The Year of the Revolution III The Ripening of the Fruit Chapter 25: Beatles, a harry potter fanfic

Beatles

It was almost seven, Lily and Sev had just finished their homework in her room.

"Let's go with your family, we'll have time later," he said.

They went down to the living room, since Eileen had arrived a while ago.

"What's up, kids? Did you manage to finish your homework?" she asked them.

"Yes, but almost not," answered Sev.

The three adults smiled knowingly at them. Who knows what they've been talking about, Sev thought.

"Would you like me to play music for you for a bit, Severus?" asked Peter.

"Okay…"

"Where do you want to start? Classic or modern?"

"I don't know, what we all like."

"I like anyone, Sev," Violet said. "You choose."

Mum likes the hits of the last decades, which I am sure Violet and Peter also know, since they are of similar ages. "Yesterday one sounded on the radio that caught my attention because of the lyrics and I heard you say that it had been spoiled it, it said something like 'Nothing's gonna change my world…'" Sev hummed.

"Oh, sure! 'Across the Universe', Bowie's version. And you remember it just by having heard it once," Violet said, astonished. "What an ear you have, Sev."

"We have the Beatles album, who are the original band," Peter said. "I'm going to put it on so you can hear the difference."

"Okay."

Peter searched his vast discotheque and pulled out the album. He took out the record and handed Sev the cover. There were four photographs of the members of the band, two of them singing. They all have long hair like me, Sev thought.

"What good taste you have, Severus," Peter was saying to him as he turned on the record player and put on the record. "The Beatles are the best of the past decade and you've hunted them only for the lyrics. When you also listen to the music you will be stunned."

Eileen smiled proudly, she also knew the song.

It started. Sev thought, Oh…!What guitars, how sweet and heartfelt… and strings behind…

Words are flying out like

endless rain into a paper cup

They slither while they pass

They slip away across the universe

Pools of sorrow waves of joy

are drifting thorough my open mind

Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om

Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which

dance before me like a million eyes

That call me on and on across the universe

Thoughts meander like a

restless wind inside a letter box

they tumble blindly as

they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om

"Are you listening to the lyrics, Lily?" Sev whispered to her.

"Yeah…"

"You'll see now."

The second chorus was ending, Lily listened to the last verse very carefully.

Sounds of laughter shades of life

are ringing through my open ears

exciting and inviting me

Limitless undying love which

shines around me like a million suns

It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om

Nothing's gonna change my world

Jai guru deva

When the song finished she said, amazed, "Wow, Sev! It is what we feel in the fir tree, the love of the Universe."

"Do you see?" he told her.

"And the music, what did you think about it, Severus?" asked Peter.

"Wonderful."

"It's one of their best songs, but they have dozens of incredible ones. Do you want me to make a selection for you? I have all their records."

"If the others like them…"

"Sure, Sev," Violet said. "I love them."

"Yes, son, me too," Eileen said.

"Yes, yes, Sev," Lily said. "Let's listen to more songs like that."

We're missing Petunia, Sev thought. "Okay, but I'm going to call Petunia too," Sev said.

"I'm going, Sev, don't worry, I'm sure she'll come down," Violet said. "You keep listening, I've heard them thousands of times." Violet got up and went to find Tuney.

Peter told him, "I am going to give you a chronological review, from their beginnings, because they are a very atypical band, they improved over time, unlike almost all the others."

"Oh…"

"They started in '62, when you were two years old."

When I manifested my magic, when Ariel was born.

Peter was putting several songs from each album of theirs. Petunia came down and sat next to her sister on the couch, Eileen and Violet were in the armchairs and Peter, delighted with life, while the songs played, was selecting the next track to put on the covers, which he passed to Sev so that he could see them, and announced the titles so that he could write them down in his notebook.

Already from the first one Sev appreciated the quality. Well, if they were improving, how will the last ones be? The adults were silent and enjoyed so that the teens also appreciated the music. First of all, 'Love me do' sounded.

Love, love me do.

You know I love you,

I'll always be true,

So please, love me do.

Whoa, love me do.

