Showing posts with label It Won't Be Long. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It Won't Be Long. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
"It Won't Be Long"
I listened to With the Beatles a couple days ago and noticed a small thing in "It Won't Be Long": there's a temporal merism in the lines "Ev'ry night the tears come down from my eye / Ev'ry day I've done nothin' but cry."
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Monday, June 12, 2017
"It Won't Be Long"
A couple days ago, I learned some of the guitar phrases in "It Won't Be Long." I was thinking about the song again this morning, and I realized something about this section:
Since you left me
I'm so alone
Now you're comin'
You're comin' on home
I'll be good like I know I should
You're comin' home
You're comin' home
I'm not sure I have the line breaks in the right places there. The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook renders this section as:
Since you left me I'm so alone,I went more by where John Lennon takes breaths when he sings it (The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook evidently considers some of those caesurae). Either way it's formatted, what I realized still stands: there's internal rhyme in the line "I'll be good like I know I should," which - to some degree - illustrates the perfection of character that the narrator says he'll attain.
Now you're coming, you're coming on home,
I'll be good like I know I should,
You're coming home, you're coming home.
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