![]() ![]() In it, Lennon celebrates his enthusiasm for the night life of New York. Meanwhile, Ono’s songs range from “Sleepless Night,” a pleasantly spacey monologue, to “Your Hands,” a lumbering production number with lyrics sung in Japanese and breathily translated into English (e.g., “Your hands/Your hands/So beautiful”). Im Stepping Out is the third and last single from the final John Lennon and Yoko Ono. ![]() “Nobody Told Me,” the first single from Milk and Honey, begins promisingly with an energetic riff reminiscent of the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week,” but it immediately lapses into a routine melody with unevenly rhymed lyrics that barely make sense (“There’s Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs/Always something happening and nothing going on”). Four of the six new Lennon compositions recycle basic rock & roll licks to accompany simple, repetitive, even clichéd lyrics (“Living on borrowed time,” “I’m stepping out,” et cetera). Unfortunately, the songs on the album don’t bear comparison to the work of such illustrious writers. According to Ono’s liner notes, she and Lennon consciously adopted the image of themselves as the reincarnation of Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning for Milk and Honey the album jacket even reproduces verses by the Brownings next to lyrics by John and Yoko. The lyrics speak to the internal struggle of wanting to sleep but being unable to do so, and the fear and frustration that accompany the sleepless nights. Each is subtitled “A Heart Play,” and while the earlier album was meant to be something of a healing ritual (coming after John and Yoko’s eighteen-month separation and Lennon’s subsequent five-year “retirement” from recording), its successor seems designed as a portrait of domestic bliss. Milk and Honey was conceived as a companion piece to Double Fantasy. ![]()
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