Lily hummed it to him from the second verse,

"Love, love me do.

You know I love you

I'll always be true,

So please, love me do.

Whoa, love me do."

Someone to love,

Somebody new.

Someone to love,

Someone like you.

"Love, love me do.

You know I love you

I'll always be true,

So please, love me do.

Whoa, love me do.

Love, love me do.

You know I love you

I'll always be true,

So please, love me do.

Whoa, love me do.

Yeah, love me do.

Whoa, oh, love me do."

In the next one, 'She Loves You', Lily hummed the refrain for him,

"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"

But Sev was paying attention to all the lyrics, and she would squeeze his hand to confirm it.

You think you lost your love,

Well, I saw her yesterday.

It's you she's thinking of

And she told me what to say.

She says she loves you

And you know that can't be bad.

Yes, she loves you

And you know you should be glad.

She said you hurt her so

She almost lost her mind.

But now she said she knows

You're not the hurting kind.

She says she loves you

And you know that can't be bad.

Yes, she loves you

And you know you should be glad. Ooh!

"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah"

And with a love like that

You know you should be glad.

Although it's up to you,

I think it's only fair,

Pride can hurt you, too,

Apologize to her

Because she loves you

And you know that can't be bad.

Yes, she loves you

And you know you should be glad. Ooh!

"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah"

And with a love like that

You know you should be glad.

With a love like that

You know you should be glad.

With a love like that,

You know you sho-o-ould

Be Glad!

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah Ye-ah.

And she did the same with 'I want to hold your hand'.

Oh yeah, I´ll tell you something,

I think you´ll understand.

When I´ll say that something

"I wanna hold your hand,

I wanna hold your hand,

I wanna hold your hand."

Oh please, say to me

You´ll let me be your man

And please, say to me

You´ll let me hold your hand.

"Now let me hold your hand,

I wanna hold your hand."

And when I touch you I feel happy inside.

It´s such a feeling that my love

I can´t hide, I can´t hide, I can´t hide.

He whispered to her, "This seems written just for me."

And Lily remembered how many years he had been content with just that, holding her hand, and she almost cried. Both were in heaven.

Yeah, you got that something,

I think you´ll understand.

When I´ll say that something

"I wanna hold your hand,

I wanna hold your hand,

I wanna hold your hand."

And when I touch you I feel happy inside.

It´s such a feeling that my love

"I can´t hide, I can´t hide, I can´t hide."

Yeah, you got that something,

I think you´ll understand.

When I feel that something

"I wanna hold your hand,

I wanna hold your hand,

I wanna hold your hand."

With 'I love her' they no longer held back from looking at each other.

I give her all my love

That's all I do

And if you saw my love

You'd love her to

I love her

She gives my everything

And tenderly

The kiss my lover brings

She brings to me

And I love her

"It's also for Lauren…" Lily whispered.

A love like ours

Could never die

As long as I

Have you near me

Bright are the stars that shine

Dark is the sky

I know this love of mine

Will never die

And I love her

Bright are the stars that shine

Dark is the sky

I know this love of mine

Will never die

And I love her, ooh

Then came 'Yesterday'. With this Sev almost cried remembering those times so far away when despite domestic torture he was happy with Lily on the river bank.

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be,

There's a shadow hanging over me.

Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.

Now I need a place to hide away.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.

Now I need a place to hide away.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

About 'Help' Peter told them, "This was also very famous."

Help, I need somebody,

Help, not just anybody,

Help, you know I need someone, help.

Whoaaah… what a blast… Petunia was humming along.

When I was younger, so much younger than today,

I never needed anybody's help in any way.

But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,

Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down

And I do appreciate you being round.

Help me, get my feet back on the ground,

Won't you please, please help me.

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,

My independence seems to vanish in the haze.

But every now and then I feel so insecure,

I know that I just need you like I've never done before.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down

And I do appreciate you being round.

Help me, get my feet back on the ground,

Won't you please, please help me.

"Wow… Lily, it seems written for me," Sev said.

