There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends, I still can recall
Some are dead, and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more

In my life, I love you more


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In My Life Lyrics as written by Paul Mccartney John Lennon

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    Yeah, I definitely like this track. Obviously, not every single Beatles track is not going to be about drug references.

    This lyric, in fact, bears a resemblance to Charles Lamb's poem "The Old Familiar Faces" which John could have come across in the popular poetry anthology "Palgraves Treasury". The poem goes like so:

    I have had playmates, I have had companions,
    In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days–
    All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

    I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
    Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies– All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

    I loved a Love once, fairest among women:
    Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her–
    All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

    I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man: Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly;
    Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.

    Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood,
    Earth seem'd a desert I was bound to traverse,
    Seeking to find the old familiar faces.

    Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother,
    Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling?
    So might we talk of the old familiar faces–

    How some they have died, and some they have left me,
    And some are taken from me; all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

    Bobo192on March 09, 2003   Link

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