Blackbird Song Analysis

A specific piece of music that tempers my life is “Blackbird” by the Beatles. When I was younger, I first heard this song because of my brother. He introduced into the realm of the Beatles, and this was one of the first songs I had ever heard by them. I enjoyed everything about the song, from its melody to its instrumentation. Eventually, I started to learn guitar, and was able to teach myself the main loop of the song. Since then, it has been hard for me to pick up a guitar and not play “Blackbird”. Suffice it to say, “Blackbird” offers to me a sense of familiarity, to the days in which I was first introduced to the song and discovered the inspiration behind it. My relationship with “Blackbird” is represented in a passage from A Discussion
Whenever I cross the street to catch the bus, the driver notices me. Without my asking, he opens the doors and welcomes me onto the bus. This ritual relates dearly to the description given by Fingarette. It is said within Human Community as Holy Rite, “I see you on the street; I smile, walk toward you, put out my hand to shake yours. And behold - without any command, stratagem, force, special tricks or tools, without any effort on my part to make you do so, you spontaneously turn toward me, return my smile, raise your hand toward mine. We shake hands - not by my pulling your hand up and down or your pulling mine but by spontaneous and perfect cooperative action” (Fingarette 9). The ritual that occurs between the bus driver and I is representative of this description. I give him no command to open the doors, but as he sees my crossing the street, he recognizes me and makes it his duty to welcome me aboard. Much like with the action of shaking one’s hand, there is no pulling or forcefulness involved. Hence, this ritual brings order to my life in a multitude of ways. Firstly, it offers familiarity, as it is nice to know someone recognizes me. However, the ritual also offers the notion of human harmony. As written by Fingarette, “Rite brings out forcefully not only the harmony and beauty of social forms, the inherent and ultimate dignity of human intercourse; it brings out also the moral perfection implicit in achieving one’s ends by dealing with others as beings of equal dignity, as free co participants in li” (Fingarette 16). The ritual between the bus driver and I reveals that two humans see each other, and without any outside pressure, display acts of kindness that can be defined as harmony and