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"broke it in two" could be more poignant than that -- John broke apart the Lennon/McCartney relationship and all that meant musically (if not in more ways).  Paul may have meant (and felt) this, at the time.

It wasn't more poignant. It's worth reading Joe's entries on the album and songs. He includes lots of relevant quotes. This one comes from a 1984 Playboy interview with McCartney:

"I was looking at my second solo album, Ram, the other day and I remember there was one tiny little reference to John in the whole thing. He'd been doing a lot of preaching, and it got up my nose a little bit. In one song, I wrote, "Too many people preaching practices," I think is the line. I mean, that was a little dig at John and Yoko. There wasn't anything else on it that was about them. Oh, there was 'Yoko took your lucky break and broke it in two'."

McCartney likes to be liked, he likes the image of being the "nice Beatle", and you can hear him playing down the messages he was sending. You have to put the whole thing into the context of what was happening at the time. Lennon and McCartney were conducting a war of words across the pages of Melody Maker, and it spilled over into their songwriting. It was an ugly divorce played out in public, and both showed less appealing aspects of their characters over its course.

EDIT: The above appeared while I was typing this. "3 Legs" was seen as a comment on The Beatles' split. Strange thing is, John pointed to this as a Paul song he liked.

"What?  "The Back Seat of my Car" is my favourite song on the album and the "we believe that we cant be long" is my favourite part of the song!"

I agree.  It never ceases to amaze me that people have different tastes!  All seriousness aside, I don't mind variety (it's the spice of life, after all), but it's sometimes dismaying when someone positively dislikes or disdains something clearly excellent.  "Subjectivity" is the bane of the post-modern world.