
Far more unfortunate than the Beatles songs laced with drug references and incomprehensible lyrics are the tunes that are mainlined with early Lennon misogyny, of which this song is a prime example. The lyrics indicate that the singer's girl is to talk to no other male except him--perhaps not the most enlightened message to be sending to your screaming female fans. Stranger still is the way these lyrics are delivered with a cheery, smiling face (as seen in the Hard Day's Night outtake shown in the "making of" documentary of this movie), as though nothing untoward was being sung. It's a chilling precursor to The Police's Every Breath You Take two decades later.
(C) 2008, It's All Too Much.