lol even in death john's desperate cries for help still are being prettified by paul to the point that no one can hear them. whether he actually wanted that is an open question
the song is fine I've decided but you want more from the "last song" from the biggest band ever. it definitely loses something without the original bridge- it seems to have been taken as another sad-nostalgic beatles tribute (marketing & video really didn't help matters). but the song might be too sad or raise too many questions if they hadn't changed it. people (paul, yoko, fans, writers) much prefer the "happy househusband" story to the "writing jealously about paul every day in his diary" story when it comes to lennon in the late 70s. what happened to this song is the musical equivalent of the kind of narrative spinning and smoothing out that the beatles empire has done with the more controversial parts of lennon's biography (broadly the late 60s/early 70s, mid 70s, and late 70s) and it bums me out a lot (both the reality and the fact that it's apparently still necessary to deny it in order to protect a a dead man's ego or something)
― Left, Friday, 8 December 2023 22:45 (four months ago) link