It was 50 years ago today ("She's Leaving Home")

Essa foi baseada num fato real. Não que isso seja algo incomum mas nunca naquele país alguém tinha escrito uma letra assim. É preciso entender que naquele tempo existiam coisas que não eram faladas em público, muito menos numa música. Pode parecer uma bobagem mas era assim, e essa música, em última análise também é muito ousada. A moça em questão posteriormente foi para a America e se envolveu com o ator Burt Ward, o Robin do seriado televisivo. Típico.

Depois de "Eleanore Rigby", na qual o Paul utilizou um quarteto de cordas, "She's leaving home" repete a fórmula de usar instrumentos de corda (aqui com harpa além dos violinos e violoncello) e ter um tema mais sério. Cinquenta anos depois essas dificuldades relacionadas à educação de filhos ainda acontecem pois não é a tecnologia que muda as pessoas, nem o tempo. As dificuldades são as mesmas, porém mais caras.

Wednesday morning at five o'clock
As the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more

She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside, she is free

She(we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years (bye bye)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
"Daddy, our baby's gone.
"Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?"

She (we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years

Friday morning, at nine o'clock
She is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the Motortrade

She (what did we do that was wrong)
Is Having (we didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

Something inside, that was always denied, for so many years
She's leaving home, bye, bye