#here today

[undying-love]

Paul singing Here Today in 2004. He repeats the "I Love You" part four times

[evrythingisabeatlesreferance]

[talulahsjusthere]

Me whenever Here Today or Now and Then play on my Spotify playlist

[javelinbk]

Never beating the ‘Liverpool men don’t say I love you’ allegations

Q: What would you say to John, or to George, if they were here today?

Paul: I would say, ‘I love you’… ‘cause growing up in Liverpool, you never said that… you never told a guy you loved him. Unless he was like, your brother, or something. And they were brothers.

Paul McCartney talking to David Tedeschi at his Eyes of the Storm exhibition, as featured in Beatles ‘64

[therealsaintscully]

This is the first/only time that I remember Paul claiming that the Jacksonville things included all four of them! Weird? What do you think, @tavolgisvist @i-am-the-oyster?

[sallamie]

“ and if i say ,, i really loved you and was glad you came along ”

harry and cooper — twin peaks

[i-am-the-oyster]

I noticed something about Here Today. Look at how the first verse would end if it was completed the way the last is:

Well, knowing you, you'd probably laugh And say that we were worlds apart If you were here today, ooh [For you were in my ...., ooh] Here today

...

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

[luigixd]

I wish things played out differently.

[got-ticket-to-ride]

Paul's lyrics from Here Today reminds me of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 in a way that it immortalizes a loved one and the constancy of affection:

"And if I say I really loved you and was glad you came along

When you were here today

For you were in my song"

Sonnet 18 in modern English:

"And you will never die, as you will live on in my enduring poetry.

As long as there are people still alive to read poems this sonnet will live, and you will live in it."

[strwbryfeels]

it's the way Here Today is settled between What's That You're Doing? and Ballroom Dancing

[theprofessorofdesire]

[undying-love]

"I was kind of crying when I wrote “Here Today”. One of my feelings even when he used to lay into me was that he really didn’t mean it. I could always see why he was doing it. There was this attempt on his part to get rid of the spectre of me, which I understand, because he had to clear the decks just like I did. [..] The song is me trying to talk back to him, but realising the futility of it because he is no longer here, even though that’s a fact I can’t quite believe, even to this day." (Paul)

-The Beatles: Off The Record 2 - The Dream is Over, by Keith Badman

[evrythingisabeatlesreferance]

Listening to here today allllways makes me want to start violently sobbing and screaming and vomiting but i’m in class so i have to stay nonchalant

[piovascosimo]

Paul McCartney | Here Today (live in Rio 16.12.23)

[javelinbk]

And finally… Here Today!

Paul being cute at the O2, 18th December 2024 - part five (part one, part two, part three, part four)