#here today

[american-noire]

[chaotic-so3k]

Isn't it crazy that Paul McCartney only admitted to the two songs of his being about Lennon where he professes his love to him

[alienoriana]

We can mock or grow impatient at Paul's decades-long struggle to say he loved John, but we must recognize that as early as 1982, in a pristine and almost naked song like "Here Today" -which he openly acknowledged that it was about John-, he sang "I LOVE YOU" without any hesitation or metaphors. Yet, journalists and specialized writers spent years wondering to what extent John and Paul hated each other.

[undying-love]

"We were playing hard to get"

What about the time we met? Well, I suppose that you could say that we were playing hard to get Didn't understand a thing But we could always sing

I feel like there’s not enough discussion of this verse as a whole. On the surface, the “playing hard to get” line might seem like a simple reference to whole "pretending not to care" attitude they both had at the begining, like when John sent Pete Shotton to ask Paul if he wanted to join the band (instead of asking him directly), and Paul weighing the offer with a cautious “I’ll think about it.” I'm pretty sure that’s what Paul might say if someone asked him about that line. But it’s clearly deeper than that. The line that comes after, “we didn’t understand a thing” suggests there was something more going on that they couldn’t articulate at the time. So music became their love language, ("but we could always sing"), the way they expressed emotions they couldn’t (or were afraid to) name.

Something special between us When we made love the game was over I couldn't say the words Words wouldn't get my feelings through

I see this verse from However Absurd as the more unfiltered version of that same theme expressed in Here Today. It explores a similar tension: a “game,” a "playing hard to get" dynamic, which ended once actual intimacy began, all while the difficulty of fully communicating these feelings lingered. And maybe this continued until that night in Key West, when, as Paul said, ‘there wasn't any reason to keep it all inside’; they finally gave a verbal release to the love they had previously expressed only through songs (which is why we really need to pay attention to the love songs they wrote before mid 1964, like Just Fun, If I Fell, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, etc.), even if they had already been physically intimate before.

"We got drunk and started to get kind of emotional, you know, ‘Oh, you were great when you –– I love that.’ We started [and] it all came out. On the way to that, there was a lot of soul-searching. We told each other a few truths. ‘Well, I love you. I love you, man. I love that you said that. I love you.’ And we opened up."

I’ve always loved these two pictures, especially since they were taken just a few days after the “night we cried.” You can’t help but feel that if they had actually been alone in that room, Paul would have put his hands around John’s waist lol

[justlikeheavenbyler]

I'm also into Mclennon now :)

(I just cried for like half an hour just reading the lyrics of "here today" by Paul McCartney)

[lyrics-and-sonnets]

52. Here Today

Sonnet 52

So am I as the rich whose blessèd key Can bring him to his sweet up-lockèd treasure, The which he will not ev’ry hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placèd are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet. So is the time that keeps you as my chest, Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide To make some special instant special blessed By new unfolding his imprisoned pride. -- Blessèd are you whose worthiness gives scope, -- Being had, to triumph, being lacked, to hope.

Here Today

And if I said I really knew you well What would your answer be If you were here today? Here today

Well knowing you You'd probably laugh and say That we were worlds apart If you were here today Here today

But as for me I still remember how it was before And I am holding back the tears no more I love you

What about the time we met? Well, I suppose that you could say that We were playing hard to get Didn't understand a thing But we could always sing

What about the night we cried? Because there wasn't any reason left To keep it all inside? Never understood a word But you were always there with a smile

And if I say I really loved you And was glad you came along Then you were here today, For you were in my song Here today

[undying-love]

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"I suppose what had been going through my head is this idea that...'if you were here today what would you sort of say about me writting a song about you?' Which I've never EVER done, of course. It takes finality of things to sort of concentrate and make you think, 'Oh my God, that's the end!'"