Deep music: the Beatles and Shakespeare

I like music because it is deep and can have multiple meanings.  The lyrics of music can often be similar to poetry or poetry itself.

I had to read a Shakepearean Sonnet in a Poetry class and the first thing I thought of was the Beatles...specifically, "Something".

This specific Sonnet was Sonnet 130. The quote from the sonnet is:

"My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare."

Compare this to:

"Something in the way she moves,  Attracts me like no other lover."

"Something" never describes physical characteristics that attract them.  Its just "something" in her.  The song is purposely vague and I think its because they didn't want to bring physical characteristics in.  They wanted to say "love isn't about looks, its about an indescribable feeling you get when you see the other person".

Seems common now, but how about in 1600 when people didn't marry for love? They felt it, but couldn't express it.  Sappy similes like "your eyes are like the midday sun" were all the rage.  He used them, mostly to show sappy love like Romeo & Juliet's.  He makes fun of sappy love most of  the poem, but then comes out with his knockout that "love is blind".

Yes, the Beatles mirrored Shakespeare.  Its hard not to, the guy was just so ahead of his time.