The Beatles
The Beatles were a phenomenally popular rock band from Liverpool, England. Each of the four members, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, went on to successful solo careers.
Song lyrics
All songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, unless noted.
Singles
- Baby's good to me, you know,
She's happy as can be, you know,
She said so.
I'm in love with her and I feel fine.I'm so glad that she's my little girl.
She's so glad she's telling all the world.- I Feel Fine (1964)
- My love don't give me presents,
Turn me on when I get lonely,
People tell me that she's only foolin',
I know she isn't.
She's a woman, she's a woman.- She's a Woman (1964)
- Got a good reason for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now.
She was a day tripper, a one way ticket yeah
It took me so long to find out, and I found out.- Day Tripper (1965)
- Try to see it my way
Do I have to keep on talking 'til I can't go on?
While you see it your way
Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone
We can work it out
We can work it out.- We Can Work It Out (1965)
- When the rain comes they run and hide their heads.
They might as well be dead,
If the rain comes, if the rain comes.- Rain (1966)
- Lady Madonna children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.
Who finds the money when you pay the rent?
Did you think that money was heaven sent?- Lady Madonna (1968)
- Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth
Without looking out of my window
I can know the ways of Heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows.- The Inner Light (1968)
- Hey Jude don't make it bad,
Take a sad song and make it better,
Remember, to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.- Hey Jude (1968)
- Christ! You know it ain't easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
They're going to crucify me.- The Ballad of John and Yoko (1969)
- Whatever happened to the life that we once knew
Can we really live without each other?
Where did we lose the touch
That seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so
Free as a bird.- Free As A Bird (recorded 1977, released 1995)
- All my little plans and schemes,
lost like some forgotten dreams,
seems that all I really was doing
was waiting for you.- Real Love (recorded 1980, released 1988)
Please Please Me (1963)
- Well, she was just seventeen,
You know what I mean,
And the way she looked was way beyond compare,
So how could I dance with another,
Oh when I saw her standing there
- Last night I said these words to my girl
I know you never even try girl
Come on, come on, come on, come on,
Please please me oh yeah like I please you.
- Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.
- As I write this letter, send my love to you,
Remember that I'll always be in love with you.
Treasure these few words till we're together
Keep all my love forever.
P.S. I love you, you, you, you.
- Listen, do you want to know a secret,
Do you promise not to tell, Whoa-o-oh
Closer let me whisper in your ear,
Say the words you long to hear,
I'm in love with you, ooh-o-ooh.
With the Beatles (1963)
- Close your eyes and I'll kiss you,
Tomorrow I'll miss you,
Remember I'll always be true,
And then while I'm away,
I'll write home every day,
And I'll send all my loving to you.
- Tell me that you love me baby,
Like no other can.
Love me like no other baby,
Like no other can.
I wanna be your man,
I wanna be your man.
- It feels so right now, hold me tight,
Tell me I'm the only one,
And then I might,
Never be the lonely one.
So hold me tight, to-night, to-night,
It's you, you you you - oo-oo - oo-oo.
- Whenever I... want you around yeh,
All I gotta do...
Is call you on the phone,
And you'll come running home,
Yeh that's all I... gotta do.
Meet The Beatles! (1964)
- Oh yeah, I´ll tell you something
I think you´ll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand.
- Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare.
So how could I dance with another?
Oh, when I saw her standing there.
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
- It's been a hard day's night,
And I've been working like a dog,
It's been a hard day's night,
I should be sleeping like a log,
But when I get home to you,
I find the things that you do,
Will make me feel alright.
- You know I work all day,
To get you money to buy you things,
And it's worth it just to hear you say,
You're gonna give me ev'rything,
So why on earth should I moan,
‘Cos when I get you alone, You know I feel okay.- A Hard Day's Night
- I should have known better with a girl like you,
That I would love everything that you do,
And I do, hey hey hey, and I do.
- She gives me ev'rything,
And tenderly,
The kiss my lover brings,
She brings to me,
And I love her.
- I don't care too much for money.
For money can't buy me love.
- I got something to say that might cause you pain,
If I catch you talking to that boy again,
I'm gonna let you down, and leave you flat.
Because I told you before, oh, you can't do that.
Beatles for Sale (1964)
- I'm a loser,
And I've lost someone who's near to me.
I'm a loser,
And I'm not what I appear to be.
- One day you'll look and see I've gone,
For tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the sun.
Some day you'll know I was the one,
But tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the sun.
- Ooh I need your love babe, guess you know it's true,
Hope you need my love babe just like I need you,
Hold me, love me,
Hold me, love me,
I ain't got nothin' but love babe,
Eight days a week.
