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

[otterdaemmerung.livejournal.com]

As a prog-rock fan who just happened to stumble across your LJ, I just wanna say that "It's All Too Much" is one of my absolute favorite Beatles songs as well. George was indeed the most fascinating Beatle.

I still remember how I was introduced to their more psychedelic output. During "Spirit Week" at high school when I was in the 10th grade, one of the themed days of the week was "Hippie Day." My cross-eyed, bearish World History teacher, a baby-boomer, rented the library's record player and brought in his Beatles White Album and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow LPs for us to hear and learn about those days gone by.

Eventually in college a friend of mine happened to be a major Beatles fan and so I was able to hear all that stuff and to see the wonderful Yellow Submarine movie. I love the sound was remixed into 5.1 surround for its DVD release: when Glove fires up and blasts across the screen, the sound blasts from side to side. Majorly cool! :)

Yellow Submarine

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

I love the remixed sound on the Yellow Submarine DVD, and the restored "Hey Bulldog" that was cut from US prints of the film, but...

[soapbox]

I'm stupefied by the decision to shave off the top and bottom of the image and pretend it was made in a "widescreen" ratio... It was created in the "full screen" ratio common to TV sets of the era; to reformat it and pretend otherwise does a severe disservice to the film.

[/soapbox]

Re: Yellow Submarine

[otterdaemmerung.livejournal.com]

>>It was created in the "full screen" ratio common to TV sets of the era...

Are you absolutely sure? According to IMDB.com, it was both filmed and released on DVD in the aspect ratio of 1.66.

Yellow Submarine Aspect Ratio

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

Well, I have an old copy of the original videocassette release, which is 3x4, and not p&s. There is stuff at the top & bottom of the image in the videocassette version that is cropped out of the DVD version...

Re: Yellow Submarine Aspect Ratio

[otterdaemmerung.livejournal.com]

Hmm... strange, then. I'd suggest it was created "open matte," but this is animation, not film...