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The Beatles Lyrics, album "Live in Japan"
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 I Want to Tell You (George Harrison) GEORGE 1980: '…about the avalanche of thoughts that are so hard to write down or say or transmit.' I want to tell you My head is filled with things to say When you're here All those words, they seem to slip awayWhen I get near you The games begin to drag me down It's alright I'll make you maybe next time aroundBut if I seem to act unkind It's only me, it's not my mind That is confusing thingsI want to tell you I feel hung up but I don't know why I don't mind I could wait forever, I've got timeSometimes I wish I knew you well, Then I could speak my mind and tell you Maybe you'd understandI want to tell you I feel hung up but I don't know why I don't mind I could wait forever, I've got time, I've got time, I've got time Old Brown Shoe (George Harrison) I want a love that's right but right is only half of what's wrong I want a short haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe, baby, I'm in love with you I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now, I'm telling youYou know you pick me up from where some try to drag me down And when I see your smile replace every thoughtless frown Got me escaping from this zoo, baby, I'm in love with you I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now when I'm with youIf I grow up I'll be a singer wearing rings on every finger Not worrying what they or you say I'll live and love and maybe someday Who knows, baby, you may comfort meI may appear to be imperfect, my love is something you can't reject I'm changing faster than the weather if you and me should get together Who knows, baby, you may comfort meI want that love of yours, to miss that love is something I'd hate I'll make an early start, I'm making sure that I'm not late For you sweet top lip I'm in the queue, baby, I'm in love with you I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now when I'm with you I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now when I'm with you GEORGE 1980: ''Taxman' was when I first realized that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes. It was and still is typical.'JOHN 1980: 'I remember the day he (George) called to ask for help on 'Taxman,' one of his first songs. I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along because that's what he asked for. He came to me because he couldn't go to Paul. Paul wouldn't have helped him at that period. I didn't want to do it. I just sort of bit my tongue and said OK. It had been John and Paul for so long, he'd been left out because he hadn't been a songwriter up until then.'PAUL 1984: 'George wrote that and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.'GEORGE 1987: 'I was pleased to have Paul play that bit on 'Taxman.' If you notice, he did like a little Indian bit on it for me.' 1,2,3,4Hrmm!1,2...1,2,3,4.Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxmanShould five per cent appear too small Be thankful I don't take it all Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxmanIf you drive a car, I'll tax the street If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat If you get too cold I'll tax the heat If you take a walk, I'll tax your feetTaxman! Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxmanDon't ask me what I want it for (Aahh Mr. Wilson) If you don't want to pay some more (Aahh Mr. Heath) Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxmanNow my advice for those who die Declare the pennies on your eyes Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxmanAnd you're working for no one but me Taxman! Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) (George Harrison) If I Needed Someone (George Harrison) GEORGE 1980: ''If I Needed Someone' is like a million other songs written around a D chord. If you move your finger about you get various little melodies. That guitar line, or variations on it, is found in many a song, and it amazes me that people still find new permutations of the same notes.' If I needed someone to love You're the one that I'd be thinking of If I needed someoneIf I had some more time to spend Then I guess I'd be with you my friend If I needed someoneHad you come some other day Then it might not have been like this But you see now I'm too much in loveCarve your number on my wall And maybe you will get a call from me If I needed someone Ah, ah, ah, ahIf I had some more time to spend Then I guess I'd be with you my friend If I needed someoneHad you come some other day Then it might not have been like this But you see now I'm too much in loveCarve your number on my wall And maybe you will get a call from me If I needed someone Ah, ah Something (George Harrison) PAUL 1969: 'I like George's song 'Something.' For me I think it's the best he's written.'GEORGE 1969: 'I wrote the song 'Something' for the album before this one, but I never finished it off until just recently. I usually get the first few lines of words and music together, both at once… and then finish the rest of the melody. Then I have to write the words. It's like another song I wrote when we were in India. I wrote the whole first verse and just said everything I wanted to say, and so now I need to write a couple more verses. I find that much more difficult. But John gave me a handy tip. He said, 'Once you start to write a song, try to finish it straight away while you're still in the same mood.' Sometimes you go back to it and you're in a whole different state of mind. So now, I do try to finish them straight away.'GEORGE 1980: ''Something' was written on the paino while we were making the White Album. I had a break while Paul was doing some overdubbing so I went into an empty studio and began to write. That's really all there is to it, except the middle took some time to sort out. It didn't go on the White Album because we'd already finished all the tracks.' Something in the way she moves Attracts me like no other lover Something in the way she woos meI don't want to leave her now You know I believe and howSomewhere in her smile she knows That I don't need no other lover Something in her style that shows meDon't want to leave her now You know I believe and howYou're asking me will my love grow I don't know, I don't know You stick around, now it may show I don't know, I don't knowSomething in the way she knows And all I have to do is think of her Something in the things she shows meI don't want to leave her now You know I believe and how What Is Life (George Harrison) Dark Horse (George Harrison) Piggies (George Harrison) GEORGE 1980: ''Piggies' is a social comment. I was stuck for one line in the middle until my mother came up with the lyric, 'What they need is a damn good whacking' which is a nice simple way of saying they need a good hiding. It needed to rhyme with 'backing,' 'lacking,' and had absolutely nothing to do with American policemen or Californian shagnasties!'JOHN 1980: 'I gave George a couple of lines about forks and knives and eating bacon.' Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt? And for all the little piggies Life is getting worse Always having dirt to play around inHave you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts? You will find the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt Always have clean shirts to play around inIn their styes with all their backing They don't care what goes on around In their eyes there's something lacking What they need's a damn good whackingEverywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon(One more time...) Got My Mind Set on You (Rudy Clark) Cloud 9 (George Harrison) Here Comes the Sun (George Harrison) GEORGE 1980: '…written at a time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen – all this signing accounts, and 'sign this' and 'sign that.' Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided, 'I'm going to sag-off Apple,' and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. I was walking in his garden. The relief of not having to go and see all those dopey accountants was wonderful. And I was walking around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars, and wrote 'Here Comes The Sun.' Here comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say it's all rightLittle darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it's been hereHere comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say it's all rightLittle darling, the smiles returning to the faces Little darling, it seems like years since it's been hereHere comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say it's all rightSun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comesLittle darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clearHere comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say it's all right Here comes the sun, here comes the sun It's all right, it's all right My Sweet Lord (George Harrison) All Those Years Ago (George Harrison) Devil's Radio (George Harrison) Isn't It a Pity (George Harrison) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison) GEORGE 1980: 'I had a copy of the I Ching – the Book of Changes, which seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else, as opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental. The idea was in my head when I visited my parents' home in the North of England. I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book – as it would be relative to that moment, at that time. I picked up a book at random, opened it – saw 'gently weeps' – than laid the book down again and started the song. Some of the words to the song were changed before I finally recorded it.'GEORGE 1987: 'I worked on that song with John, Paul, and Ringo one day, and they were not interested in it at all. And I knew inside of me that it was a nice song. The next day I was with Eric Clapton, and I was going into the session, and I said, 'We're going to do this song. Come and play on it.' He said, 'Oh no. I can't do that. Nobody ever plays on the Beatles records.' I said, 'Look, it's my song, and I want you to play on it.' So Eric came in, and the other guys were as good as gold – because he was there. Also, it left me free to just play the rhythm and do the vocal. So Eric played that, and I thought it was really good. Then we listened to it back, and he said, 'Ah, there's a problem though; it's not Beatley enough.' So we put it through the ADT (automatic double-track) to wobble it up a bit.' I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping Still my guitar gently weepsI don't know why nobody told you How to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you They bought and sold youI look at the world and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weepsWell...I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted youI look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping [LOVE version:] I look from the wings at the play you are staging. While my guitar gently weeps Look at you all [LOVE version:] As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging Still my guitar gently weepsOh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, ohYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry) Well gonna write a little letter Gonna mail it to my local D.J. It's a rocking little record I want my jockey to play Roll over Beethoven Gotta hear it again todayYou know my temperature's rising And the jukebox blows a fuse My heart beating rhythm While my soul keeps singing the blues Roll over Beethoven And tell Tchaikovsky the newsI got a rocking pneumonia I need a shot of rhythm and blues I think I caught it off the writer Sittin' down by the rhythm reviews Roll over Beethoven We're rockin' in two by twoWell if you feel it and like it Well get your lover and reel and rock it Roll it over and move on up Just triffle further and reel and rock it Roll it over Roll over Beethoven A rocking in two by two - OooWell early in the morning I'm a giving you the warning Don't you step on my blue suede shoes Hey diddle diddle I'll play my fiddle Ain't got nothing to lose Roll over Beethoven And tell Tchaikovsky the newsYou know she wiggles like a glow worm Dance like a spinning top She's got a crazy partner Oughta see them reel an rock Long as she's got a dime The music will never stop Roll over Beethoven Roll over Beethoven Roll over Beethoven Roll over Beethoven Roll over Beethoven Dig to these rhythm and blues |
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