Tuesday, January 5, 2016

"Nowhere Man"

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This is probably an-other thing I wouldn't have noticed were I not transcribing the lyrics to Beatles songs.  The middle line of the second verse of "Nowhere Man" is "Knows not where he's going to."  The "Knows not" is sort of inverted from what would normal be rendered as something like "[He does] not know where he's going to."  But that inversion - and the slight mental delay it takes to process it - seems to indicate the confusion and aimlessness of the Nowhere Man himself.