"Norwegian Wood" is a play on the phrase: "Knowing She Would"
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"Norwegian Wood" is a play on the phrase: "Knowing She Would"
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Straight off Wikipedia:
McCartney said the final line of the song indicates that the singer burned the home of the girl. As he explained:
Peter Asher [brother of McCartney's then-girlfriend Jane Asher] had his room done out in wood, a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, cheap pine. But it’s not as good a title, "Cheap Pine", baby. So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you’d go to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood. It was completely imaginary from my point of view but in John’s it was based on an affair he had. This wasn’t the decor of someone’s house, we made that up. So she makes him sleep in the bath and then finally in the last verse I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as revenge, so we did it very tongue in cheek. She led him on, then said, "You’d better sleep in the bath." In our world the guy had to have some sort of revenge … so it meant I burned the f******* place down ….[1]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Wood_%28This_Bird_Has_Flown%29#Lyrics
Well Norwegian Wood was a kind of furniture that was in fashion at the time!
The song itself was about an affair that John had with another woman,but he made the lyrics all goobledygook so that his wife wouldn’t find out the truth!
Now those last lines about lighting a fire:Paul saying that it meant that the protagonist burning the apartment down is one interpretation,but I offer this one instead.John may have remembered when he lived with Stu Sutcliffe in a flat on Gambier Terrace,there were sometimes during the winter that it would get so cold in that place that Stu would actually burn the furniture in order to keep warm and perhaps when writing Norwegian Wood,John may have remembered those days and decided to incorporate them into the song!
Just a thought!
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