"Yeah…"

When I was younger, so much younger than today,

I never needed anybody's help in any way.

But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,

Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down

And I do appreciate you being round.

Help me, get my feet back on the ground,

Won't you please, please help me, help me, help me, oh.

He loved the instrumental beginning of 'Day Tripper'. They are already changing. And the same with 'Drive my car'. But when it came 'Norwegian Wood', he was amazed.

"This is amazing, Peter," Sev said.

"We completely agree, Severus," Lily's Dad replied.

"What instrument is that?"

"A sitar, an Indian guitar."

India, subject to the British Empire.

I once had a girl

Or should I say she once had me

She showed me her room

Isn't it good Norwegian wood?

She asked me to stay

And 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 and then she said

it's time for bed

She told me she worked

in the morning and started to laugh

I told her I didn't

and crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke I was alone

This bird had flown

So I lit a fire

Isn't it good Norwegian wood?

Then it played 'Michelle'.

Michelle, ma belle.

These are words that go together well

My Michelle.

Michelle, ma belle.

Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble

Tres bien ensemble.

Oh… how sweet and romantic.Each song is different, and they sing in another language, French? Sev wondered.

I love you, I love you, I love you.

That's all I want to say.

Until I find a way

I will say the only words I know that you'll understand

By the third verse he was singing into Lily's ear,

"Lily, ma belle..."

Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble

Tres bien ensemble.

I need you, I need you, I need you.

I need to make you see,

oh, what you mean to me.

Until I do I'm hoping you will know what I mean.

I love you.

I want you, I want you, I want you.

I think you know by now.

I'll get to you somehow.

Until I do I'm telling you so you'll understand.

"Lily, ma belle…"

Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble,

Tres bien ensemble.

I will say the only words I know,

That you'll understand

My Michelle.

They also looked at each other with 'In my life'.

There are places I'll remember all my life,

Though some have changed.

Some forever not for better

Some have gone and some remain.

Lily whispered to him. "The park, the river, the Library, the beech tree, the Haven, your clearing in the Forest…"

"And your room..."

All these places had their moments

With lovers and friends I still can recall.

Some are dead and some are living,

In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers

There is no one compares with you.

And these memories lose their meaning

When I think of love as something new.

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more.

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more.

Then it played 'Eleanor rigby'. Strings again, what a blast, I love it.

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been

Lives in a dream

Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door

Who is it for?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

"This is fantastic, Peter," Sev said.

The man was smiling satisfied. "What an ear you have, boy…"

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear

No one comes near.

Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there

What does he care?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name

Nobody came

Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave

No one was saved

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

"Here I go with 'Yellow submarine'," said Peter. "I don't like this one too much, but I'm putting it here because it became very famous, they even made a cartoon movie, and it has funny details."

In the town where I was born

Lived a man who sailed to sea

And he told us of his life

In the land of submarines

So we sailed up to the sun

Till we found the sea of green

And we lived beneath the waves

In our yellow submarine

Petunia was humming the refrain,

"We all live in our yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in our yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine."

"Have you heard the sound of water?" Peter asked him.

"Yeah," Sev replied.

"And the winds?"

"I have."

And our friends are all on board

many more of them live next door

and the band begins to play

"We all live in our yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in our yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine."

As we live a life of ease

everyone of us has all we need

sky of blue and sea of green

In our yellow submarine

"We all live in our yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in our yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

We all live in our yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all live in our yellow submarine…"

The next one that played was 'Strawberry fields'.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.

It doesn't matter much to me.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.

No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.

That is, you can't, you know, tune in, but it's all right.

That is, I think it's not too bad.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.

Always no sometimes think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream.

I think a No, I mean a Yes, but it's all wrong.

That is, I think I disagree.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.

"This song is inspired by Lennon's childhood memories, when he played in the garden of a Salvation Army children's home called Strawberry Field, located near where he grew up in Liverpool," Peter explained. "And the next one also talks about childhood memories, of McCartney and Lennon, from a geographical point in the suburbs of Liverpool close to their homes, at a crossroads on the street that he mentions, Penny Lane."

