Negative tone

Misery

Little Child

Not a Second Time

Don't Bother Me

This Boy

I Call Your Name

You Can't Do That

I'll Be Back

I'll Cry Instead

Tell Me Why

I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

I'll Follow the Sun

I'm a Loser

Baby's in Black

No Reply

What You're Doing

Ticket to Ride

Yes It Is

I'm Down

Help!

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

I Need You

Yesterday

The Night Before

Think for Yourself

Day Tripper

Cynical put-down of a teaser and a fake hippie

You Won't See Me

Girl

I'm Looking Through You

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Nowhere Man

Run for Your Life

What Goes On

Taxman

Love You To

And Your Bird Can Sing

Put-down framed as polite address

She Said She Said

Dissociation, madness, no resolution

Eleanor Rigby

For No One

Bleak portrait of a relationship's end

She's Leaving Home

Painful generational rupture; sympathetic but sad

Good Morning Good Morning

Bleak suburban ennui under cheerful greeting

A Day in the Life

Detached despair beneath the dream-middle

Blue Jay Way

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Lament over dormant love and world's failures

Sexy Sadie

Bitter accusation of betrayal

I'm So Tired

Exhaustion, frustration, insomnia

Don't Pass Me By

Anxious waiting; partner may have left

Piggies

Satirical contempt for the establishment

Yer Blues

Despair frames the song despite parodic register

Only a Northern Song

Sarcastic self-deprecation masking resentment

The Ballad of John and Yoko

You Never Give Me Your Money

Mean Mr. Mustard

Squalor and contempt undercut the comic tone

Carry That Weight

Burden imagery; 'I break down'

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Obsession, madness, oppressive weight

Oh! Darling

Desperate pleading, fear of abandonment

The Long and Winding Road

Yearning unresolved; pleading from loneliness

I Me Mine

Cynical observation of ego