NOWHERE MAN

It was recorded on 21 and 22 October 1965. "Nowhere Man" is among the very first Beatles songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable instance of Lennon's philosophically-oriented songwriting.



When the song first appeared during the 1960s, many of the Beatles' youthful fan base interpreted the rather hard-edged lyric, which satirizes the "Nowhere Man" as someone who "just sees what he wants to see" and who "[doesn't] know what [he's] missing", as directed against their parents' generation and conformity generally.


Lennon, however, claimed that he wrote the song about himself. He wrote it after wracking his brain in desperation for five hours, trying to come up with another song for Rubber Soul. Lennon told Playboy: "I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then 'Nowhere Man' came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down".


The short story is about a young guy who comes back to the place where he grew up and tries to make things make sense. There he meets what he wasn’t expecting.


Esta canción fue grabada entre el 21 y 22 de octubre de 1965. Nowhere Man se considera entre las primeras canciones de Lennon cuyo tema principal no era el amor, sino que, más bien, comienza a mostrar su pensamiento filosófico.


Durante los años 60's los jóvenes interpretaban a Nowhere Man como una canción ácida y afilada con respecto al conformismo de esa genereción, ya que "Nowhere Man" (hombre de ningún lugar) es alguien que "just sees what he wants to see" (sólo vé lo que quiere ver) y que "don't know what [he's] missing"(no sabe lo que [él] se pierde).


Pero Lennon, sin embargo, decía que la canción trataba de él. Había pasado cinco horas tratando de escribir una canción profunda y de calidad. Finalmente se dio por vencido y se recostó, y al hacerlo, la canción llegó sola con letra y música.


El cuento trata sobre un joven que regresa al barrio donde creció tratando de encontrarle un sentido a las cosas. Y se encuentra con lo que no esperaba.

THE LYRICS / LA LETRA


He's a real nowhere Man
Sitting in his Nowhere Land
Making all his Nowhere Plans for nobody
Doesn't kave a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Nowhere Man, don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else lend you a hand
Doesn't kave a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command
He's a real Nowhere Man
Sitting in his Nowhere Land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.