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs

Of every head he´s had the pleasure to know

And all the people that come and go

Stop and say hello.

On the corner is a banker with a motorcar,

The little children laugh at him behind his back.

And the banker never wears a mac

In the pouring rain, very strange.

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.

There beneath the blue suburban skies

I sit and meanwhile back

In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass

And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen.

He likes to keep his fire engine clean,

It´s a clean machine.

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.

A four of fish and finger pies

In summer, meanwhile back

Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout

The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray

And though she feels as if she´s in a play

She is anyway.

In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer,

We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim.

And then the fireman rushes in

From the pouring rain, very strange.

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.

There beneath the blue suburban skies

I sit and meanwhile back.

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.

There beneath the blue suburban skies,

Penny Lane.

"Do you want me to make dinner?""Eileen asked.

"Are you guys hungry or can you hold on a little longer?" Violet asked.

"There's still a lot?" Lily asked.

"Half, more or less," answered Peter.

"So we continue, what do you say?"

"Perfect for me, the best is coming," said Peter.

"Don't worry, Eileen, even if we have dinner a little later it's okay, we're enjoying ourselves so much…" Violet said.

"Okay, besides, with magic it's a moment," Eileen said.

"Look, Severus," Peter handed him the cover. "This was the radical change they made in '67. For me I would put it all, but I will continue selecting, you will listen to them in summer."

"Sure…"

The cover depicted a crowd of people gathered, in the form of small superimposed photos, with the members of the band, dressed in colorful military uniforms, in the center. The first song started.

It was twenty years ago today,

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play

They've been going in and out of style

But they're guaranteed to raise a smile

So may I introduce to you

The act you've known for all these years

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

We hope you will enjoy the show

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sit back and let the evening go

Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

It's wonderful to be here

It's certainly a thrill

You're such a lovely audience

We'd like to take you home with us

We'd love to take you home

I don't really want to stop the show

But I thought that you might like to know

That the singer's going to sing a song

And he wants you all to sing along

So let me introduce to you

The one and only Billy Shears

And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The next song began without a cut between the two, Peter made him see it and also told him. "Look at the lyrics, it's perfect for you."

What would you think if I sang out of tune

Would you stand up and walk out on me

Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song

And I´ll try not to sing out of key

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends

Mmm I´m gonna try with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my love is away

(Does it worry you to be alone)

How do I feel by the end of the day

(Are you sad because you're on your own)

No, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends

Mmm I´m gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody

I need somebody to love

Could it be anybody

I want somebody to love

Would you believe in a love at first sight

Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time

What do you see when you turn out the light

I can't tell you, but I know it's mine

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends

Oh, I´m gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody

I need somebody to love

Could it be anybody

I want somebody to love

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mmm I´m gonna try with a little help from my friends

Oh, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mmm I´m gonna try with a little help from my friends

Yes, I get by with a little help from my friends

With a little help from my friends

"Absolutely right, Peter…" Sev agreed.

Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, a girl with caleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah, ah

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain where rocking horsepeople eat marshmallow pies,

Everyone smiles as you driftpast the flowers that grow so incredibly high.

Newspaper taxis appear on the shorewaiting to take you away

Climb in the back with your head in the cloudsand you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah, ah

Picture yourself on a train in a stationwith plasticine porters with looking glass ties,

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,the girl with caleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah, ah

"Wow, this is amazing," Sev commented.

"This record is priceless," Lily's Dad agreed.

"And the lyrics are very strange."

"It was the era of psychedelia, the initials of the title have a double meaning, 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'. LSD is the name of a drug that causes hallucinations and caused a sensation at the time, many artists consumed it."

"Oh…"

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah, ah

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds…

Then it played 'Getting better'.

