Paul McCartney Reveals Emotional Story Behind 'Here Today,' Incident Behind an Infamous Lyric & Healing After John Lennon's Death

On the emotional meaning behind “Here Today”:

“This is basically a memory song, that is a love song to John [Lennon]… It was written after he died, and I was remembering things about our relationship and things about the million things we’d done together. From just being in each others front parlors or bedrooms, or walking on the street together, or hitchhiking”

On how John Lennon’s different perspective strengthened their songwriting:

“That was one of the good things about writing with John, he would often come in from another angle. So if I’m doing a song ‘it’s getting better all the time,’ John might easily say ‘it couldn’t get much worse’ which immediately opens the song right up. That was one of the things I loved about working with him. He could’ve easily said, ‘it’s getting better all the time, yes indeed it is.’”