paul mccartney wrote the lyrics to let it be.
paul mccartney wrote the lyrics to let it be.
who wrote the lyrics to let it be?
paul mccartney
paul wrote "i lost my little girl" just after mary had died, and explained that it was a subconscious reference to his late mother. he also wrote "golden slumbers" at his father's house in heswall, and said the lyrics were taken from ruth mccartney's sheet-music copy of thomas dekker's lullaby—also called "golden slumbers"—that ruth had left on the piano at rembrandt. hunter davies, who was at jim's house at the time doing an interview for his beatles' biography, remembered jim listening to an acetate disc of "when i'm sixty-four". davies wrote that paul recorded the song specifically for his father, as jim was then 64 years old and had married angela two years previously. paul wrote "let it be", because of a dream he had in 1968. he said that he had dreamt of his mother, and the "mother mary" lyric was about her. he later said, "it was great to visit with her again. i felt very blessed to have that dream. so that got me writing 'let it be'."
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allmusic highlighted the song and wrote: "grey is clever enough to allow herself some measure of silliness – there is absolutely no other way to describe the queen-quoting "c'mon let me ride"—a move that reveals the seams in her goth-princess persona and makes a good chunk of "don't look down" come across as nothing more than bubblegum lana del rey." hitfix wrote: "there are times when there's such a disparity between the strength of the beats vs. the strength of the lyrics that miles separate them, no more so than on "c'mon let me ride," the first single that came out in december featuring eminem. the beats are ridiculously infectious and even though the song is meant to be lightheaded, tongue-in-cheek and full of sexual innuendo, the lyrics are so inane: "i'm not like the sluts in this town/they make me blah in my mouth," it's hard to get through it without grimacing." "knoxville news sentinel" wrote: "more than anything, the wisconsin native is bold. she made that much clear with the previously released single "c'mon let me ride," a grainy carnival of a song in which she coos endless innuendo as eminem himself channels pee-wee her-man singing queen's "bicycle race." glenn gamboa of "newsday" was disappointed in her emotionless delivery and he added: "the closest we get to one is playful in the oddly defiant "c'mon, let me ride." "new york post" wrote: "they can sound hollow, like "c'mon let me ride," a silly promise of oral sex. (eminem's surprisingly crafty guest verse is the highlight.)" "now" magazine noted that the song is inane but predictable, too.
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