It's getting better all the time

I used to get mad at my school

The teachers who taught me weren't cool

You're holding me down, turning me round

Filling me up with your rules

I've got to admit it's getting better

A little better all the time

I have to admit it's getting better

It's getting better since you've been mine

Me used to be an angry young man

Me hiding me head in the sand

You gave me the word

I finally heard

I'm doing the best that I can

I've got to admit it's getting better

A little better all the time

I've got to admit it's getting better

It's getting better since you've been mine

Getting so much better all the time

It's getting better all the time

I used to be cruel to my woman

I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved

Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene

And I'm doing the best that I can

I admit it's getting better

A little better all the time

Yes I admit it's getting better

It's getting better since you've been mine

Getting so much better all the time

It's getting better all the time

Getting so much better all the time

And then 'Fixing a hole'.

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

And stops my mind from wandering

Where it will go

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door

And kept my mind from wandering

Where it will go

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong

I'm right

Where I belong I'm right

Where I belong

See the people standing there who disagree and never win

And wonder why they don't get in my door

I'm painting my room in a colorful way

And when my mind is wandering

There I will go

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong

I'm right

Where I belong I'm right

Where I belong

Silly people run around, they worry me

And never ask me why they don't get past my door

I'm taking the time for a number of things

That weren't important yesterday

And I still go

Fixing a hole where the rain gets in

Stops my mind from wandering

Where it will go

Then it was the turn of 'She's leaving home'.

Wednesday morning at five o'clock

as the day begins

Silently closing her bedroom door

Leaving the note that she hoped would say more

She goes downstairs to the kitchen

clutching her handkerchief

Quietly turning the back door key

Stepping outside she is free

She (we gave her most of our lives)

is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)

home (we gave her everything money could buy)

She's leaving home after living alone for

so many years (bye bye)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown

Picks up the letter that's lying there

Standing alone at the top of the stairs

She breaks down and cries to her husband

Daddy our baby's gone

Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly

How could she do this to me

"It's very sweet, but the lyrics are very sad…" said Sev. "They talk about all kinds of topics."

"Yes, here they already left the songs for teenagers, they matured," Peter said.

She (We never thought of ourselves)

is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)

home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)

She's leaving home after living alone for

so many years (bye bye)

Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away

Waiting to keep the appointment she made

Meeting a man from the motor trade

She (what did we do that was wrong)

is having (we didn't know it was wrong)

fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

Something inside that was always denied for

so many years (bye bye)

She's leaving home (bye bye)

It started 'Within you without you'.

"Wow… How strange."

"I have already told you before, they hallucinated and channeled it creating music. Listen to the lyrics."

We were talking, about the space between us all

And the people, who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion

Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late, when they pass away.

We were talking, about the love we all could share, when we find it

To try our best to hold it there with our love

With our love we could save the world, if they only knew.

Try to realize it's all within yourself

No-one else can make you change

And to see you're really only very small,

And life flows on within you and without you.

We were talking, about the love that's gone so cold and the people,

Who gain the world and lose their soul

They don't know, they can't see

are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind,

Is waiting there

And the time will come when you see

we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

"It's the same feeling of 'Across the Universe'," Sev commented.

"It is inspired by oriental philosophy," Peter explained. "At that time they traveled to India, that's why the exotic instruments and the theme. But you don't need to get high to feel it, how lucky you are."

It was the turn of 'When I'm sixty-four'.

When I get older losing my hair,

Many years from now.

Will you still be sending me a valentine

Birthday greetings bottle of wine.

If I'd been out till quarter to three

Would you lock the door,

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

When I'm sixty-four.

You'll be older too,

And if you say the word,

I could stay with you.

I could be handy, mending a fuse

When your lights have gone.

You can knit a sweater by the fireside

Sunday mornings go for a ride,

Doing the garden, digging the weeds,

Who could ask for more

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

When I'm sixty-four.

Every summer we can rent a cottage,

In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear

We shall scrimp and save

Grandchildren on your knee

Vera Chuck and Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,

Stating point of view

Indicate precisely what you mean to say

Yours sincerely, wasting away

Give me your answer, fill in a form

Mine for evermore

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

When I'm sixty-four.

"This is very tender and funny," Sev said.

"Peter, if you play the whole record we'll never have dinner," Violet said, laughing.

"Do you see, Sev? Long live, forever," Lily whispered to him.

