Text · Motif

Love

Thematically centered on romantic love - declaration, pursuit, loss, or celebration of it

122
songs

Analysis

By Year

Song count per year

By Songwriter

% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)

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Songs(105 of 122)

Year
Album
Writer
Lead vocal(s)

Love Me Do

1962·Please Please Me·Paul

Direct declaration and plea for love

P.S. I Love You

1962·Please Please Me·Paul

Devotion across distance

Ask Me Why

1963·Please Please Me·John

Devotion makes him cry with happiness

Please Please Me

1963·Please Please Me·John

Do You Want to Know a Secret

1963·Please Please Me·George

Whispered declaration of love

There's a Place

1963·Please Please Me·John

'I love only you' quoted within the refuge

I Saw Her Standing There

1963·Please Please Me·Paul

Falling in love at first sight

From Me to You

1963·Past Masters·John

Devoted offering to a sweetheart

Thank You Girl

1963·Past Masters·John

Devotion expressed as gratitude

I'll Get You

1963·Past Masters·John

Confident pursuit of a love interest

She Loves You

1963·Past Masters·Paul

Reassuring a friend his girl still loves him

Hold Me Tight

1963·With The Beatles·Paul

Possessive devotion plea

I Wanna Be Your Man

1963·With The Beatles·Ringo

Declaration of devotion

Little Child

1963·With The Beatles·John

Baby

All My Loving

1963·With The Beatles·Paul

Devotion during separation

All I've Got to Do

1963·With The Beatles·John

Mutual romantic availability

This Boy

1963·Past Masters·John

Yearning to win back lost lover

I Want to Hold Your Hand

1963·Past Masters·John

Innocent first-touch romance

Sie Liebt Dich

1964·Past Masters·John

Reassuring friend of partner's love

Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand

1964·Past Masters·John

Earnest declaration of devotion

Can't Buy Me Love

1964·A Hard Day's Night·Paul

Love above material wealth

You Can't Do That

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Jealous possessive love

I'll Be Back

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Reluctant devotion: 'I hate to leave you'

A Hard Day's Night

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Devotion despite exhaustion

Tell Me Why

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Wounded romantic confusion

And I Love Her

1964·A Hard Day's Night·Paul

Pure devotion declaration

I Should Have Known Better

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Sudden realization of love

If I Fell

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Conditional vow of devotion

I'm Happy Just to Dance with You

1964·A Hard Day's Night·George

Modest, dance-floor declaration of devotion

Things We Said Today

1964·A Hard Day's Night·Paul

Devotion across separation

When I Get Home

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Eager devotion to waiting partner

