"I've Just Seen a Face" vs. "Yesterday" | Page 3 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

McLennonson said:

mr. Sun king coming together said:

MeanMrs.Mustard said:

mr. Sun king coming together said:

What is so unique about the lyrics to “I’ve Just Seen A Face ” that makes you deem it a “very big leap for the band into more mature song writing”?

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Well, think about it for a second. Take another song with a similar subject– “I Saw Her Standing There .” They both deal with Paul falling in love with a girl he’s just met. In “I Saw…”, Paul talks about how she was good looking and single. In “I’ve Just Seen…”, Paul doesn’t mention how good looking she is– in fact, he says, “Had it been another day, I might have looked the other way.” So there must have been something there more than just a face. Plus, I feel that he’s being deliberately cheeky in “I’ve Just Seen…”. He’s not debating the meaning of love: He’s just singing about how great she’s making his life: “I’ve been alone and I have missed things and kept out of sight, but other girls were never quite like this.”
 
 

I also like the way he describes how special she is: “I have never known the likes of this… other girls were never quite like this.” 

Paulrus said:

I think I’ve Just Seen A Face and Yesterday go together really well.

I’ve Just Seen A Face is the sort of hopeful, happy beginning of a relationship, and then Yesterday is when his world has come crashing down, and he longs for how things used to be.

But that’s just my two cents 

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That’s funny. That’s how I always saw it. So maybe I’m just more inclined to like songs about the beginning of things, as opposed to the end. 
 

Von Bontee said:

And hmm…now that I think of it, Paul’s “The Night Before ” is yet another of his Help ! tracks dealing with the recent past, this time an indeterminate number of days. And emotionally it fits right in between those other two: The beginning of a happy relationship, followed by problems and uncertainty, followed by the devastating breakup.

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I suddenly had mental images of “The Campaign for the Insertion of ‘The Night Before ‘ in Between ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face ‘ and ‘Yesterday .'”
 
 

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Fascinating, but I have 1 thing to add: He’s only seen the woman, he hasn’t met her yet
 

So true… So true…

 

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