I wish... he thought.

"Come on, the last track," said Peter. "'A day in the life'."

Dub the mic on the piano quite low this

Just keeping on the maracas, you know

You know those old pianos

Ok, we're on

Sugarplum fairy, sugarplum fairy

I read the news today, oh boy

About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad

Well, I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before

Nobody was really sure if he was from the

House of Lords

I saw a film today, oh boy

The English Army has just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

But I just had to look

Having read the book

I'd love to turn you on

Five, six, seven, eight, nine

Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen

Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen

Twenty

Woke up, fell out of bed

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup

And looking up I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in seconds flat

Made my way upstairs and had a smoke

And everybody spoke and I went into a dream

O shit

I read the news today, oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now thy know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

I'd love to turn you

See the worst thing about doing this

Doing something like this

Is I think that at first people sort of are a bit suspicious

You know, come on, what up you are to?

Sev thought, Wow, what harsh lyrics, like yesterday's Queen's... and it's very strange, it changes all the time... tremendous ending.

The next one that played was 'The fool on the hill'.

Day after day

Alone on a hill

The man with the foolish grin

Is keeping perfectly still

But nobody wants to know him

They can see that he's just a fool

And he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning 'round

Well on the way

Head in a cloud

The man of a thousand voices

Talking perfectly loud

But nobody ever hears him

Or the sound he appears to make

And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning 'round

And nobody seems to like him

They can tell what he wants to do

And he never shows his feelings

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning 'round, oh oh oh,

'round 'round 'round 'round

He never listen to them

He knows that they're the fools

They don't like him

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning 'round

Oh, 'round 'round 'round 'round, oh

Then 'Hey Jude' sounded.

Hey Jude, don't make it bad.

Take a sad song and make it better.

Remember to let her into your heart,

Then you can start to make it better.

Hey Jude, don't be afraid.

You were made to go out and get her.

The minute you let her under your skin,

Then you begin to make it better.

And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain,

Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.

For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool

By making his world a little colder.

Hey Jude, don't let me down.

You have found her, now go and get her.

Remember to let her into your heart,

Then you can start to make it better.

So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin,

You're waiting for someone to perform with.

And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do,

The movement you need is on your shoulder.

Hey Jude, don't make it bad.

Take a sad song and make it better.

Remember to let her under your skin,

Then you'll begin to make it

Better better better better better better, oh.

Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Jude...

And then 'Revolution'.

You say you want a revolution

Well, you know

We all want to change the world

You tell me that it's evolution

Well, you know

We all want to change the world

But when you talk about destruction

Don't you know that you can count me out

Don't you know it's gonna be all right

all right, all right

You say you got a real solution

Well, you know

We'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution

Well, you know

We're doing what we can

But when you want money

for people with minds that hate

All I can tell is brother you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be all right

all right, all right

Ah,ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...

You say you'll change the constitution

Well, you know

We all want to change your head

You tell me it's the institution

Well, you know

You better free you mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao

You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

Don't you know it's gonna be all right

all right, all right

all right, all right, all right

Then 'Back in the USSR' sounded.

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC

Didn't get to bed last night

On the way the paper bag was on my knee

Man I had a dreadful flight

I'm back in the USSR

You don't know how lucky you are boy

Back in the USSR

"The Soviet Union, Severus, which we were talking about the other afternoon," Eileen told him.

They have become more rockers… Sev thought.

Been away so long I hardly knew the place

Gee it's good to be back home

Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case

Honey disconnect the phone

I'm back in the USSR

You don't know how lucky you are boy

Back in the US, Back in the US

Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out

They leave the west behind

And Moscow girls make me sing and shout

That Georgia's always on my mind

(Oh come on!)

I'm back in the USSR

You don't know how lucky you are boy

Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out

They leave the west behind

And Moscow girls make me sing and shout

That Georgia's always on my mind

Show me round your snow peaked mountains way down south

Take me to your daddy's farm

Let me hear your balalaika's ringing out

Come and keep your comrade warm

I'm back in the USSR

You don't know how lucky you are boy

Back in the USSR

It was the turn of 'Get back'.

