"Can't Buy Me Love"

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Near the end of last year, I thought I'd attempt the solo from "Can't Buy Me Love."  I never got around to it, but listening to 1962-1966 a few days ago made it really obvious that my suspicion that it was double-tracked (with a few differences) was correct (because that version is in stereo).  I figured this out the same night I figured out the bass part to "Help!"

"I Feel Fine"

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I happened to hear "I Feel Fine" on the radio at McDonald's to-night, and I noticed something about the third verse:

That her baby buys her things, you know
He buys her diamond rings, you know
She said so
She’s in love with me, and I feel fine, ooh

"Things" rhymed with "diamond rings" is also a feature of two verses of "Can't Buy Me Love."  There's some similarity with the first lines of the first verse ("a diamond ring" rhymes with "anything"):

I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend
If it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything, my friend
If it makes you feel alright

But there's a greater similarity with the first lines of the third verse ("diamond rings" rhymes with "kind of things"):

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things
That money just can't buy

A Hard Day's Night

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After I listened to A Hard Day's Night last week, I noticed some connection among "A Hard Day's Night," "Can't Buy Me Love," and "Tell Me Why."  Working on transcribing the lyrics yester-day helped in fleshing it out.

"A Hard Day's Night" and "Tell Me Why" present opposite outcomes of the same situation.  In "A Hard Day's Night," the speaker/singer says, "It's worth it just to hear you say / You're gonna give me everything / So why on Earth should I moan?"  There's gift-giving (or even just the promise of gift-giving), so there's no grumbling or animosity, unlike in "Tell Me Why":

Well, I gave you everything I had
But you left me sittin' on my own
Did you have to leave me oh so bad
All I do is hang my head and moan

Here, there's also giving "everything," but now there is cause to "moan" because the affection isn't reciprocated.

"Can't Buy Me Love" presents the same sort of idea ("I'll get you anything, my friend / If it makes you feel alright"), but it also complicates the idea with the titular line: "Money can't buy me love."

Taken together, it seems to present the view that giving "everything" can certainly help a romantic relationship, but it's not the essential element.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that there's also "She gives me everything" in "And I Love Her."