway.”