8 Deceptively Unromantic "Love" Songs

7. The Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwxn8DzER8 The Song You Know A classic Paul McCartney love song, though certainly not the best one The Beatles have ever done. It's a little more vague than "She Loves You," and nowhere near as intimate as "Here, There and Everywhere," but it's endearing nonetheless. Why It's Not So Romantic The Beatles have a long and storied history of crafting beautiful love songs as well as super-trippy drug hymns. So it's not surprising that those two areas would overlap at some point. "Got To Get You Into My Life," was initially perceived as just another one of Paul McCartney's gushy love songs, when in fact it was actually a little closer to "I Am the Walrus" than "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Paul wrote it after his first time experimenting with marijuana. It's his ode to pot. "I was alone. I took a ride. I didn't know what I would find there." That's Paul just before getting high, filled with the excitement of the unknown and unexpected. Those are the only lyrics that clue listeners in on what Paul's true love is, with lines like "When I'm with you I want to say there" and "Did I tell you I need you every single day?" decidedly ambiguous. In the end, "Got to Get You Into My Life" is about as romantic as the average Sublime song.
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