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sir paul mccartney you are more than a historic and national treasure to me. you are a mother and a father. a daughter and a mouse. a musical beast, a mythical archangel, and the most annoying person to exist. you are the virgin mary and the best juggler at a circus. you are a pin up doll and the 20th century mozart. all that.

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We Can Work It Out has to be one of the most Paul songs of all time. Like, its one of the very few songs of his where the lyrics blatantly and straightforwardly present his mindset. It makes me laugh every time.

Try to see it my way. Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?

As evidenced in Get Back, Paul is very much a "I'll just keep explaining until you understand" type of person.

Won't you try to see it my way? Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.

While you see it your way. There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long.

I could be right or wrong, it doesnt matter, you should still see it my way because it won't be that bad. If YOU'RE wrong (and you probably are) it could be a disaster! Surface level this is obviously arrogant but it also reeks of anxiety. If he's wrong he's still at least in control of himself. Following another person who might end up being wrong opens him up to total (percieved) loss of control and vulnerability. This attitude of Pauls can also be seen in "Fixing A Hole" but hides a little more behind wordplay.

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right

Where I belong I'm right

Where I belong

Idk i think about this EVERY time I listen to these songs and I had to get it out. There's always so much decoding of Paul's other lyrics bc they're buried under stories about "other people" and wordplay but We Can Work It Out is just There. Paul telling everyone who he is in his relationships

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Help! | 1965 NME Poll Winner’s Concert

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“john lennon was in love with an immovably heterosexual paul mccartney” my brother in christ this is NOT true. paul mccartney has a high functioning anxiety disorder and acts according to what feels like the safest and most comfortable, straight-forward pathways for the heteronormative aspects of his life rather than what HE actually wanted and truly felt. in paul’s eyes, having an established girlfriend, family unit, and musical universe was essential to his functionality as a person and ultimately led to paul choosing superficial shows of public security over his love for john. in this essay in will-

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like remember when people voted for stephen fry (evil, transphobic) over paul mccartney bc paul mccartney is a beatle. I feel like you could trick them by saying who's better wings or beatles and half the tags would be like "idk who wings is but I hate the beatles and want them to lose so"

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John eye fucking paul so hard that the man still has wets dreams about him to this even after the divorce is the type of grip that mans pussy had on him

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2000: PAUL MCCARTNEY interview by DIANE SAWYER. "John's Room", pt. I.

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Why is he literally preening himself for John after he notices him biting his lip at him

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THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE PAUL

April 3rd?, 1985 (Soho Square, London): Paul talks on German television show Exclusiv about the breakup of the Beatles and his personal breakup with John. (Note: All my gratitude to @aceonthebass for helping with the fiddlier bits of the transcription!)

INTERVIEWER: [inaudible] —in particular, the breakup?

PAUL: Yeah. I know we all had similar feelings. I know John, I remember him saying to me, “What am I going to do with my songs now?” You had a feeling you wanted to know how you were going to exist if you didn’t have the Beatles, how you were going to do. And so it was difficult for all of us, I think. But um, time heals your wounds, you know, as they say, and I think that’s what really happened. After a while, we got used to it. But nobody was happy when the Beatles broke up. I mean, it was just one of those things that just seemed to happen as an explosion, you know. It was there, and it was done.

INTERVIEWER: But your relationship with John, in every way, as a Beatles— [inaudible] —as a band, you were very very close. I mean, that must have been very painful in that respect, not only the Beatles breaking up, but I mean that particular relationship breaking up. [Note: The German overdub, translation provided graciously by @pivoinesque: Your relationship with John was not just that of a musical partnership. It must have hurt you quite a bit that your special relationship [with him] broke apart.]

PAUL: Mm. It was, yeah. Um, in our songwriting, I had signs that the group was gonna break up, because… I mean, I think really what it was, really all that happened was that John fell in love. With Yoko. And so, with such a powerful alliance like that, it was difficult for him to still be seeing me. It was as if I was another girlfriend, almost. Our relationship was a strong relationship. And if he was to start a new relationship, he had to put this other one away. And I understood that. I mean, I couldn’t stand in the way of someone who’d fallen in love. You can’t say, “Who’s this?” You can’t really do that. If I was a girl, maybe I could go out and… But you know I mean in this case I just sort of said, right – I mean, I didn’t say anything, but I could see that was the way it was going to go, and that Yoko would be very sort of powerful for him. So um, we all had to get out the way. I don’t blame her. You know, you can’t blame her for being the object of his love.

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Thinking about banana milkshakes

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Paul wearing John’s hat in Paris

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I think they switched John and Paul's roles in the shakespear play because Paul tried on the Thisbee outfit and it was too convincing.

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How come after interviews like these people still don't believe that Paul and John loved each other?

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A very rare video of Paul talking candidly to Yoko about John right before he went on stage to induct him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“The bottom line is that he was a beautiful boy, you know? […]  I was never against him, you know, we bitched, we had our bitches, but I was never against him. […] It was a privilege to know him.”