Second person
Addressed to 'you' - the singer speaking directly to someone
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Song count per year
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% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)
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Songs(111 of 126)
P.S. I Love You
28 pronouns (65%)
Love Me Do
10 pronouns (33%)
Please Please Me
11 pronouns (33%)
There's a Place
6 pronouns (33%)
Do You Want to Know a Secret
16 pronouns (73%)
From Me to You
21 pronouns (51%)
Thank You Girl
14 pronouns (56%)
She Loves You
Addresses the wronged boyfriend
I'll Get You
20 pronouns (61%)
All My Loving
Addresses absent lover
Not a Second Time
10 pronouns (38%)
It Won't Be Long
7 pronouns (30%)
I Wanna Be Your Man
35 pronouns (51%)
Little Child
7 pronouns (33%)
All I've Got to Do
17 pronouns (45%)
Hold Me Tight
25 pronouns (64%)
I Want to Hold Your Hand
19 pronouns (38%)
This Boy
7 pronouns (70%)
Sie Liebt Dich
Addresses 'du' throughout
I Call Your Name
8 pronouns (31%)
Can't Buy Me Love
12 pronouns (32%)
You Can't Do That
26 pronouns (52%)
Tell Me Why
22 pronouns (41%)
A Hard Day's Night
18 pronouns (43%)
I Should Have Known Better
19 pronouns (41%)
I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
16 pronouns (44%)
I'll Be Back
16 pronouns (50%)
Any Time at All
10 pronouns (63%)
What You're Doing
13 pronouns (54%)
No Reply
17 pronouns (40%)
I'm Down
15 pronouns (88%)
You Like Me Too Much
28 pronouns (44%)
I Need You
23 pronouns (46%)
Tell Me What You See
25 pronouns (58%)
The Night Before
21 pronouns (47%)
It's Only Love
9 pronouns (41%)
You're Going to Lose That Girl
Speaker addresses 'you'
Wait
16 pronouns (53%)
If I Needed Someone
Run for Your Life
30 pronouns (81%)
Drive My Car
15 pronouns (41%)
Nowhere Man
Bridge addresses 'nowhere man' directly
Think for Yourself
Addressed entirely to 'you'
You Won't See Me
16 pronouns (36%)
What Goes On
24 pronouns (52%)
I'm Looking Through You
27 pronouns (68%)
Michelle
13 pronouns (35%)
Rain
6 pronouns (32%)
Paperback Writer
8 pronouns (40%)
Taxman
6 pronouns (46%)
Love You To
6 pronouns (50%)
And Your Bird Can Sing
Direct address: 'you don't get me'
Got to Get You into My Life
22 pronouns (39%)
For No One
Entire song addresses 'you' as protagonist
Tomorrow Never Knows
Addressed to 'you' - instructional
Doctor Robert
'You're a new and better man'
Strawberry Fields Forever
8 pronouns (33%)
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Addresses listener as 'you'
Within You Without You
Addresses the listener directly throughout
Good Morning Good Morning
Shifts to 'you' through verses
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7 pronouns (50%)
When I'm Sixty-Four
16 pronouns (48%)
Baby, You're a Rich Man
All You Need Is Love
Addressed to 'you' - universal/everyperson, not a specific lover
Hello, Goodbye
20 pronouns (41%)
I Am the Walrus
13 pronouns (30%)
Magical Mystery Tour
Addresses listener: 'take you away'
Your Mother Should Know
Addresses 'you' and 'your mother' directly
Blue Jay Way
6 pronouns (38%)
Lady Madonna
Addresses Lady Madonna directly
The Inner Light
Verse 2 'your door / your window'
Revolution
Hey Jude
Direct address to Jude throughout
Don't Pass Me By
23 pronouns (39%)
Martha My Dear
Direct address to Martha throughout
Honey Pie
9 pronouns (33%)
Cry Baby Cry
14 pronouns (58%)
Good Night
Piggies
4 pronouns (31%)
Back in the U.S.S.R.
13 pronouns (42%)
I Will
17 pronouns (57%)
Savoy Truffle
Addresses Clapton: 'you'll have to have them all pulled out'
Birthday
12 pronouns (55%)
Sexy Sadie
Directly addresses Sadie
Glass Onion
9 pronouns (60%)
Dear Prudence
Direct address to Prudence
Revolution 1
'You say...', 'You tell me...'
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
14 pronouns (56%)
I'm So Tired
15 pronouns (44%)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
11 pronouns (38%)
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
8 pronouns (57%)
Helter Skelter
Addressed to "you" - "do you want me", "tell me the answer"
Long, Long, Long
12 pronouns (50%)
Blackbird
Addresses the blackbird directly
Only a Northern Song
4 pronouns (31%)
Hey Bulldog
Direct address to 'you'
It's All Too Much
12 pronouns (40%)
Get Back
9 pronouns (39%)
Old Brown Shoe
21 pronouns (60%)
The Ballad of John and Yoko
21 pronouns (60%)
Oh! Darling
23 pronouns (48%)
The End
27 pronouns (96%)
You Never Give Me Your Money
7 pronouns (50%)
Polythene Pam
'You should see Polythene Pam'
Golden Slumbers
3 pronouns (50%)
Carry That Weight
Chorus addresses 'Boy, you're gonna...'
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
26 pronouns (42%)
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
53 pronouns (61%)
For You Blue
13 pronouns (48%)
Dig a Pony
34 pronouns (74%)
Now and Then
11 pronouns (41%)
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