It's All Too Much

[daddytodd]

My favorite Beatles song.

No, really!

Including "lost" verse not included on the released version (but featured in the film "Yellow Submarine")



It's All Too Much
By George Harrison

(Too Much! Ah... Ah... Ah)

It's all too much
It's all too much

When I look into your eyes
your love is there for me
And the more I go inside
the more there is to see

It's all too much for me to take
the love that's shining all around you
Everywhere it's what you make
for us to take it's all too much

Floating down the stream of time
from life to life with me
Makes no difference where you are
or where you'd like to be

It's all too much for me to take
the love that's shining all around here
All the world is birthday cake
so take a piece, but not too much

Sail me on a silver sun
where I know that I'm free
Show me that I'm everywhere
and get me home for tea

It's all too much for me to take
there's plenty there for everybody
The more you give, the more you get
the more it is only too much

Nice to have the time to take
this opportunity
Time for me to look at you
and you to look at me

It's all too much for me to see
the love that's shining all around here
The more I learn the less I know
But what I do is all too much

It's all too much for me to take
the love that's shining all around you
Everywhere it's what you make
for us to takei it's all too much

It's too much... Ah!
It's too much

With your long blonde hair
And your eyes of blue

With your long blonde hair
and your eyes of blue
you're too much... Ah!
We are dead

Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much, too much, too much,
Too much, too much... Etc.

Comments

[danthered.livejournal.com]

I know the song off by heart...don't think I've ever run into anyone for whom it's a favourite, though!

Too Much

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

It was recorded just after the sessions for "Sgt. Pepper's" were wrapped up.

Apparently neither the band nor the song's composer thought very much of it. It was handed over to the producers of "Yellow Submarine" for inclusion in the film, along with three other compositions deemed inconsequential ("It's Only a Northern Song", "All Together Now" and "Baby You're a Rich Man") in the late spring / early summer of 1967 ("Hey Bulldog" was not added to the film until very late; that song was not even recorded until February, 1968)

I've always wished that "It's All Too Much" had been included as the lead track on side 2 of "Sgt. Pepper's", instead of the dreary "Within You Without You," a song I dislike. "It's All Too Much" captures the 1967 zeitgeist far better than George's raga rock throwaway.

Re: Too Much

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Yeah, George certainly did have a thing for dilrubas and tablas and sitars buzzing dreamily in the background, didn't he? I hadn't thought about it until you mentioned it, but yeah, "It's All Too Much" probably would've fit reasonably well on SPLHCB.

"Only a Northern Song" was actually written as a throwaway, a jab at the Northern Songs Ltd. execs who demanded several more tracks to fill a quota and were perceived by the band as prizing quantity and not caring about quality.

"All Together Now" is a fun ditty with a smashing orangey naughty bit in the lyrics, and works very well to set the stage for the dark and angry "Hey, Bulldog" immediately following it on the MMT soundtrack.

"Baby You're A Rich Man" was pointed at Eppie—Brian Epstein—which prompted Lennon to sing "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew!" on a few of the refrains (the published lyric is "Baby, you're a rich man, too!".)

There was a period of years during which I listened to literally nothing but The Beatles. Wanna hear 36 different versions of Strawberry Fields Forever? I've got 'em...

Re: Too Much

[kumberbear.livejournal.com]

...to hear you guys talking about The Beatles, my mind drifted back to the days when I lived for the next Beatles record..single or album...
damn, seems like a dream...a wonderful dream!!!

SMiLE

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

I was in that space last summer and early fall, waiting for Brian Wilson's SMiLE to come out. I've been waiting for that one since I was 16.

The anticipation was almost as good as actually getting to hear the music. Almost.