Remembering the Beatles - "Rubber Soul" Quiz

Answer: Peanut

Paul McCartney's lyrics are full of sexual innuendo about a female car owner who tells a man, "Baby, you can drive my car, yes, I'm gonna be a star, and maybe I'll love you." Paul's suggestive words also include the line, "Working for peanuts is all very fine, but I can show you a better time."

Answer: On a rug

John Lennon wrote of an old love affair with the words, "I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me". The lyrics continue, "...she told me to sit anywhere, so I looked around, and I noticed there wasn't a chair I sat on a rug biding my time, drinking her wine, we talked until two..."

Answer: Tears

At the time he wrote "You Won't See Me", Paul McCartney was romantically involved with actress Jane Asher. The song reflects Paul's dissatisfaction with the relationship, as Jane was often too busy with her own career to give Paul the attention he desires. "Time after time, you refuse to even listen, I wouldn't mind, if I knew what I was missing. Though the days are few, they're filled with tears, and since I lost you, it feels like years".

Answer: Nobody

The distinction of this song is that is was the first Beatle song not about love. It is said that John Lennon wrote it while feeling desperate and inadequate after a marathon songwriting session. "He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to, isn't he a bit like you and me?"

Answer: Opaque

George Harrison's lyrics encourage people to not trust the government and to think for themselves. "Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to, think for yourself, 'cause I won't be there with you. Although your mind's opaque, try thinking more if just for your own sake."

Answer: Freedom

Inspired by "Long Tall Sally", this was the first song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney that contained only one note. "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."

Answer: Amour

It is said that Paul McCartney got his inspiration for this classic tune from seeing a group of bearded, beret-wearing French art students. He was assisted with the French lyrics by a friend. "Michelle, ma belle, Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble."

Answer: Lips

Paul McCartney's volatile relationship with his girlfriend, Jane Asher, was the inspiration for many of his songs. He wrote the resentful "I'm Looking Through You" after their final breakup.
"I'm looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don't look different, but you have changed, I'm looking through you, you're not the same. Your lips are moving, I cannot hear, Your voice is soothing, but the words aren't clear.
You don't sound different, I've learned the game, I'm looking through you, you're not the same."

Answer: Wall

Written by George Harrison for his girlfriend Pattie, the song used only the D chord. "Had you come some other day, then it might not have been like this, but you see now I'm too much in love. Carve your number on my wall, and maybe you will get a call from me, if I needed someone, ah, ah, ah, ah."

Answer: wicked

This was not one of John Lennon's favorite songs, which is why it is the last one on the album. The threatening lyrics start with, "well I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man". It follows with, "Well I know that I'm a wicked guy, and I was born with a jealous mind." Poor girl.