10. Nowhere Man

 Another introspective John song.  (There seems to be a pattern to what I like).  So clearly John is singing about himself as he often did.  We have really nice harmony on this song and the rythm of bass and drums is pretty much a throw away.  The lead guitar is really nice.  John and George playing the lead in unisome on their fender guitars to get the best punch out of it.  I absolutely admire the harmonic on the last note of the lead.  Again we have something to this song that is totally unique and different.  It's funny how something as simple as that note can propel this song up my list.

John is confident on this introspective song.  He's okay saying he's a Nowhere Man because he knows it's not true.  There's a bit of "look at me, I'm so confident that I can call myself a Nowhere Man".  He rhymes "listen" with "missing" and it works brilliantly.  It sounds natural, not like some of his earlier rhymes which were definately contrived....remember "It Won't Be Long" when he rhymed 'fun' with 'own'.  In the same song he rhymes 'know' with 'more' but at the time it was fine even though it was a stretch.

One other thing about Nowhere Man.... It's one of the best songs to use the stereo and pan to the left or right channel.  I get such a kick out of hearing just the lead vocal or just the instruments... this stereo listening works best on Rubber Soul as I'm sure you've all discovered by now.