Beatles - In My Life Meaning

Song Released: 1965

In My Life Lyrics

There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
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1. HelterSkelter

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   May 6th 2006 !⃝

   John wrote all of the lyrics. He has been quoted as saying something like he remembers writting the lyrics to the song and originally they were boring, bland lyrics about places he'd seen. He said he was trying to think of clever lyrics for quite sometime when he gave up, and then all of the sudden the lyrics to "In my Life" came to him (everything about stu sutcliffe and such). As per the dispute a few people have mentioned, it wasnt for the lyrics (which John wrote and werent ripped off from any one) it was for the music in the song it self. Although a very beatlesque thing to do was leave holes through out the song and fill them in later. Apparently the beatles stepped out and George Martin (producer of most Beatles records, and sometimes aptly dubbed "the fifth Beatle") thought it'd be nice to throw a harpsicord solo in there. He played it at half speed and down an octave (he couldnt play the actual solo that fast) and sped it up. "It's a way of tricking someone into thinking you can do something really well" martin says. Enjoy!
2. LennonLives

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   Jan 5th 2006 !⃝

   This Song was written by John with some help from Paul to finsh some parts of it. I think it was credited 70 - 30 lennon/mccartney.
   
   Anways, the song is basically John looking back at all the things in his life that he can remember that have changed. He wrote this lyrics while on a bus trip, This was when Lennon really started to focus on the lyrics. On the bus ride he passes the actual things that were changed the bus station ect.....
   
   The part about dead and living focuses on people who died in his life Stuart Sutcliffe, His Mother Julia.......
   
   The piano that is played in the middle as a lead was actually sped up to the speed on the record.
3. anonymous

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   Nov 22nd 2005 !⃝

   This song is about John Lennon's life (obviously). However there was some conjecture some years later that John had stolen a poem written by a beat poet and set it to music.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway