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For No One
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
Paul McCartney:
Vocals, bass guitar, piano, clavichord
Ringo Starr: Drums, tambourine, maracas
Alan Civil:
French horn
Recorded
May 9, 16, 19 1966.
Available on:
Revolver
Paul McCartney
wrote this song while on skiing-holiday in Kloster, Switzerland,
with his girlfriend Jane Asher.
The working
title for the song was Why Did It Die. McCartney was listening
to a lot of classical music at the time, which inspired
songs such as For No One and Eleanor
Rigby, both on Revolver.
Alan Civil
from London Philharmonic Orchestra played the solo on the
French horn. He remembers that he had difficulties tuning
his instrument to the key of the song.
"They
played the existing tape to me, which was complete, and
I thought it had been recoded in rather bad musical style,
in that it was 'in the cracks', neither B-flat nor B-major.
This posed a certain difficulty in tuning my instrument,"
he said in Mark Lewisohn's book The
Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.
"Paul
said 'We want something there. Can you play something that
fits in?' It was rather difficult to actually understand
exactly what they wanted so I made something up which was
a middle register, a baroque style solo. I played it several
times, each take wiping out the previous attempt."
"For
me it was just another day's work, the third session that
day in fact, but it was very interesting."
John and
George did not play on the recording of For No One at all.
For
No One
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
Your day
breaks, your mind aches
You find that all her words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you
She wakes
up, she makes up
She takes her time and doesn’t feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
You want her, you need her
And yet you don’t believe her
When she says her love is dead
You think she needs you
And in
her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
You stay home, she goes out
She says that long ago she knew someone but now
He’s gone, she doesn’t need him
Your day breaks, your mind aches
There will be times when all the things she said will fill
her head
You won’t forget her
And in
her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
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