I Need You

George Harrison

By John T. Marck

Recorded on February 15 and 16, 1965, "I Need You," was the second time that The Beatles recorded a Harrison song. It is said that Harrison wrote this love song for his then girlfriend Pattie Boyd. Others implied that when George and Patti broke up temporarily, Harrison wrote this for her while he was in the Bahamas filming. However, since recording began on this song on February 15, 1965, and The Beatles had not yet gone to the Bahamas, this cannot be true. The song is unique as it was the first time Harrison used a wah-wah pedal to distort the sound of the guitar.

You don't realize how much I need you, love you all the time and never leave you

Please come on back to me, I'm lonely as can be,

I need you

Said you had a thing or two to tell me, how was I to know you would upset me

I didn't realize, as I looked in you eyes, you told be, oh, yes you told me

You don't want my lovin' anymore, that's when it hurt me, and feeling like this

I just can't go on anymore

Please remember how I feel about you, I could never really live without you

So come on back and see, just what you mean to me,

I need you

But when you told me, you don't want my lovin' anymore

That's when it hurt me, and feeling like this,

I just can't go on anymore

Please remember how I feel about you, I could never really live without you

So come on back and see, just what you mean to me,

I need you, I need you

I need you

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