I posted those song lyrics yesterday because they were rolling around in my head. The lyrics to Beatles songs often roll around in my head. It’s astonishing to me what a close emotional connection I have with their song lyrics.
Most people I know have a particular musical influence that connects to them powerfully. For me it’s definitely the Beatles, the music I grew up with. I know all the lyrics to all the Beatles songs, and there’s a part of me that is (unfairly) astonished when I find that somebody doesn’t realize that a song was written by Lennon and McCartney.
In fact, that moment in the movie “Yesterday” where the main character can’t remember the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby never sat well with me. I understand that it was useful for driving the plot forward, but there is no way that somebody who is such a fanboy would not know those lyrics backwards and forwards.