She's Leaving Home Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begings
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her hankerchief
Quietly turing the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.
She (We gave her most of our lives)
is leaving (Sacraficed most of our lives)
home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me.
She (We never though of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.
She What did we do that was wrong
Is having We didn't know it was wrong
Fun Fun is the one thing that money can't buy
Something inside that was always denied
For so many years. Bye, Bye
She's leaving home bye bye

 
Lead Singer: Paul

Recording: 3/17/67, 3/20/67
Mixing: 3/20/67, 4/17/67
Length: 2:57
Take: 9

Anomalies

0:13-0:14
Deep breath from Paul
0:11-0:17,1:23,1:28,1:29:2:45
(Left) Clicking from the bodies of the instruments in the strings section (creaking of wood, bows on necks etc.)
This was based on a newspaper story Paul McCartney read about a runaway girl.
Some of the lyrics were things John Lennon's Aunt Mimi said to him as a child. She raised John after his parents separated.
No Beatles played instruments on this. John and Paul contributed vocals, which were double-tracked to sound like a quartet, and session musicians played strings.
The string section was arranged by Mike Leander because producer George Martin was busy. Leander would later arrange strings for The Rolling Stones on "As Tears Go By."
 
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