10 Perfect Beatles Songs From Their Solo Careers
6. Love - John Lennon
Yeah remember not even 5 seconds ago when we were talking about John finding some inner peace? There was not too much of that to be found on Plastic Ono Band, where he was still coming to terms with his own emotional trauma, like his parental issues on Mother or his bitter outlook on his legacy on God. When you have that much emotion hitting you all at once, you also end up getting a full dose of the sunnier side as well.
Being a much more downtempo track than the rest, Love is one of the most gentle songs that John would ever write, feeling like it could have come from the same session that brought us Julia off of the White Album. Though he may have seemed paranoid and scarred on most of this record, this is a much more comfortable place for John, knowing that he needs nothing else in the world as long as he has Yoko by his side.
And if we're talking Beatles songs, what's a better way to capture that than love? That one word has been used in so many Beatles songs that it seems to have lost its meaning on some of us. We know that love is all you need and love is both old and new at the same time, but this might beat every one of those sentiments. Love is the kind of force that could bring about a more peaceful world for all of us, and John is looking to make the first step with this song.