![]() ![]() There, running my hands through her hair… Nobody can deny that there’s something there. ![]() I need my love to be here! Here, making each day of the year…Ĭhanging my life with a wave of her hand! It’s a vision for “the maiden faire” who has always eluded him. Just speak (or whisper) the words to yourself. It’s lovely, sincere poetry, written with a master’s hand. Here’s the perfect world we could have, if only…”Īnd for Paul, whose wheelhouse was generally his incredible music – not his lyrics – this song is special. So, on Revolver, he sat down to write to her one last time, to woo her, to create a love song that would haunt her and say in the most enchanting way he knew how: “This is what our life could be, if you would simply be with me. She had continued to travel the globe and forge her own way in the world, and Paul was at the end of his rope, really. Jane had continued to pursue her glamorous career as a successful actress. If you can’t find a way to be with me, we’re eventually going to come to an unhappy end.” That was the general thesis statement in “You Won’t See Me.” It was intrinsically implied in “All My Loving.” Paul’s basic theme was always there.īut Paul’s words had done no good. I need you to give up what you’re doing and be with me. But the lyrics had been pretty much the same: “I need you here. Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone!įor years, in song after song after song, only the melody had changed. On his double-sided single (with “Day Tripper”), he’d tried warning her:ĭo I have to keep on talking ’til I can’t go on? I’m looking through you you’re not the same! You don’t look different, but you have changed! I’m looking through you! Where did you go? On Rubber Soul, he’d tried exhorting her: ![]() You got me running, and there’s no fun in it! Hey, what you’re doing, I’m feeling blue and lonely! On Beatles for Sale, he’d tried laying out his case to Jane Asher logically: Paul had tried to say it a hundred different ways. ![]()
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