John Lennon Instagram – GIRL. 🔴 That’s me! Writing about this dream girl again that hadn’t come yet. ‘Girl’ is real. There is no such thing as the girl; she was a dream, but the words are all right. It wasn’t just a song, and it was about that girl – that turned out to be Yoko in the end – the one that a lot of us were looking for. I never wrote about people except for myself. When Paul and I wrote lyrics in the old days we used to laugh about what Tin Pan Alley people would do. And we’d do it like an exercise. It was only later on that we started to try and match the lyrics to the tune. I like it. It was one of my best. It’s the one we say, ‘tit, tit, tit’ in. I was just talking about Christianity in that – a thing like you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I’m only saying that I was talking about ‘pain will lead to pleasure’ in ‘Girl’ and that was sort of the Catholic Christian concept – be tortured and then it’ll be all right, which seems to be a bit true but not in their concept of it. But I didn’t believe in that, that you have to be tortured to attain anything, it just so happens that you were. The song ‘Woman’ is the grown-up version of ‘Girl’ to me. GIRL. Is there anybody going to listen to my story All about the girl who came to stay She’s the kind of girl you want so much It makes you sorry Still you don’t regret a single day Ah girl Girl girl When I think of all the times I tried so hard to leave her She will turn to me and start to cry And she promises the earth to me And I believe her After all this time I don’t know why Ah girl Girl girl She’s the kind of girl who puts you down When friends are there you feel a fool When you say she’s looking good She acts as if it’s understood She’s cool ooh ooh ooh Ah girl Girl girl Was she told when she was young That pain would lead to pleasure Did she understand it when they said That a man must break his back To earn his day of leisure Will she still believe it when he’s dead Ah girl Girl girl