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Re: I Need You



David Thirteen wrote:
> 
> I never really thought about it until actually concentrating on the lyrics,
> but does anyone else feel that "I Need You" is Pete trying to "get closer"
> to the Beatles, i.e., to put to rest any 'rivalry' he may have helped foster
> in the press? Brian Cady and others have noted how "I Need You" was recorded
> just after the release of "Revolver", with its use of sitar. About the
> possible "Yellow Submarine" reference: when was the song/album released? (My
> Beatles chronology is a bit lacking in specifics...).
> 
> Knowing
> Is what people tell you:
> That you're thinking wrong.
> Embrace you,
> But they really mean, "So long."
> You talk to them,
> They laugh aloud;
> Yet they run to you in any crowd?
> Please talk to me again,
> I need you.
> 
> We're dancing,
> We will come and dance near you,
> We want to learn,
> Let us come and sitar with you.
> Distort my ears
> When the music's loud,
> Yet you raise your hatch in the yellow crowd.
> Please talk to me again,
> I need you.
> 
> D13


Pete didn't write I Need You.  It was one of the few songs that Keith
wrote.

KLP