"Horse to Water" - double-entendre in personal modesty?

[PhillyGuy]

Is the hidden meaning in the title "Horse to Water" refer to the fact
that George's (The Dark "Horse") ashes were to be dispersed in two so-called
Holy rivers in India?

- Tom Blumenthal

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[Strabbo]

PhillyGuy <tomfro...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Is the hidden meaning in the title "Horse to Water" refer to the fact
> that George's (The Dark "Horse") ashes were to be dispersed in two
so-called
> Holy rivers in India?

If that were the case, then the following line, "but you can't make him
drink" would hint that George wouldn't absorb the holiness of the waters, or
that their power wouldn't reach him.

Could this be a last-song confession that his far eastern religious beliefs
had faded?

Could he perhaps have been leaning in his final days toward something else?

Watch for my upcoming thesis: Was George Harrison A Closet Orthadox Jew?

;-)

Marty

[Stephen212]

"PhillyGuy" <tomfro...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> Is the hidden meaning in the title "Horse to Water" refer to the fact
> that George's (The Dark "Horse") ashes were to be dispersed in two
so-called
> Holy rivers in India?
>
> - Tom Blumenthal

Interesting thought if you go no further than the song's title. It doesn't
hold up, however, when you read the lyric. In the lyric, it's the horse
that's deaf to enlightenment. I don't think that George was quite that
self-deprecating.

"Horse to the Water"

You can take a horse to the water
You can't make him drink
Oh no, oh no, oh no

A friend of mine is in so much misery
Some people sail through life, he has struck a reef
Said hey man let's go out and get some wisdom
First he turned on me, then turned off his nervous system

You can take a horse to the water
You can't make him drink
Oh no, oh no, oh no
you can have it all layed/staked out in front of you
but it still don't make you think
Oh no, oh no, oh no

Someone I love gotta problem
Some people thirst for truth, he would like a drink
Say man this could turn out to be risky
He said, "Everything's OK" as he downed another bottle of whisky

A preacher out there warned me about Satan
Could be that he knows him
He acts like he's possessed
I said hey man let's hear about God realisation
For a change
He said, "We ain't got time fot that
First you must hear the evils of fornication."

[Bent_Axel]

You can tell people to stop smoking but do they listen?

[Astarte]

oh come on silly, he worshipped the buffalo god! *duh*

tyre

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