10 Perfect Beatles Songs With No Flaws

Although John Lennon was always a fan of McCartney's song Yesterday, he had always kept it a bit at arm's length for most of their career. He had even mentioned shortly before his death that he would be in a restaurant and the violinist would end up playing a version of Yesterday, which John found both funny and a bit disconcerting at the same time. Paul had already had his time to write the perfect love song, and John got his opportunity around the time of Rubber Soul.

While In My Life started as a record meant to be just another song, what it blossomed into in the studio made for one of the group's most poignant love songs. Originally being a look through different places and events that happened in John's life, the entire song switches to something completely different in the second half, where he starts talking to his lover about how nothing that he has seen in his past could possibly measure up to her.

Though this song may have been written while Lennon was in his 20's, it reads like someone who is much older, talking about never losing affection as he gets into his old age. It would also end up being all too prophetic considering that Lennon's life was halfway finished without him even realizing it. Even if he didn't have much more time for this world, you can at least see a glimpse of the person that he was going to be in his old age through this song.