The song itself is incredible, with the mood of it seeming to mirror the ascent of a soul to heaven after death, something which one of the band once initially stated.

歌曲本身显得不可思议，其情绪似乎是在隐射死后灵魂升入天堂，乐队成员中的一位曾经在最初说过这样的话。

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Socrates, Plato tells us, heard the song of a swan on the day of his death.

柏拉图说，苏格拉底死的那一天听到天鹅的歌声。

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Lennon wrote the song after reading about the death of his friend, Guinness heir Tara Browne, in the Daily Mail on 17 January 1967.

1967年1月17日，列侬在《每日邮报》上看到他的朋友塔拉·布朗尼(爱尔兰著名酿酒商Guinness的后代)的死讯后，创作了这首歌曲。

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Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself": And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

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They only ever had one number one single, a cover of John Lennon's song Jealous Guy, recorded in the wake of the former Beatle's death.

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