Day in the Life Lyrics
I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He hadn't noticed that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today, oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on
[Bridge]
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
I read the news today, oh boy
4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on
About
“Day in the Life” is a song originally performed by The Beatles, which was later covered by Allie X. Her cover was released via Vimeo in 2013, along with an accompanying music video.
According to the original upload description, “Day in the Life” was planned to be the first part of a scrapped video project titled Triangle Series:
TRIANGLE SERIES: A collaborative experiment between a photographer and a musician (and an editor, stylist, makeup artist and sound engineer). A song re imagined and performed by me, in a unique location, shot by a photographer I admire. The bare minimum is pre conceived, allowing the choices to be intuitive and impulsive. The photography and song are spliced together to create something that is somewhere between stop motion/ a .gif / music video.
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