I started these Beatles weekends with the first track from their first album — ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ on Please Please Me. I’ve since dedicated a week to every Beatles album (with the exception of the lame Yellow Submarine) so I’m circling back around to again focus on their debut.
The band famously recorded the whole album in just under ten hours, essentially capturing on tape the live show they’d been performing for months in the Cavern Club (that’s where they racked up those 10,000 hours of practice Malcolm Gladwell writes about in Outliers). Six of the songs were covers while the eight originals made it clear right out of the gate that Lennon and McCartney were expert songwriters.
The title track is one of those fine originals (though not my favorite from the album… stay tuned until tomorrow for that one), one of about a dozen early Beatles classics that would have cemented their place in pop history even if they hadn’t gone on to revolutionize music in so many other ways.
It has been surmised, but never confirmed, that this song is about oral sex. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
I know you never even try girl,
C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon)
Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you
You don’t need me to show the way, love
Why do I always have to say “love?”
C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon)
Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you
I don’t wanna sound complaining,
But you know there’s always rain in my heart (in my heart).
I do all the pleasing with you it’s so hard to reason
With you, whoa yeah, why do you make me blue?
Last night I said these words to my girl,
I know you never even try girl,
C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon) C’mon (C’mon)
Please please me, whoa yeah, like I please you
Meet Me In Montauk 
As it’s 11:46 p.m., and I’m just now writing the first comment, clearly nobody knew quite what to say about this lovely little ditty 😉 I’d say the song can be a bit more open-ended than that… it could be about any number of ways to please, please one. Sexually or emotionally being the most likely.
Wow–never had heard that one before! Puts this ditty in a whole new light:)