 Genius Lyrics
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The Beatles – Paperback Writer
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This song was released in 1966, and its creation was spawned when McCartney was requested to “not make a song about love.” The primary inspiration came from Macca finding Ringo
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The Beatles – Oh! Darling
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McCartney-written ditty from Abbey Road. The relatively simple lyrical content consists of him pleading with a girl, imploring her not to leave him.
Due to the intense, and
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The Beatles – Hey Bulldog
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These lyrics reflect John Lennon’s own philosophy of how people say “No one understands me” in self-pity, when in reality, there is someone out there who is experiencing the same
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The Beatles – Nowhere Man
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“Nowhere Man” is the fourth track of The Beatles' album Rubber Soul. In a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon recalled the background to this song: “I remember I was just
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The Beatles – The Fool on the Hill
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Released in 1967 on the Magical Mystery Tour album.
McCartney wrote the song and has revealed it to be about “someone like Maharishi”, a guru the Beatles followed in India.
The
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The Beatles – Rain
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Much like Revolver’s “I’m Only Sleeping”, “Rain” found The Beatles exploring LSD-influenced feelings of detachment from the real world, and the belief that heightened consciousness
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The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere
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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver.
A simple love song and Mojo Magazine’s 4th best song ever written, “Here, There And Everywhere
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The Beatles – I'm Only Sleeping
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“I’m Only Sleeping” is the third track of 1966’s Revolver, an album that ended up being a turning point in The Beatles' career as they moved on from love songs to more experimental
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The Beatles – You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
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“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” is the third track on The Beatles' album Help!. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, they both said that Lennon was influenced by Bob
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The Beatles – Yer Blues
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McCartney told Lennon not to title this song “Yer Blues,” but “just say it straight.” However he kept the title as he was self conscious about singing blues. In the January 1971
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The Beatles – Yesterday
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“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
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The Beatles – Day Tripper
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A non-album single written by Lennon and McCartney in October 1965, “Day Tripper” is a bluesy sibling of sorts to “Drive My Car”, which was recorded a few days before. Fresh from a
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The Beatles – And I Love Her
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The Beatles began recording “And I Love Her” on 25 February, 1964. They recorded two takes that day, with a full electric line-up, but it was evidently not the sound they were
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The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
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The only title track for a Beatles film that didn’t become a single, “Magical Mystery Tour” invites listeners – and subsequently, viewers – to take a journey that’s probably more
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The Beatles – Mother Nature's Son
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A typically upbeat acoustic ditty by McCartney, composed after he was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi in India.
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The Beatles – Golden Slumbers
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“Golden Slumbers” is the sixth part of the climactic medley on their 1969 album, Abbey Road. “Golden Slumbers” is followed by “Carry That Weight” and begins the progression that
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The Beatles – I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is one of the last songs The Beatles ever recorded. It appears as the closing track to Abbey Road’s A-side, but the core of the composition was
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The Beatles – Your Mother Should Know
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During the performance of “Your Mother Should Know” in the film Magical Mystery Tour, Paul is seen wearing a black rose, as opposed to the red ones worn by the other Beatles. This
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The Beatles – I'm a Loser
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“I’m a Loser,” written primarily by John Lennon, is track two on Beatles For Sale. They almost released it as a single, but opted for “I Feel Fine” instead.
Barry Miles' Beatles
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The Beatles – I Feel Fine
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“I Feel Fine,” written primarily by John Lennon, was released as a single in 1964, with “She’s a Woman” as the B side.
Interestingly, the song features one of the first uses of
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The Beatles – All My Loving
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Unusually for McCartney, the lyrics to All My Loving came before the music.
It was the first song I’d ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some
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The Beatles – Roll Over Beethoven
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[Verse 1: George Harrison] / Well, gonna write a little letter / Gonna mail it to my local DJ / It's a rocking little record / I want my jockey to play / Roll over, Beethoven
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The Beatles – Come Together
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“Come Together” is the opening track to Abbey Road, written by John Lennon and to be used as a campaign song for famed LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary, who was running for Governor of
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The Beatles – Eight Days a Week
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“Eight Days a Week” was originally issued in 1964 as a single from Beatles for Sale. However, it wasn’t released in the US until 1965. It came out in advance of the 1965 album
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The Beatles – Good Night
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This tender closing song from The White Album was written by John Lennon as a lullaby for his son Julian, and sung by Ringo Starr.
No other Beatles appear on the recording
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The Beatles – Something
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“Something” is the first George Harrison penned track on Abbey Road. It is hailed as one of the greatest love songs of all time by Frank Sinatra, who mistakenly introduced it in
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The Beatles – Lady Madonna
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“Lady Madonna” is a single released by the Beatles in 1968, with its B-side track as “The Inner Light”.
Paul McCartney says the song works as a tribute to women everywhere, as it
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The Beatles – In My Life
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“In My Life” is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The song originated with Lennon, and while McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent
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The Beatles – Can't Buy Me Love
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A number-one hit single for The Beatles, primarily written by Paul McCartney, “Can’t Buy Me Love” was one of their favorite live cuts back in the heyday of Beatlemania. Its
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The Beatles – Helter Skelter
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A “helter skelter” is an amusement park ride with a slide built in a spiral around a high tower (it’s also British slang, meaning “in disorderly haste or confusion”)
Paul
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The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye
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Written by Paul McCartney, though credited to Lennon-McCartney, “Hello, Goodbye” is the A-side to “I Am the Walrus” and was released on 24 November 1967.
The song discusses the
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The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is saying goodbye to the crowd. This was the final song recorded for the album, and it segues smoothly into the closing track, “A Day In The
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The Beatles – Hey Jude
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Originally titled “Hey Jules,” named after John Lennon’s son Julian, this song was written by Paul McCartney to comfort him during John and Cynthia’s divorce. John Lennon stated
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The Beatles – I've Got a Feeling
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This song is a combination of three unfinished song fragments; McCartney’s “I’ve Got a Feeling”, Lennon’s “Everybody Had a Hard Year”, and “Watching Rainbows”.
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The Beatles – Happiness is a Warm Gun
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“Happiness is a Warm Gun” was another one which was banned on the radio – they said it was about shooting up drugs. But they were advertising guns and I thought it was so crazy
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The Beatles – Run for Your Life
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The closing track on Rubber Soul, like several other tracks on the record, was mainly written by John Lennon, despite being credited to Lennon-McCartney. Its lyrics deal with an
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The Beatles – Taxman
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“Taxman” was only the sixth song by George Harrison that appeared on a Beatles album. It was released as the opening track on Revolver. It’s a powerful piece of guitar rock with a
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The Beatles – Twist and Shout
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“Twist and Shout” was originally by The Top Notes in 1960; the band The Isley Brothers did a cover of it in 1962. The Beatles did a second cover of the song in 1963. This song was
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The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand
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This is the song that topped the U.S. charts and made The Beatles, in their own words, “toppermost of the poppermost” (sourced here. This is where Beatlemania took off on a global
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