"Somedays"
Q: Is 'Somedays' a love song? Paul: Yes. Q: Is it written for Linda? Paul: Every love song I write is for Linda, yeah. (1997)
I honestly never gave this song too much thought and always assumed it was just about Linda. But now I believe it may be about both Linda and John, just like Two of Us. This verse in particular feels very loaded if it is about John:
We don’t need anybody else to tell us what is real Inside each one of us is love
If these lines are about John, it becomes Paul’s defiance against all the people — fans, journalists, even friends — who have spent decades trying to define what his relationship with John really was. Were they rivals? Brothers? Enemies? Paul has admitted that over time, all the speculation made him question things himself, saying that sometimes he’s wondered, “Were we even friends?” This lyric feels like him reclaiming the truth: “We don’t need anybody else to tell us what is real”. Only he and John know what they truly were to each other. It also echoes something he once said about their songwriting: that when people argue about who wrote what, it doesn’t matter, because “nobody else was there", only him and John know. Also notice the words that end the two lines, "real" and "love". Then there’s the part:
Sometimes, I laugh I laugh to think how young we were
That makes far more sense if you read it as being about John. Paul and Linda met in their late twenties; they weren’t particularly young when they fell in love. But Paul and John grew up together. And there’s also the visual detail from The Making of Flaming Pie. During the documentary, Somedays plays while the camera lingers on several of Paul’s paintings — and at the lyric “Sometimes I look into your soul,” the film zooms in on a painting Paul made of John. That one could be pure coincidence, of course.
