Relationship

Love Me Do

Seeking commitment from 'you'

P.S. I Love You

Long-distance commitment

Please Please Me

Reciprocity grievance

Misery

Loss and longing for her return

Do You Want to Know a Secret

Intimate two-person secret

From Me to You

Thank You Girl

Thanking partner for steady love

I'll Get You

Narrator persuading the addressee

She Loves You

Narrator mediates a couple's quarrel

It Won't Be Long

Anticipating partner's return

Hold Me Tight

Hold

I Wanna Be Your Man

Seeks commitment from partner

Not a Second Time

Refusing reconciliation after betrayal

Little Child

Wooing a reluctant partner

All My Loving

Long-distance commitment

All I've Got to Do

Reciprocal commitment between two

Don't Bother Me

Withdrawal after breakup

I Want to Hold Your Hand

Hold, touch

This Boy

Rival, regret, jealousy triangle

Sie Liebt Dich

Reconciliation after a quarrel

Can't Buy Me Love

Negotiating what partner truly wants

I Call Your Name

Breakup aftermath, self-blame

You Can't Do That

Jealousy and possessiveness

Tell Me Why

Confrontation after betrayal

I Should Have Known Better

Kiss

If I Fell

Weighs new love against old

I'm Happy Just to Dance with You

Kiss, hold, hug

Things We Said Today

Long-distance commitment

When I Get Home

Impatient to reunite with her

I'll Cry Instead

Lost the only girl he had

I'll Be Back

Cycle of leaving and returning

I Feel Fine

Secure mutual love

She's a Woman

Trust, jealousy denied, loyalty

Every Little Thing

Settled, secure attachment

Baby's in Black

Triangle: narrator, girl, her dead/lost lover

I'll Follow the Sun

Departing lover; loss anticipated

What You're Doing

Partner causing distress

No Reply

Jealousy, betrayal, confrontation

I'm a Loser

Lost love, regret over the one he 'should never have crossed'

I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

Strained love; partner failed to show

Eight Days a Week

Hold

Yes It Is

Torn between new love and old memory

Ticket to Ride

Partner leaving, dynamic of departure

I'm Down

Mocking, contemptuous lover

I Need You

Lover threatening to leave

It's Only Love

Strained dynamic, nightly fighting

Another Girl

Breakup announcement to former partner

Yesterday

Breakup; she left, he doesn't know why

Tell Me What You See

Seeking trust and commitment

You Like Me Too Much

Partner threatening to leave

You're Going to Lose That Girl

Love triangle, warning rival

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

A partner lost, and no way forward

The Night Before

Abandoned the day after intimacy

We Can Work It Out

Argument and attempt to reconcile

Day Tripper

Narrator deceived by uncommitted partner

If I Needed Someone

Dismissive 'if I had time' stance

Think for Yourself

Severing ties with the addressee

What Goes On

Betrayal by unfaithful partner

I'm Looking Through You

Sense of partner having changed

Girl

Push-pull entanglement, can't leave

You Won't See Me

Communication breakdown with girlfriend

Wait

Conditional on her heart's state

Run for Your Life

Possessive jealousy controlling partner

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Power inversion - she controls the night

For No One

Relationship dying, partner withdrawing

Got to Get You into My Life

Hold, together

Eleanor Rigby

I Want to Tell You

Words slip away whenever 'you' are near

Here, There and Everywhere

Share

Fixing a Hole

Belong

Getting Better

Partner credited with the change

Within You Without You

Share, hold

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

Touch, trust, hold

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

John and Yoko against the paranoid world

Revolution 9

Sorry, forgive, hold

Julia

Touch

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Couple

Martha My Dear

'You and me were meant to be for each other'

Rocky Raccoon

Love triangle, jilted lover

Don't Pass Me By

Fearing partner no longer loves him

I Will

Together, apart

All Together Now

Together

Don't Let Me Down

Dynamics of trust and reciprocation

Old Brown Shoe

Commitment, shedding the old self

Oh! Darling

Fear of being abandoned

Come Together

One After 909

Lover leaving, narrator pleads

I've Got a Feeling

Fear partner may leave

The Long and Winding Road

Absent lover's return implored

Free as a Bird

'Can we really live without each other'