Posted on 05/17/2014 7:05:45 PM PDT by re_nortex
If you search my posting history, you'll find that I never really got acclimated to the rock music of the 50s, 60s and beyond. My tastes still remain rooted in Southern Gospel (The Kingsmen, Happy Goodmans, Florida Boys and such) and traditional country (Roy Acuff, Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells and the like).
Today while heading back from errands, my car radio happened to scan onto a station playing a song I had never heard before, "Things We Said Today" by the Beatles.
It's in a minor key and somewhat dark and brooding but has, at least to my ears, a good, tight harmony presumably with Paul McCartney and John Lennon. It may be among the very songs from the rock genre that captured my ears and I find appealing. So, FReepers (a reliable font of wisdom), what's the real backstory on "Things We Said Today"? I'd really hate to think it came from a drug induced state since it seems like a interesting and catchy tune yet melancholy.
Ping to the “musical youth” who might be able to share their insight on this tune, an oldie to you but a new discovery to me.
Things We Said Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev_XPaakW9Y
Beatles 60’s pop music. Nothing sinister.
You say you will love me
If I have to go
You’ll be thinking of me
Somehow I will know
Someday when I’m lonely
Wishing you weren’t so far away
Then I will remember
Things we said today
You say you’ll be mine, girl
‘Til the end of time
These days such a kind girl
Seems so hard to find
Someday when we’re dreaming
Deep in love, not a lot to say
Then we will remember
Things we said today
Me, I’m just the lucky kind
Love to hear you say that love is love
And though we may be blind
Love is here to stay and that’s enough
To make you mine, girl
Be the only one
Love me all the time, girl
We’ll go on and on
Some day when we’re dreaming
Deep in love, not a lot to say
Then we will remember
Things we said today
Me, I’m just the lucky kind
Love to hear you say that love is love
And though we may be blind
Love is here to stay and that’s enough
To make you mine, girl
Be the only one
Love me all the time, girl
We’ll go on and on
Some day when we’re dreaming
Deep in love, not a lot to say
Then we will remember
Things we said today
Songwriters
LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL
Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Read more: Beatles - Things We Said Today Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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I know most of the obvious Beatles songs but this beats the lot! Glad I found it. As fossie32 says - some tremendous key changes in there.
So I take it this wasn't among their hit records?
In before “The Beatles were Overrated.”
It was big enough, the Beatles sang a lot of romantic and upbeat songs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_We_Said_Today
Early Beatles were probably more influenced by the Everly Brothers than anything.
Nice vocal harmony leading into the chorus. Otherwise not a super interesting song in my opinion.
Best minor key Beatles dirge is probably the radio classic While My Guitar Gently Weeps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RYvO2X0Oo
But I think if you match it up with anything else out there in 64, it’s pretty out there.
Eleanor Rigby was in a minor key.
Good point — probably so.
Something sordid no doubt -- it is the Beatles after all.
It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia. We’ll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future.
And that's likely what made this song intriguing to me. It caught me as being lyrically deeper than the bubblegum pop of much of the rock music of that era. Or to sum it up succinctly, like the article says, "reverse nostalgia".
I wonder what it says if you play it backwards.
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