Song

I Want You

Release date: 26 September 1969

I want you
I want you so bad.
I want you.
I want you so bad,
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.

I want you.
I want you so bad, babe.
I want you.
I want you so bad,
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.

I want you
I want you so bad, babe.
I want you.
You know I want you so bad,
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.

I want you
I want you so bad.
I want you.
I want you so bad,
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad.
I want you.
I want you so bad,
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad

She's so heavy, heavy.

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Song by the Beatles from the album Abbey Road
Released 26 September 1969
Recorded 22 February-11 August 1969,
EMI and Trident studios, London
Genre Hard rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock
Length 7:47
Label Apple Records
Writer Lennon-McCartney
Producer George Martin
Abbey Road track listing
17 tracks
Side one
  1. "Come Together"
  2. "Something"
  3. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
  4. "Oh! Darling"
  5. "Octopus's Garden"
  6. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Side two
  1. "Here Comes the Sun"
  2. "Because"
  3. "You Never Give Me Your Money"
  4. "Sun King"
  5. "Mean Mr. Mustard"
  6. "Polythene Pam"
  7. "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"
  8. "Golden Slumbers"
  9. "Carry That Weight"
  10. "The End"
  11. "Her Majesty"

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is a song by the Beatles, from their album Abbey Road. It was written by John Lennon, but credited to Lennon-McCartney.

This song is an unusual Beatles composition for a variety of reasons, namely its length (nearly eight minutes), few lyrics (basically the title is the lyric, aside from two more phrases; only 14 different words are sung), a three-minute descent through repeated guitar chords (a similar arpeggiated figure appears in another Lennon contribution to the album, "Because"), and abrupt ending. It is one of the last songs that the Beatles mixed as a group, on 20 August 1969.

©1969 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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