Sunday, November 22, 2015

"Yellow Submarine"

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I forgot to write about something I noticed when I listened to Yellow Submarine a few days ago.  In "Yellow Submarine," there's the line "Every one of us has all we need."  I think it's meant to describe what the previous line states - the "life of ease" where everyone has enough.  But because the pronouns change from singular ("one") to plural ("we"), it actually describes an excess.  Each single person has the amount required by the whole group of people.