The Beatles Wednesday

Hello Goodbye doesn't get the respect it deserves as a perfect pop song; it usually gets tossed aside as "typical pap from Paul" because as we already know people are dumb and lazy. Grrrr.

The lyrics are deceptively simple and therein easy to be accused of the typical "Paul never bothered to write lyrics like John!" garbage (although I can promise you if John had written it the song would be filed under "unequaled Lennon genius of 11th-level chess layers"). Of course the brilliance is that the lyrics can be as simple (at face value) or complex (McCartney's always said the phrasing is about existential duality but that always feels like a BIT of a snow job but not at all unbelievable) as you want at any given listen.

I won't even remark on the music of the song which is typical Macca period genius (the seemingly unending circularity collapsing upon itself again & again is inspiring), but what's truly great is that after an already great song comes the cherry on top, the sing-along coda that's beyond fun & catchy and maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe was a warmup job for the ensuing year's Hey Jude?

Anyway this is a perfect pop song and anyone who tries to tell you differently is an idiot.