Isolation

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
		Bobber	April 11, 2012
	I feel two ways about this song. John's performance is superb; he effectively drives home his sense of isolation. It's easy to understand why John would feel an overwhelming isolation, given the pain of his early years and the way that his incomprehensible popularity as a Beatle would alienate him from all but his closest friends. But instead of sharing this feeling honestly (everyone raves about this album's HONESTY), he delivers a pouty spoiled-little-boy lyric like "Just a boy and a little girl, trying to change the whole wide world" followed by "everybody trying to put us down", and then the ultimate juvenility, "I don't expect you to understand". Cripes, I'm supposed to sympathise with that? I remember with great respect his wonderful couplet from "Revolution": "You want to change the constitution, well you know, We all want to change your head". Lennon has deteriorated from that height to the heroin addict wailing out his grievances to a high-priced shrink, and every time I hear this song I want to remind John before changing the whole wide world, would you please change your stupid head!	Bruce Beatlefan	November 20, 2007

Lyrics

People say we got it made don't they know we're so afriad
We're afraid to be alone, everbody got to have a home
Isolation

Just a boy and a little girl
Trying to change the whole wide world
Isolation

All the world is a little town
Everybody trying to put us down
Isolation

I don't expect you to understand
After you caused so much pain
But the again you're not to blame
your just a human, a victim of the insane

We're afrain of everyone, afraid of the sun
Isolation

The Sun will never disappear
But the world my not have many years
Isolation

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