I'll Cry Instead

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Loving

Any Time at All

1964·A Hard Day's Night·John

Devotion via unconditional availability

I Feel Fine

1964·Past Masters·John

Mutual happy devotion

She's a Woman

1964·Past Masters·Paul

Devoted, undemanding partner

I'll Follow the Sun

1964·Beatles For Sale·Paul

What You're Doing

1964·Beatles For Sale·Paul

I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

1964·Beatles For Sale·John

Every Little Thing

1964·Beatles For Sale·John

Devotion to constant partner

Eight Days a Week

1964·Beatles For Sale·John

Total devotion via hyperbolic time

I'm a Loser

1964·Beatles For Sale·John

Baby's in Black

1964·Beatles For Sale·John

Dear

Ticket to Ride

1965·Help!·John

Baby

I'm Down

1965·Past Masters·Paul

Baby

Another Girl

1965·Help!·Paul

Boast of new lover replacing old

I've Just Seen a Face

1965·Help!·Paul

Love at first sight

Yesterday

1965·Help!·Paul

It's Only Love

1965·Help!·John

Difficulty of loving despite feeling

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

1965·Help!·John

I Need You

1965·Help!·George

Pleading devotion to absent lover

The Night Before

1965·Help!·Paul

Lover changed her mind overnight

You Like Me Too Much

1965·Help!·George

Mutual attachment despite friction

Tell Me What You See

1965·Help!·John

Devotion and persuasion to a lover

Wait

1965·Rubber Soul·John

Reunion after long absence

If I Needed Someone

1965·Rubber Soul·George

Conditional, hedged - 'too much in love' with someone else

I'm Looking Through You

1965·Rubber Soul·Paul

In My Life

1965·Rubber Soul·John

Present love outweighs the remembered past

Michelle

1965·Rubber Soul·Paul

Tender devotion across the language barrier

The Word

1965·Rubber Soul·John

Universal love as gospel/philosophy

Girl

1965·Rubber Soul·John

Painful, ambivalent infatuation

What Goes On

1965·Rubber Soul·Ringo

Heart

Drive My Car

1965·Rubber Soul·Paul

Baby, love, heart

Love You To

1966·Revolver·George

Carpe diem urging mutual lovemaking

For No One

1966·Revolver·Paul

Here, There and Everywhere

1966·Revolver·Paul

Devotional love song

Got to Get You into My Life

1966·Revolver·Paul

Ode to a beloved discovered

Tomorrow Never Knows

1966·Revolver·John

'That love is all and love is everyone'

Good Day Sunshine

1966·Revolver·Paul

'I love her and she's loving me'

When I'm Sixty-Four

1967·Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band·Paul

Lifelong devotion projected into old age

Within You Without You

1967·Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band·George

'The love we all could share'

With a Little Help from My Friends

1967·Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band·Ringo

Need for 'somebody to love'

Baby, You're a Rich Man

1967·Magical Mystery Tour·John

Baby

All You Need Is Love

1967·Magical Mystery Tour·John

Title word repeated as mantra throughout

Hey Jude

1968·Past Masters·Paul

Pursuit of a romantic interest urged on Jude

Martha My Dear

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·Paul

Dear, love

Cry Baby Cry

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·John

Baby

Don't Pass Me By

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·Ringo

Devotion to absent partner

I Will

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·Paul

Pure devotional love song

Wild Honey Pie

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·Paul

Term-of-endearment address; explicit only in outro 'I love you, honey pie'

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·George

Savoy Truffle

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·George

Heart

Dear Prudence

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·John

Dear

Honey Pie

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·Paul

Longing for distant beloved

Long, Long, Long

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·George

Devotional reunion after long absence

Julia

1968·The Beatles (The White Album)·John

Song of love to absent mother and Yoko

It's All Too Much

1969·Yellow Submarine·George

Universal love, not romantic

All Together Now

1969·Yellow Submarine·Paul

'I love you' refrain

Don't Let Me Down

1969·Past Masters·John

Awestruck declaration of true love

Old Brown Shoe

1969·Past Masters·George

Declaration to a transforming partner

The End

1969·Abbey Road·Paul

Karmic reciprocity of love

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

1969·Abbey Road·John

Obsessive desire for Yoko

Oh! Darling

1969·Abbey Road·Paul

Desperate plea to a leaving lover

Because

1969·Abbey Road·John

Bridge meditates on love's universality

Something

1969·Abbey Road·George

Devotional address to a woman

Here Comes the Sun

1969·Abbey Road·George

Darling

Golden Slumbers

1969·Abbey Road·Paul

Her Majesty

1969·Abbey Road·Paul

Mock-declaration of love for the Queen

Across the Universe (Wildlife version)

1969·Past Masters·John

'Limitless undying love' as cosmic

For You Blue

1970·Let It Be·George

Devotion to Pattie Boyd

Across the Universe

1970·Let It Be·John

'Limitless undying love'

One After 909

1970·Let It Be·John

Baby

I've Got a Feeling

1970·Let It Be·Paul

Paul's half: devotion and intuition

Dig a Pony

1970·Let It Be·John

Refrain 'All I want is you' written for Yoko

Real Love

1996·Reunion singles·John

Recognition of true love after a wait

Now and Then

2023·Reunion singles·John

Devotion sustained across separation

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