Song

The Word

Release date: 03 December 1965

Say the word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me.
Say the word I'm thinking of,
Have you heard? The word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

In the beginning I misunderstood,
But now I've got it, the word is good.
Say the word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me.
Say the word I'm thinking of,
Have you heard? The word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

Ev'rywhere I go I hear it said,
In the good and the bad books that I have read.

Say the word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me.
Say the word I'm thinking of,
have you heard? The word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

Now that I know what I feel must be right,
I'm here to show evrybody the light.
Give the word a chance to say,
That the word is just the way.
It's the word I'm thinking of,
And you only word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

Say the word, "love,"
Say the word, "love,"
Say the word, "love."

"The Word"
Song by the Beatles from the album Rubber Soul
Released 3 December 1965
Recorded 10 November 1965
EMI Studios, London
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:41
Label Parlophone
Writer Lennon-McCartney
Producer George Martin
Rubber Soul track listing
14 tracks
Side one
  1. "Drive My Car"
  2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
  3. "You Won't See Me"
  4. "Nowhere Man"
  5. "Think for Yourself"
  6. "The Word"
  7. "Michelle"
Side two
  1. "What Goes On"
  2. "Girl"
  3. "I'm Looking Through You"
  4. "In My Life"
  5. "Wait"
  6. "If I Needed Someone"
  7. "Run for Your Life"

"The Word" is a song by the Beatles first released on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It has been cited as the first instance in which the Beatles began writing about love in more abstract terms, versus concrete girl/boy terms, a la "She Loves You", with preaching lyrics such as "The word is love" and "Say the word and you'll be free".

©1965 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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