Help! (1965)
- Help me if you can, I'm feeling down,
And I do appreciate you being around,
Help me get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me?
- Ev'rywhere people stare,
Each and ev'ry day.
I can see them laugh at me,
And I hear them say.
Hey, you've got hide your love away.
- She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ri - hi - hide,
She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care.
- I've just seen a face I can't forget the time or place where we just met,
She's just the girl for me and I want the world to see we've met.
- Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Rubber Soul (1965)
- Asked a girl what she wanted to be,
She said, baby can't you see?
I wanna be famous, a star of the screen,
But you can do something in between.
Baby, you can drive my car, yes I'm gonna be a star,
Baby, you can drive my car, and maybe I'll love you.
- I once had a girl,
Or should I say
She once had me.
She showed me her room,
Isn't it good?
Norwegian wood.
- He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his Nowhere plans for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
- Michelle ma belle
These are words that go together well,
My Michelle,
Michelle ma belle,
Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble.
- Was she told when she was young the pain would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure,
Will she still believe it when he's dead?
Ah girl, girl.
- Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more.
Revolver (1966)
- If 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 feet.
Taxman.
‘Cos I'm the Taxman,
Yeah, I'm the Taxman.- Taxman, written by George Harrison
- Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been,
Lives in a dream.
Waits at the window, wearing a 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?- Eleanor Rigby
- So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the sea of green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine.
- I need to laugh and when the sun is out,
I've got something I can laugh about.
I feel good in a special way,
I'm in love and it's a sunny day.
- Turn off your mind
Relax and float down stream.
It is not dying
It is not dying.
Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (1967)
- It was twenty years ago today,
that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
They've been going in and out of style
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile.
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
- What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of key.
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends.
- Picture yourself in boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
- I used to get mad at my school
The teachers who taught me weren't cool.
You're holding me down, turning me round
Filling me up with your rules.
I've got to admit it's getting better,
A little better all the time.
- I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where will it go.
- We were talking
About the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves
Behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it's far too late
When they pass away.- Within You Without You, written by George Harrison
- Will you still need me, will you still feed me
when I'm sixty-four?
- I read the news today, oh boy.
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh.
I saw the photograph.
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Roll up for the Mystery Tour
The Magical Mystery Tour is coming to take you away
Coming to take you away
The Magical Mystery Tour is dying to take you away
Dying to take you away - take you today.
- But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down.
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning round.
- Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, oooooh, they are the eggman, ooooh, -
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
- Let me take you down,
‘Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about.
- How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
Now that you know who you are,
What do you want to be?
- There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
All you need is love.
The Beatles (The White Album) (1968)
- Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out.
They leave the West behind.
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout.
That Georgia's always on my mind.
I'm back in the USSR.
You don't know how lucky you are, boys.
Back in the USSR.
- Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play.
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day.
The sun is up, the sky is blue.
It's beautiful and so are you.
- I told you about Strawberry Fields
You know the place where nothing is real.
Well here's another place you can go,
Where everything flows.
- Happy ever after in the market place
Desmond lets the children lend a hand.
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening she still sings it with the band.
- I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you;
They bought and sold you.
I look at the world and I notice it's turning,
While my guitar gently weeps.- While My Guitar Gently Weeps, written by George Harrison
- Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
- Now the doctor came in, stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table.
He said, 'Rocky you met your match'
And Rocky said, 'Doc it's only a scratch
And I'll be better, I'll be better Doc as soon as I am able.'
- You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan.
You ask me for a contribution,
Well, you know
We're doing what we can.
Yellow Submarine (1968)
- Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles.
What makes you think you're something special when you smile.
- It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear,
Or how I fare,
Or if my hair is brown.
As it's only a Northern Song.- Only a Northern Song, written by George Harrison
Abbey Road (1969)
- He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.
Come together right now over me.
- Got to be good looking
Cause he's so hard to see.- Come Together
- Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover,
Something in the way she woos me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.- Something, written by George Harrison
- Oh what joy for every girl and boy knowing they're happy and they're safe.
We would be so happy, you and me, no one there to tell us what to do,
I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden with you.- Octopus's Garden, written by Ringo Starr
- Little darling I feel that ice is slowly melting,
Little darling it seems like years since it's been clear,
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
It's all right, it's all right.- Here Comes the Sun, written by George Harrison
- Once there was a way to get back homeward.
Once there was a way to get back home.
Sleep pretty darling do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby.
- And in the end
the love you take
is equal to the love you make.
Let It Be (1970)
- Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
- When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
- And when the broken-hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.- Let It Be
- The long and winding road that leads to your door,
Will never disappear, I've seen that road before
It always leads me here, leads me to your door.
- Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
Bought some California Grass.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
