Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

One thing about music is the actual meanings of the songs and the story behind the songs. I recall Sir Paul McCartney once said something like the thing he loves about music is that anybody can interpret the lyrics however they want to. So what he is essentially saying is sometimes a song has a certain meaning but doesn't necessarily mean it has to mean that to everyone else so interpretation is one of the fine aspects of music. I will analyze a couple songs both Beatles songs the first being “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", the second song off Rubber Soul one of my favorite Beatles albums. The song explains John Lennon’s night with a girl telling he once had a girl or she once had him starting off with a wise crack. She tells him to stay and shows him her apartment decorated in Norwegian wood which was a cheap type of wood that people would decorate their houses with at the time and pass off as high quality “Norwegian wood” She says isn’t it good?, Norwegian wood. They talk for a long time and eventually she needs to head to sleep because she has work in the morning. Well John being john is frustrated mainly because he didn’t get any action and stayed up all night expecting something (which is my interpretation). He wakes up and finds her to be gone so he says so I lit a fire isn’t it good?, Norwegian wood. He burned her decorative wood furniture to merely spite her. John was an expert at lyricism and was wise, expressed jealousy and cleverness with his songs. John claimed this was a true story although Paul mentioned that he doesn’t believe it and says it just one of john made up stories and imagination which he makes reality.