"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" lyrics
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
I once had a girl
Or should I say
She once had me
She showed me her room
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood
She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn't a chair
I sat on a rug
Biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two
And then she said
"It's time for bed"
She told me she worked in the morning
And started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I awoke
I was alone
This bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood
Thanks to Roy Eggleston for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Paul McCartney, John Lennon
John Lennon said of this song in an interview with David Sheff, "I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. ...so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing..., but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell."
Paul McCartney said to Barry Miles about the origin of the song's title, "Norwegian wood. It was pine really, cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, 'Cheap Pine', baby..."
While recording this song John Lennon couldn't get the right sound for it. At one moment in the studio he asked George Harrison to play a part of the melody on a sitar, which George began to be interested in. George learned how to play that piece, and the song was recorded as the first rock-band song with a sitar.
About the inclusion of the sitar George Harrison said that it was "quite spontaneous", adding, "We miked it up and put it on and it just seemed to hit the spot".
This track wasn't the first one for The Beatles to feature a sitar: an instrumental medley of songs "A Hard Day's Night", "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better" performed on a sitar, tablas, flute and finger cymbals was included in the USA release of their album "Help!".
"Norwegian Wood" inspired Haruki Murakami to write a book with the same title.
- AZLyrics
- B
- The Beatles Lyrics
album:
"Rubber Soul" (1965)
compilation:
"Anthology 2" (1996)
You May Also Like
Elton John - "Your Song" It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money, but, boy, if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor,...
Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" When routine bites hard,
And ambitions are low,
And resentment rides high,
But emotions won't grow,
And we're changing our ways,
Taking different roads.
Then love, love will tear us apart again....
David Bowie - "Space Oddity" Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
(Ten)
Ground Control
(Nine)
To Major Tom
(Eight, seven, six)
Commencing countdown
(Five)...
Grateful Dead - "Friend Of The Devil" I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds
Didn't get to sleep that night 'til the morning came around
Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get...
Joni Mitchell - "River" It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on
But it don't snow here
It stays...
