"Now And Then": The 1978 Song by John Lennon, versus The Rewrite, 2023
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"Now and Then": The Original John Lennon 1978 Paean (A Mournful Dirge) for Paul,
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The Completely Rewritten, New Song with The Same Title, Released on November 2, 2023
Paul Is Dead, or PID, is the idea that Paul McCartney died in late 1966.
The 1978 song, "Now And Then", by John Lennon, is a lovely, emotional song, fairly simple in lyrics, except for one section, which talks openly of conspiracy. The song session was labeled "For Paul".
Our main focus will be on the lyrics. The original lyrics in the second section of the real song are about a real conspiracy of some kind:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they [the public] turn to me [to reveal it]."
Since the song was "For Paul", which Paul was it for? Was it John's last, simple, poignant cry about the real Paul's death?
A completely different song, a rewrite by the same title, was released on November 2nd, 2023. November 2nd every year is is the Roman Catholic Feast of All Souls, also known as the Day of the Dead, in Mexico.
It is the secret-conspiracy section which is emphasized in the new version, by repeating it, but it was completely rewritten each time. Not only that, the new version is not haunting. As well, the real song is now removed from almost every on-line location.
Beatle George Harrison officially had even refused to rewrite the song. Was he trying to protect the song and its mention of a secret? What is going on here?
Moreover, as mentioned above, November 2nd, the date of the release of the new song, is All Souls Day, a time to remember the dead in prayers, in the Catholic calendar. Paul was a nominal Catholic.
Aside: Paul McCartney was nominally Catholic. Catholics and traditional Jews of late Old Testament and Talmud, plus Martin Luther early on and many religions around the world pray for the saved, not souls damned to Hell, in a kind of Purgatory, for purging, purgation, purification. The idea is that Heaven cannot tolerate impurity, that is, any damage from sin; thus, saved souls would need a purgation on the way to purity in Heaven. For a discussion of this, see: https://youtu.be/6L5cJX5-eKI?si=RHGKG9rAfcDjdXf-
In Mexico and elsewhere , Catholicism is sometimes mixed with Aztec and similar practices. All Souls Day has come to be known as Day of the Dead there and the dead are supposed to return on that day, to visit families and friends.
Yes, John Lennon is dead, but the session was "For Paul" and the lyrics, including that key section are about a conspiracy in the context of Paul, now released without the proper section, on Day of the Dead. So it would seem to be a clue about Paul's death (or supposed death), while the direct clue of the poignant feel of the real song and the key section were removed.
Click on the image to read how George Harrison refused to "rewrite" the words, with an excuse. Why? PID theory would say that he was actually protecting the explicitly revealing section as long as possible. (The copy of the video shown in this slide is removed off YouTube, along with all other original copies, but anyone with a copy of the song can check the facts. Seek and save the original where you find it, while you can.)
No one in 2016 had a complete rendering of the section. This author listened again and again, realizing that the word "eternally" was clear. What were the other words? John's voice went gutteral for the "I want it out" section, which makes sense completely if Paul had died. But the words were clear otherwise. The only thing stopping the translation was that it made "no sense" without PID. She published the result.
1. The new deception uses different words, but recognizable sound patterns. Here are the new words, twisting the segment, in part one:
"[Pause.] I know you're there for me, /
Always to return to me."
(The "you're there for me" is a stretched play on the syllables for "eternally" in the original. "Always to re-turn to" must be a play on "I know they turn to".)
2. And, again, the very same original segment is rewritten a different way, in part two of the new lyrics:
"I want you to be there for me. /
[Long silence, entirely missing line.]"
("I want you to be" is equivalent to the pattern of the "I want it out e[-ternally]." After this, the silence for the second line in the original, is the only indication of a climax, a difference with the rest of the new song. In the original, the key part was the climax by the crescendo of feeling in the singing and playing.)
Now let us remind ourselves of the real words, John's own words, in the key section:
"Now and then, I miss you. /
Oh, now and then, /
I want it out eternally; /
I know they turn to me."
It seems that the whole purpose of the remake of the original song was to redo the key section!
But had Paul actually died? That is a slightly separate question.
Indeed, the key segment about a secret is the only verse content in the new version and is repeated in the new version, where this original verse was the climax in the original and was only stated once in the original.
Yoko Ono, John's widow, gave the tape to the Beatles franchise some years after John's assassination in 1980. "Now and Then" was with "Free As A Bird", also part of the "For Paul Session". Free As A Bird was released in a fairly respectful remake. Now And Then was not officially released, until now, and it is completely rewritten. It is not a respectful remake by any stretch of the imagination, even without PID (Paul Is Dead) case theory.
If Paul died, it is John's last Requiem for him, a cry from the heart and, we will see, a plea for forgiveness for the entrapment John was in. Some people are now saying the song was about a woman, but it was always about Paul, in the "For Paul" sessions. Which Paul was it speaking of, the original or the double?
If Paul's death occurred, the victims of the cover-up, who also participated, would be expected to leave lots of diary-like clues in art and statements. But of all these, the most basic types of responses, non-hyped cries of loss, by Beatles and family and friends, would be expected to be the most expected to be evilly erased, as much obscured as possible.
Are Paul's death and even his actual existence, separate from another man, and John's desperate last sign of the conspiracy, being erased? Is Ringo Starr's "insider status" of knighthood, now obtained, obliging him to help Sir Paul and others cover up the last cry of help from John? The case for PID ("Paul Is Dead") would say so.
If there is an on-going conspiracy to cover up Paul's death, it is shown by changing these specific words of John Lennon, all the while hinting less explicitly that Paul died, by putting out cover-up lyrics on the very Day of the Dead. Could it be?
