Editing Rubber Soul (section)

===="Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"====
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Lennon said he wrote "[[Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)|Norwegian Wood]]" about an extramarital affair and that he worded the narrative to hide the truth from his wife, [[Cynthia Lennon|Cynthia]].{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=217}} The lyrics sketch a failed meeting between the singer and a mysterious girl, where she goes to bed and he sleeps in the bath;<ref name="Unterberger/NW">{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|title=The Beatles 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)'|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/t819431|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229091108/http://www.allmusic.com/song/t819431|archive-date=29 December 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> in retaliation at the girl's aloofness, the singer decides to burn down her pine-panelled home.{{sfn|Jackson|2015|p=257}}{{refn|group=nb|According to music journalist [[Rob Sheffield]], the lyrics are so cryptic that the listener is left wondering: "does he light up a joint at the end or burn the girl's house down?"{{sfn|Brackett|Hoard|2004|p=53}}}} Arranged in {{music|time|12|8}} time,<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Norwegian Wood|title=The Beatles '65|publisher=Music Sales|location=London|year=1977|pages=38–39}}</ref> and in the English folk style, the song has a [[Mixolydian mode|Mixolydian]] melody that results in a [[Drone (music)|drone]] effect in the acoustic guitars, complementing the sitar part, though switches to parallel scale of E Dorian during its middle eight.{{sfn|Everett|2001|pp=313–14}} The narrative draws heavily on Dylan's style through its use of ambiguity.<ref name="Unterberger/NW" />{{sfn|Luhrssen|Larson|2017|p=25}} In author Jonathan Gould's description, the song is an "emotional black comedy",{{sfn|Gould|2007|p=297}} while Decker recognises it as a continuation of the "interrogation of sexual ambiguities" and "muddled sense of power" displayed in "Drive My Car".{{sfn|Decker|2009|p=79}}
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