, from their hit album Rubber Soul
(in the United States on the Yesterday ... and Today
album). The song was written by John Lennon
(credited to Lennon–McCartney).
It was recorded on 21 and 22 October 1965. "Nowhere Man" is among the very first Beatles' songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable instance of Lennon's philosophically-oriented songwriting.
The battles that I have fought with the enemy have not compared with the ones I have fought with myself. It's been a constant struggle to maintain the hope and faith that one day I'll get my life back.
Reality depends on perspective.
Take one step forward two steps back.
Well, The Prisoner|that would be telling. (to Alyson)
There are six billion people on the planet today. Some say that makes individual lives more inconsequential, more desperate than ever before, not because of the numbers themselves but because of the anonymity. It's what makes us cling to those few precious memories that make us who we are, this is why a single photograph can have such importance and power, why the act of just holding it can validate an entire existence.
No matter how much you take away, everyone has something that belongs to them, to them and nobody else. Everyone has something and no matter how deep you dig, you'll never get it.
I took photographs because I thought they were a record of the facts, an unblinking eye, and that my camera was a recorder of truth.
The truth is unforgiving, don't shoot the messenger.
Trust me, you will always be a mystery. (to Alyson)
Just because you can't explain something, it doesn't make the opposite of that something the truth.