Beatles: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Meaning

Song Released: 1965

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Lyrics

Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she’s gone I can’t go on
Feelin’ two-foot small

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say

Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
Hey...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 1st 2006 !⃝

   I definitely agree with the Epstein theory as it was written while John was on holiday with Epstein.
2. anonymous

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   Jul 8th 2006 !⃝

   "Here I stand head in hand
   Turn my face to the wall
   If she’s gone I can’t go on
   Feelin’ two-foot small"
   
   This song is all about a love that was never meant to be,
   obviously a crush on a girl that is unavailable, or was available, but was lost for one reason or another.
   
   "Everywhere people stare
   Each and every day
   I can see them laugh at me
   And I hear them say
   Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
   Hey you’ve got to hide your love away "
   
   This bit tells how everyone knows about his feelings, and think that he's foolish for hanging on to something for so long.
   
   "How could I even try
   I can never win
   Hearing them, seeing them
   In the state I’m in"
   
   He doesn't understand as to why he is holding on to this girl that is long gone, and is obviously depressed about the fact.
   
   "How could she say to me
   Love will find a way
   Gather round all you clowns
   Let me hear you say
   Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
   Hey you’ve got to hide your love away"
   
   Here the girl is, as lightly as possible, telling him that things will never work out between them, but will eventually work out somehow or another. However, he still can't shake the fact that everything everyone has told him was totally right, and that he was wrong to love her in the first place.
3. anonymous

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   May 26th 2006 !⃝

   "if she's gone I can't go on" : a good friend, the only friend that he could be open about a certain thing he loves to do
   "everywhere people stare" : after his friend left him standing in the rain noone understood what he was all about
   
   "how could she say to me love will find a way" : after people disappointed and embarrassed him for showing his new found love (not towards a person) he felt like his old friend lied to him
4. anonymous

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   Apr 16th 2006 !⃝

   Man taking a leak.
   
   'Here I stand, head in hand' (small head)
   'turn my face to the wall' (toward urinal)
5. anonymous

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   Apr 14th 2006 !⃝

   I definitely agree with the Epstien theory, because he was homosexual and probably couldn't be too open about it for the Beatles' sake, so he had to hide his love for John away.
6. spiniton

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   Feb 2nd 2006 !⃝

   I agree with the Epstein theory, because in the Anthology 2 video, the alternate version of this song plays during a small photo segment of Brian. Wonderful vocal job by John.
7. anonymous

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   Dec 29th 2005 !⃝

   Yeah, it's about their manager Brian Epstein who was homosexual and they wrote it to be supportive.
8. anonymous

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   Dec 25th 2005 !⃝

   Actually, I read this song was dedicated to some manager or friend of sorts that had a crush on Lennon.
   
   A male friend, that is. Hey, you have to hide your love away, indeed.
9. anonymous

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   Nov 27th 2005 !⃝

   I heard that John Lennon wrote this song about how he was having an affair, and felt that he could not show his love openly for the new person in his life, and so he had to 'hide his love away'.
10. anonymous

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    Oct 18th 2005 !⃝

    This song is obviously about a devastating break-up. But the background story of this song, is that it was written by John Lennon shortly after meeting Bob Dylan for the first time, which heavily influenced him. Paul McCartney observed that "He even sings like Bob Dylan on it," indicating that Dylan was a major influence in the writing of this song.

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