You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
The Beatles * Track #3 On Help!
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You've Got to Hide Your Love Away by The Beatles
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The BeatlesProduced by
George MartinWrited by
Paul McCartney & John Lennon & Lennon-McCartneyAbout
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” is the third track on The Beatles' album Help!. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, they both said that Lennon was influenced by Bob Dylan in his work.
Firstly the influence was subtle, with John playing the harmonica on “I Should Have Known Better” in the...
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away Lyrics
[Verse 1: John Lennon]
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
[Chorus: John Lennon]
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
[Verse 2: John Lennon]
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
[Chorus: John Lennon]
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
[Instrumental Outro]
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away Q&A
Who wrote You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away's ?
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away was written by Paul McCartney & John Lennon & Lennon-McCartney.
Who produced You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away's ?
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away was produced by George Martin.
When did The Beatles release You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away?
The Beatles released You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away on Fri Aug 06 1965.
What did The Beatles say about "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"?
That’s me in my [Bob] Dylan period. I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever is going on. If Elvis [Presley] can do it, I can do it. If The Everly Brothers can do it, Paul [McCartney] and me can. Same with Bob Dylan.
- John Lennon via Beatles Ebooks
I asked him not to sound too much like Dy...
What did Paul McCartney say about Bob Dylan's influence on John Lennon?
John particularly became very enamoured of him because of his poetry. All those songs were great lyrically. Masses of cluttered lyrics like John had written in his books. So Dylan’s gobbledegook and his cluttered poetry was very appealing, it hit a chord in John, it was as if John felt, “That sho...
Where did John write the song?
I was in Kenwood and I would just be songwriting. The period would be for songwriting and so, every day, I would attempt to write a song, and it’s one of those that you sort of sing a bit sadly to yourself, “Here I stand, head in hand.”
- Via Beatles Ebooks
Who authored the song?
Paul claimed that it was Lennon:
I think it was 100 percent John [Lennon]’s song. I might have helped him on it, I have a vague recollection of helping to fill out some verses for him.
- Via Beatles Ebooks
Was John singing about homosexuality?
No, he wasn’t. He denounced the claims:
I’d started thinking of my own emotions. I don’t know when exactly it started, like ‘"I’m A Loser" or “Hide Your Love Away,” those kinds of things. Instead of projecting myself into a situation, I would try to express what I felt about myself, which I’d don...