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Interpretations:Savoy Truffle

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This song, quite simply, is about candy and what happens to your teeth when you eat too much of it. -- TheNintenGenius

This is actually a song about addiction - though in this case it's chocolate (specifically Good News chocolates) rather than drugs. It messes with your teeth and your head. It was inspired by Eric Clapton's 1968 chocolate addiction witnessed by George Harrison at the sessions for While My Guitar Gently Weeps. "I feel your taste all the time we're apart" - definitely addiction!

The song also contains a sly dig at Paul McCartney's tendancy to write cheesy, shallow songs (and his insistance on forcing the band to do dozens of takes of them) rather than writing from the heart: "We all know ObLaDi ObLaDa, but can you show me where YOU are??"

--ASL

I think this song is a (possibly obsessive compulsive) dentist watching a person with a sweet tooth as they eat all of these various treats. He is just imagining the damage her teeth are getting.

I say she because the song has a slightly seductive tone of the music, indicating maybe a slight infatuation with this person

This makes the dentist think that soon the girl he is watching will have to get dentures from her indulgence. I also think the dentist might be possibly stalking this girl from the sheer large amount of luxury deserts he lists. I assume he is watching her eat all of these regardless of what else she eats as it is irrelevant to him.

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