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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by:	mikem 09:21 am EST 12/07/13
In reply to:	re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - LegitOnce 01:19 am EST 12/07/13

With Catholic guilt and all, Maria probably thinks she was wicked at the convent, too. She knows that she is often late (and therefore disobedient) and that some of the other nuns don't think much of her. I find it interesting that the lyric is, "I had a miserable youth" (things happened to me that were terrible) as opposed to "I was a miserable youth" (I was a bad kid). I find it easy to imagine that Maria had a miserable youth. As far as we know, she has no family at all (no one walks her down the aisle), she seems like someone who could get picked on a lot by authority figures (like the nuns at the abbey do), and she may have entered the convent because the church took her out of miserable surroundings.

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re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically

Posted by:	Chromolume 08:59 pm EST 12/07/13
In reply to:	re: ''Something'' I've wondered about, lyrically - mikem 09:21 am EST 12/07/13

I find it interesting that the lyric is, "I had a miserable youth" (things happened to me that were terrible) as opposed to "I was a miserable youth" (I was a bad kid). "kid" would likely describe her "childhood" rather than her "youth," yes? ;-)

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