Direct begging, supplication, or asking for something.
The Plea motif is on 21 of the 32 songs the Beatles released in 1963, and 4 of 24 by 1967.
Song count per year
% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)
'So please, love me do'
'Please, please me, like I please you'
Asks listener to come closer, promise silence
'Send her back to me'
'Just call on me'
'Resign yourself to me'
Reassurance more than plea
Yearning for her return
Repeated request to be accepted
Begs partner to dance, take a chance
Begging for reassurance
Begs to be left alone
Wants 'you' back from 'that boy'
'Please, say to me'
Urges friend to apologize
Repeated 'Komm, gib mir deine Hand'
Calling out into an empty room
Pleads partner wants love, not things
'Promise to be true', 'don't hurt my pride'
'Give me more'
Asks partner to ignore rival
'I beg you on my bended knees'
'I'm the one who wants you'
Urging her to call when in need
Asking partner to stop the hurt
Bridge appeals 'If I were you'
'Tell me, oh, what can I do?'
'If she turns up while I'm gone, please let me know'
'Hold me, love me' as urgent request
Begs new partner not to wear red
Why are you laughing at my pain?
Direct appeal: 'Won't you please, please, help me?'
Begging her to come back
'Treat me like you did the night before'
Resigned, not desperate
Warning framed as threat, not begging
Repeated appeal to be seen and trusted
Asking her to wait for his return
Reverse plea – narrator brushes off the suitor
'Please listen' to the nowhere man
Frustrated appeal to be heard
'I need to make you see'
Pressing partner to see his side
Warning her to behave or flee
Begs publisher to accept his manuscript
'Got to get you into my life'
'Love me while you can'
Invitation to tea
'I need somebody to love'
'Try to realise it's all within yourself'
'Please, don't be long'
Encouragement to rise and be free
Repeated 'why don't we…' invitation
'Don't pass me by, don't make me cry'
Begs her to sail home
Patient willingness to wait
Coaxing her to leave her room
'Come on, let's take it easy'
'Please remember me', 'don't forget me'
Invitation to confide if lonely
Begs lover not to disappoint him
'Get back to where you once belonged'
Begging her not to leave
Desperate, repeated demand
Counsel to surrender, not desperate
Begs 'lead me to your door'
'I begged her on my bended knees'
Asking the absent one to return
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