You Won
The Beatles Lyrics


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When I call you up your line's engaged.
I have had enough, so act your age,
We have lost the time that was so hard to find,
And I will lose my mind,
If you won't see me, you won't see me.

I don't know why you should want to hide,
But I can't get through my hands are tied,
I won't want to stay I don't have much to say,
But I get turned away.
And you won't see me, you won't see me.

Time after time you refuse to even listen,
I wouldn't mind if I knew what I was missing.
Though the days are few they're filled with tears,
And since I lost you it feels like years,
Yes it seems so long girl since you've been gone,
I just can't go on,
If you won't see me, you won't see me.

Time after time you refuse to even listen,
I wouldn't mind if I knew what I was missing.
Though the days are few they're filled with tears,
And since I lost you it feels like years,
Yes it seems so long girl since you've been gone,




I just can't go on,
If you won't see me, you won't see me.

Overall Meaning

"You Won't See Me" is a song by The Beatles that appears on their sixth studio album, Rubber Soul, released in 1965. The song is written by Paul McCartney and is about a failing relationship where one partner is avoiding communication and disconnecting from the other. The lyrics express the frustrations and feelings of impotence when trying to reach out to someone who is unwilling or unable to connect emotionally. The repetition of the line "If you won't see me" in the chorus emphasizes the desperation and desire for the relationship to work despite the obstacles.


The opening lines of "When I call you up, your line's engaged. I have had enough, so act your age," indicate that McCartney is frustrated with the lack of communication and maturity of his partner. The verse "I don't know why you should want to hide, but I can't get through, my hands are tied" suggests that there may be secrets or issues that the other person is unwilling to confront. Despite the difficult times, McCartney is still hopeful that the relationship can be repaired, as he sings "Though the days are few, they're filled with tears, and since I lost you, it feels like years."


One interesting fact about the song is that it was one of the first Beatles songs to use a Mellotron, an electronic keyboard that can reproduce the sound of various instruments. The Mellotron is heard in the song's introduction and in the solo section before the final chorus. Another interesting fact is that the song was released as a single in the Philippines in 1966, with "I'm Looking Through You" as the B-side.


Line by Line Meaning

When I call you up your line's engaged.
Every time I try to reach out to you, I hit a dead end because you are either ignoring me or too busy for me.


I have had enough, so act your age,
I am tired of your childish behavior and it's about time you start acting maturely and responsibly.


We have lost the time that was so hard to find,
We have wasted valuable time that we could never get back, which we struggled to find in the first place.


And I will lose my mind,
Your behavior is frustrating me to the point of losing my sanity.


If you won't see me, you won't see me.
If you continue to ignore me and refuse to meet me, it is your loss, not mine.


I don't know why you should want to hide,
I am clueless as to why you are avoiding me or keeping something from me.


But I can't get through my hands are tied,
I cannot seem to reach out to you or establish contact because of some barrier, and I am helpless.


I won't want to stay I don't have much to say,
I have nothing left to talk about, and I am not interested in prolonging this relationship.


But I get turned away.
However, you still reject me whenever I try to leave.


And you won't see me, you won't see me.
If you continue to ignore and reject me, you will never get to see or experience the good things about me.


Time after time you refuse to even listen,
Repeatedly, you have chosen not to hear me out or understand my point of view.


I wouldn't mind if I knew what I was missing.
If you could tell me what it is that I have done wrong, I would be open to working on it and correcting my mistakes.


Though the days are few they're filled with tears,
The limited time we had together is now characterized by sadness and sorrow.


And since I lost you it feels like years,
Ever since you left me, time seems to stand still, and every moment feels like an eternity.


Yes it seems so long girl since you've been gone,
The duration of your absence seems endless to me, making it even more difficult to cope.


I just can't go on,
I am unable to function normally or continue living my life without you by my side.


If you won't see me, you won't see me.
If you persist in avoiding me, you will only miss out on the opportunity to reconcile and make things right.




Lyrics ยฉ Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: JOHN LENNON, JOHN WINSTON LENNON, PAUL MCCARTNEY, PAUL JAMES MCCARTNEY

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Writer, lead vocal: Paul McCartney

When I call you up, your line's engaged.
์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ๋ฉด ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๊ณ„์† ํ†ตํ™”์ค‘
I have had enough, so act your age.
์ด์   ์ง€๊ฒจ์›Œ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ ๋‚˜์ด์— ๊ฑธ๋งž๊ฒŒ ํ–‰๋™ํ•ด
We have lost the time
์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์ง€
That was so hard to find,
๋Œ€๋‹จํžˆ ์–ป๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์› ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„
And I will lose my mind
๋‚œ ๋ฏธ์ณ ๋ฒ„๋ฆด ๊ฑฐ์•ผ
If you won't see me,
๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ ค ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด

I don't know why you should want to hide.
๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์ˆจ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด
But I can't get through my hands are tied.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚œ ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด, ๋‚ด ์†์ด ๋ฌถ์—ฌ ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ 
I won't want to stay,
๋‚˜๋Š” ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์•„
I don't have much to say,
ํ•  ๋ง๋„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†์–ด
But I can't turn away
๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์™ธ๋ฉดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์–ด
And you won't see me,
๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ ค ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„ค

Time after time
๋ช‡ ๋ฒˆ์ด๊ณ 
You refuse to even listen
๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋‚ด ๋ง์„ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์กฐ์ฐจ ์‹ซ์–ดํ•˜์ง€
I wouldn't mind (no I wouldn't, no I wouldn't)
๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ์˜์น˜ ์•Š์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ
If I knew what I was missing.
๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ญ˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด

Though the days are few,
์–ผ๋งˆ ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ๋‚ ๋“ค์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ
They're filled with tears.
๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“์ฐฌ ๋‚˜๋‚ ์ด์•ผ
And since I lost you it feels like years.
๋‹น์‹ ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ช‡ ๋…„์ด ๋œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„
Yes, it seems so long
๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์•„์ฃผ ์˜ค๋žœ ์„ธ์›”์ด ์ง€๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„
Girl, since you've been gone,
๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋– ๋‚œ ํ›„๋กœ
And I just can't go on
๋‚˜๋Š” ์‚ด์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ
If you won't see me,
๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ ค ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด



All comments from YouTube:

Henri Armanda

Itโ€™s hard singing while playing those basslines. Respect

IIExhibitAII

100% true.. been playing bass for a while and used to play cover songs in a band for parties and I had a tough time doing the chorus while playing the bass lol.. no way in hell could I do this haha

Tony Valle

Nevermind that he was born right handed.

Nathan Zaworski;

Heโ€™s gotta be the best Paul. Some very hard bass lines to sing over and he can play em all!

Tuners

Yeah. That's true... that's why I left my bass & returned to regular guitar.

Tom Santos

He's a genius.

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Jayne Falconer

Nice to hear tribute bands who will play all the Beatles songs not just the popular ones. I've notice some fans don't know a lot of the other songs which I personally love more than the popular ones. I'm from Liverpool in the UK the original Beatles home town and a massive Beatles fan :)

Leo B

@Eobard Gabriel its called scouser accent and its hideous lol

Eobard Gabriel

So you have beautiful accent (British one).?

Gregory Wheless

Agree 100% I'm 63 and my Dad was a sales rep for Capital Records 1957-1969 so our family grew up with the Beatles . Back then, here in the US , the radio stations of course, played their hit singles . But when my Dad would bring home a new album, I'd listen to it before it hit the record stores and wonder which songs would become hits . I'd usually like the ones that didn't make their greatest hits list like You Won't See Me , I'm Only Sleeping , Dr. Robert etc..

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