What a strange phrase that is: getting 'back in the saddle'. I like these short phrase. This one implies that you have already been in the saddle. Well, you would have had to have been to be talking about getting back in. I suppose I could get back into the posting-every-day saddle.
The Beatles, on the other hand, suggest that you could/should Get back to where you once belonged. Of course, the Beatles don't mention anything about saddles. The lyrics are just about a character called Jojo and then another character called Loretta, and that they should 'get back to where they both belonged'. Not belong, note, but belonged, implying that each had already experience 'belonging' somewhere.
This Loretta person, according to the Beatles, "...thought she was a woman but she was another man". Hmm........ a bit confusing, that. How would you not know this sort of thing? But it is only a song after all, and there probably isn't an actual Loretta or Jojo, anyway, so it's probably not as complicated as I first thought.
I can't help but wonder, though........ What would happen if Loretta were to get back in the saddle? Would she feel more like a woman or a man?
Life: we can but ponder. Ponder and post.
The Beatles, on the other hand, suggest that you could/should Get back to where you once belonged. Of course, the Beatles don't mention anything about saddles. The lyrics are just about a character called Jojo and then another character called Loretta, and that they should 'get back to where they both belonged'. Not belong, note, but belonged, implying that each had already experience 'belonging' somewhere.
This Loretta person, according to the Beatles, "...thought she was a woman but she was another man". Hmm........ a bit confusing, that. How would you not know this sort of thing? But it is only a song after all, and there probably isn't an actual Loretta or Jojo, anyway, so it's probably not as complicated as I first thought.
I can't help but wonder, though........ What would happen if Loretta were to get back in the saddle? Would she feel more like a woman or a man?
Life: we can but ponder. Ponder and post.
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