Yer Blues

"Yer Blues" was written by John in India. It's a very bluesy number, and the lyrics explore Lennon's battles with depression. From Wikipedia:

Lennon said in a Rolling Stone interview that he used the humorous title as something of a defense mechanism, so that if anyone criticized the song, he could write it off as a parody. The lyrics are extremely suicidal, and include references to Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" as well as cosmology, and were possibly reflective of Lennon's well-documented battles with his psychological demons.

To me, that seems to mark a deep insecurity--the kind he talks about in many of his songs--about not only his work, but about himself and his relationships as well. In addition, its blues vibe bears a "similarity to much of Lennon's early solo output... and marks a retreat from Lennon's concern with studio experimentation that marked such songs as 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever'." We'll see more of that as we move away from The Beatles as a cohesive unit and start to explore each Beatle's solo career. 

That's all for today... See you tomorrow!

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