GUNSHIP - Eleanor Rigby [Official Lyric Video]

💀HAPPY HALLOWEEN 💀 to all our amazing fans ❤️
We wanted to do something a little different this year and so here’s our cover of @TheBeatles’s ‘Eleanor Rigby’. What a year… To anyone out there struggling with isolation and loneliness, this one’s for you.

The song ‘Eleanor Rigby’ really is a sad and extremely poignant song, dealing with issues of disillusionment, loneliness, and isolation in society.
‘Look at all the lonely people' - is a lyric that has stuck with us forever.
We wondered about a modern day Eleanor Rigby, and what it would be like if a character like her was alive today and experiencing 2020. We felt some of the song’s themes dovetailed closely with the negative revelations surrounding the mass adoption of social media, phone addiction and the proliferation of the ‘pseudo-connections’ these platforms provide. The artwork for our cover version shows a young ‘Eleanor Rigby’, illuminated by her device, dependent on it, manipulated by it, and totally in the clutches of addiction to it. ‘Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door’ - this facade or metaphorical mask that she puts on is now perhaps equivalent to today’s face modifying filters. The notion of ‘keeping up appearances’ despite problems / unhappiness is problematic. The pandemic and resulting lockdowns have of course also given many of us a strong experience of loneliness in the real world. We have been trying to deal with our personal experience of this by being creative, which has been a much needed port in the storm. We’ve alway found music to be a great comfort and we hope you guys do too. HUGE love to all you guys. We’re working hard to finish up album 3!

Special thanks to Paul McCartney
#GUNSHIP #EleanorRigby #TheBeatles #Beatles #Isolation #Loneliness #Comfort

Written by: Lennon & McCartney
Produced by: Dan Haigh, Alex Westaway & Alex Gingell
Mixed by: Carl Brown & James Pinder

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- LYRICS -
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, 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?
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
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 (ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people (ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all belong?

#GUNSHIP #Synthwave #Cinematic #EleanorRigby #TheBeatles #Beatles

[oldgrimrascal]

as an actual fan of the this beatles era this had to be heard to be believed, what an epic way to drag this song into the future, well done guys *mid air high five*

[Trust.The.illuminati]

my wife loves this version so much she had a little cry at the end. Not of sadness but of joy, Thank you Gunship for bringing a little light into these dark times.

[DeadHierophant]

Me at 0:00 - "Hmmm, this is one of my favorite Beatles songs of all time. I love Gunship but they better not mess up the cover."
Me at 0:42 - "I am a fool and my skepticism was unfounded."

[wurstmann]

The Intro is a variation of THE FOG by John Carpenter.

[neofight]

This is an absolute masterpiece. Stunning.

...also it must be made into an extended version!

[seamusdillon]

Wow, this was an unexpected surprise! Smashes Halloween 2020 right in the feels <3

[catburglar]

Imagine some people in this crazy wasteland we call our world don't listen to Gunship...
Now that just makes me sad. These poor people.

[obsidianskystudiogaming]

The imagery is perfect too. Powerful.

The Beatles/Gunship was not something I knew I needed until I heard it.

[matt]

We are so lucky to have you, gunship. You make everything better. Everything. Cover songs. Life. Everything.

[noaccount]

This song has a weird flavour, like someone mixed liquorice and vanilla. Love it (the cover)

[rachelsantiago]

I have to admit that its not even all that often that a remake does its original justice but this hits. Something I can bring home to my dad.

[DaveyKanabus]

This is the best cover of any song I've ever heard. Alex, Alex, Dan... I want you to know that Gunship is easily and objectively the greatest band currently making music, and a solid contender for the greatest band that ever did. When I first heard Dark All Day, you guys quickly made the #1 spot on my list of favourite bands which had been the same for years before discovering you.

Phenomenal work as always. Thank you.

[geoffreypotter]

The opening sounds like a cross between the Stranger Things theme and a song from Final Fantasy 1... and I love it!

[lucasemley]

I’ve only just found Gunship recently. Pretty cool to be so early to a new release

[rolandjarlarndt]

Great composing. And a great song in general that was even relevant before the pandemic! The synths also take me back to the good old Yazoo days.

[sulakkalus]

This song is like the confluence of Tangerine Dream and The Beatles and I didn’t know how badly I needed it.

[kennyjackson]

Now this is why GUNSHIP are in their own league... they cover a Beatles song...and its ultra poignant as hell. ALL THE FEELS. WE NEED THIS IN 2020!

[genkimachina]

Stranger Things got me into Synthwave, Gunship keeps me there.

[usergrade]

Gunship - the world needs more of it right now. Love it!

[OutlandTV]

The new Gunship cover of Eleanor Rigby is OUT OF THIS WORLD. It takes a certain musical prowess to cover a song like this, or even choose to do so. Well done lads top job.