"Blackbird"

Yester-day, I finished reading the introduction to 1964: Eyes of the Storm.  Near the end, there's a quotation from "Blackbird," and I noticed an ambiguity in the line "You were only waiting for this moment to arise."  I don't know the proper grammatical terms necessary to explain this ambiguity precisely, but the main difference is whether it's "you" that's arising (where the arrival of "this moment" is a sort of prerequisite) or it's "this moment" that's arising (where "this moment to arise" is the direct object of the verb "waiting for").  Comparison with the later line "You were only waiting for this moment to be free," which has the same structure, suggests the former, but I think the latter is also grammatically viable.

"From Me to You"

I've been reading Paul McCartney's 1964: Eyes of the Storm, although I'm still only in the introduction.  Yester-day, I read a part that quoted the bridge in "From Me to You":

I got arms that long to hold you

And keep you by my side

I got lips that long to kiss you

And keep you satisfied, ooh

(That's my transcription.)

I think that reading this rather than hearing it made me realize that it's somewhat similar to Buddy Holly's "You've Got Love" (credited to Johnny Wilson, Roy Orbison, and Norman Petty).  Much of Holly's song is just a list of body parts, including arms and lips, and what they can do:  "You got two lips that look so fine," "You got two arms that you could use / To make me lose my blues," and "You got two eyes so you can see / Your love was meant for me."

The narrator in Holly's song is talking to his lover where the narrator in the Beatles' song is talking about himself, but the structure is the same:  "You/I got [body part] that...."

While the Beatles have listed Holly as an influence and there's definitely a similarity here, I'm not certain that this is an instance of the Beatles' drawing from his song.

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I also wrote about a similarity between "You've Got Love" and "Every Little Thing," although I think that's more coincidental.