i’m just supposed to go on with my life? when John Winston Ono Lennon yearned so much to be with Paul McCartney again that he wrote the line “Now and then / I want you to return to me,”… And Sir James Paul McCartney after 43 years of mourning his partner, a person that knew him better that anyone, change this line to: “Now and then / I want you to be there for me”. In a sort of long distance conversation separated by time. Showing how John wanted Paul to return to him and Paul now only wishes for John to be here with him, by his side, now and during those past 43 years. This also explains why Paul decided to leave out the 2nd verse - the demo is from John’s perspective, the single is from Paul’s.
It is known that Paul and John communicated through songs, even during their beatles days, but mainly during their solo careers. This song feels like the one last conversation. John’s plea to Paul to come back to him is finally answered by 40+ years of grief and love for the man that was his partner since they were teenagers.
josh and andrew confirmed in the new knives out film + daisy and paul teasing an announcement about ~something while each holding up two fingers is making for one serious ‘claw at your face in anticipation’ kind of day.
Honestly John is lucky the new Albion Radio hour Takes place at criers Boulevard cause that's at least an appropriately dramatic Name can you Imagine having to heroically sacrifice yourself to save your Long lost daughter's Life at the Battle of Piccadilly Circus?
Arthur Rimbaud: " I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I dance."
Paul Verlaine: "Tears fall in my heart
As tears fall on the town."