The Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Lyrics

The Beatles Lyrics

"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"

Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two-foot small

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away

How can I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in

How could she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away

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Writer(s): Paul McCartney, John Lennon

John Lennon said about the time when he wrote this song, "I think it was [Bob] Dylan helped me realize that—not by any discussion or anything but just by hearing his work—I had a sort of professional songwriter's attitude to writing pop songs." He added, "Then I started being me about the songs, not writing them objectively, but subjectively."

In the book "Beatlesongs" (1989, by William J. Dowlding) Paul McCartney said that the song "is just basically John doing Dylan".

This song is the first of The Beatles' records where session musicians took part: they played flutes between Lennon's vocals.

The line in the lyrics "feeling two-foot small" should've sounded "feeling two-foot tall", but John Lennon sang "small" by mistake and decided to keep it.

John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison contributed their efforts in recording a version of this song by the band The Silkie. The band had been signed by Brian Epstein. They released their version a few months after The Beatles. Lennon produced the session, McCartney played guitar and Harrison tambourine.

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