Eleanor Rigby - John Lennon and Paul McCartney

I look at all the lonely people!
I look at all the lonely people!

Eleanor Rigby 
Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been,
Lives in a dream,
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door.
Who is it for?

All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie,
Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear,
No one comes near. 
Look at him working, 
Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there.
What does he care?

All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong?

Eleanor Rigby 
Died in the church and was buried along with her name.
Nobody came.
Father McKenzie, 
Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave,
No one was saved.

All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong?

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRNrDaoMqw

     This song really stood out to me. Eleanor Rigby works at the church by picking up rice where weddings have been. She wants to meet a guy and get married. She no longer wants to be the one who pick up rice at weddings, she wants someone else to pick up rice during her wedding. "Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door." Eleanor wears a mask, she puts forth a personality that isn't true to herself, she hides her loneliness. Eleanor "Died in the church and was buried along with her name./Nobody came." Father McKenzie writes the words to a sermon that no one hears and he also lives alone and he wasn't saved either. If Eleanor had looked right in front of her, she would have seen Father McKenzie and they could have saved each other. Eleanor was too busy dreaming of a guy that never came, when she should have just looked right in front of her. This song made me realize that true love could be staring me right in the face but I would be too oblivious to see it. I need to learn to see everything and not just my own wants and desires, because what i've been looking for could be right in front of me.