Lyrics You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

Youve Got to Hide Your Love Away was inspired by Bob Dylan and reflects the folk influences on the Beatles music. John Lennon wrote the lyrics as an expression of his feelings of alienation in relation to his fame. Lennon suggested that the lyrics were autobiographical, expressing his sense of isolation and the need to hide his true feelings. 

Here I stand head in hand,
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on,
Feeling two foot sma-a-all
Everywhere people stare,
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me,
And I hear them sa-a-ay
Hey! You've got to hide your love away
Hey! You've got to hide your love away
How can I even try,
I can never win
Hearing them seeing them
In the state I'm in-i-in
How can she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather 'round all you clowns,
Let me hear you sa-a-ay
Hey! You've got to hide your love away
Hey! You've got to hide your love away

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