This may be affecting or maudlin or simply trivia. Maybe all three. Watching the new Beatles doc I'm reminded of Two of Us, for me one of the band's most affecting songs. I'd always assumed it was Paul's song written about John Lennon, the breakdown of their friendship and ...
2/ the Beatles as a band. I've since learned that a lot of Beatles experts interpret it the same way. I have no idea if this is actually true or whether McCartney had any particular idea in mind when he wrote it. But there is that one lyric: ...
3/ "You and I have memories / Longer than the road that stretches out ahead". When I was younger it never really occurred to me that this is a very odd thing for a 26 year old to say in much of any context, whether it's about Lennon or anyone else.
4/ I got curious. Was he right? Pretty close. The Let It Be sessions that are the centerpiece of new doc start on January 2, 1969 (six week before I was born but who's counting). Lennon died 4358 days later. The two had met 4198 days earlier. So a bit further, but not much.
5/ This isn't a numerology post. It's more than I'm struck by the lyric. It's a powerful one and still inscrutable, no less for being vaguely prescient.
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