Free as a Bird

[Cassie Carter]

This evening I put my iPod on Beatles and, after the complete abum of
Abbey Road, the post mortem "Free as a Bird" came on. I almost
changed it, because I hate it, but I listened to the one line the
surviving Beatles added to John Lennon's fragment: "Whatever happened
to the life that we once knew, can we really live without each other?
Where did we lose the touch that made me feel so much? It always made
me feel ..." which leads into Lennon's chorus "free as a bird, etc."

The most important concept in PZ is "the zone." When I was there in
Jim's apartment, working on the very rough draft, that concept was not
coming through clearly through the murk of the draft and I asked Jim
to explain something or other. He went on a rant and explained "the
zone" in animated detail that I hope I will never forget.

In short, "the zone" can be achieved through any number of means --
many of which are described in PZ. One example is sports, when you
get to that place where you don't have to think and just can't miss
(described in detail in Basketball Diaries). Jim explained that "the
zone" is when you are connected to God and to everyone and everything
in the universe. Billy is desperately trying to get back to "the
zone" in PZ.

I'm writing this message tonight because of the lyrics Paul McCartney
and/or George Harrison added to John Lennon's "Free as a Bird." I
don't know who wrote the lyrics (I'm guessing McCartney), but both
sang them. No doubt, when asked to do this, the Lennon piece made the
lyric-writer feel very melancholic and whatnot, so that no doubt needs
to be taken into account, but the gist of the lyric is what happened
to the magic?

I think this lyric is about "the zone."

Thoughts?

Cassie

[Cassie]

I am bummed that nobody nibbled on this bate. Damn.

[write3...@gmail.com]

Cassie, I never saw this one!
Today is the first time I'm reading it.
Yes, the lyric appears to refer to the zone.
I have a friend who calls it opening the portal,
which to me sounds pretty much like the same thing.
It is good to wonder about the zone, I think,
how to get back in it. I miss the zone.

Jenny

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