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner

But he knew it couldn't last

Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona

For some California grass

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, Jojo

Go home

"This one who sings is Lennon, the true leader of the band," said Peter. "He is a genius, one of whom comes out every hundred years. He continues with his solo career, and I also have all his records."

Get back, get back

Back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Back to where you once belonged

Get back, Jo

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman

But she was another man

All the girls around her say she's got it coming

But she gets it while she can

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, Loretta

Go home

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Oooh...

Get back, Loretta

Your mama's waiting for you

Wearing her high-heel shoes

And her low-neck sweater

Get back home, Loretta

Get back, get back

Get back to where you once belonged

Get back, get back

Get back

Oh, yeah

Then he played 'Don't let me down'.

Don't let me down

Hey, don't let me down

Don't let me down

Nobody ever loved me like she does

Oh she does, yes she does

And if somebody loved me like she do me

Oh she do me, you she does

Don't let me down

Hey, don't let me down

Don't let me down

I'm in love for the first time

Don't you know it's gonna last

It's a love that lasts forever

It's a love that had no past

Lily and Sev looked into each other's eyes, in silence…

Don't let me down

Hey, don't let me down

Don't let me down

And from the first time that she really done me

Oh she done me, she done me good

I guess nobody ever really done me

Oh she done me, she done me good

Don't let me down

Hey, don't let me down

Don't let me down

I'm in love for the first time

Don't you know it's gonna last

It's a love that lasts forever

It's a love that had no past

Don't let me down

Hey, don't let me down

Don't let me down

Hey hey ah

Don't let me down

'The ballad of John and Yoko' came on, Peter explained, "This song talks about John Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono, a Japanese artist who became his second wife, and apparently it was one of the reasons why the band ended up separating, as it caused dissensions between them."

"Oh... well, very badly done... what a pity," Sev said.

Standing in the dock at Southampton

Trying to get to Holland or France.

The man in the mac said you've got to go back,

You know they didn't even give us a chance.

Christ! You know it ain't easy,

You know how hard it can be.

The way things are going,

They're going to crucify me.

Finally made the plane into Paris,

Honeymooning down by the Seine.

Peter Brown called to say,

You can make it OK,

You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain.

Christ! You know it ain't easy,

You know how hard it can be.

The way things are going,

They're going to crucify me.

Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton,

Talking in our beds for a week.

The newspapers said, say what're you doing in bed,

I said we're only trying to get us some peace.

Christ! You know it ain't easy,

You know how hard it can be.

The way things are going,

They're going to crucify me.

Saving up your money for a rainy day,

Giving all your clothes to charity.

Last night the wife said,

Oh boy, when you're dead you don't take nothing with you but our soul

Think!

Made a lightning trip to Vienna,

Eating choc'late cake in a bag.

The newspapers said,

She's gone to his head,

They look just like two Gurus in a drag.

Christ! You know it ain't easy,

You know how hard it can be.

The way things are going,

They're going to crucify me.

Caught the early plane back to London,

Fifty acorns tied in a sack.

The men form the press said me wish you success,

It's good to have the both of you back.

Christ! You know it ain't easy,

You know how hard it can be.

The way things are going,

They're going to crucify me.

Next it was the turn of 'Old brown shoe'.

I want a love that's right

But right is only half of what's wrong

I want a short haired girl

Who sometimes wears it twice as long

Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe

Baby, I'm in love with you

I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now

I'm telling you

You know you pick me up

From where some try to drag me down

And when I see your smile

Replace every thoughtless frown

Got me escaping from this zoo

Baby, I'm in love with you

I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now

When I'm with you

If I grow up I'll be a singer

Wearing rings on every finger

Not worrying what they or you say

I'll live and love and maybe someday

Who knows, baby, you may comfort me

I may appear to be imperfect

My love is something you can't reject

I'm changing faster than the weather

If you and me should be together

Who knows, baby, you may comfort me

I want that love of yours

To miss that love is something I'd hate

I'll make an early start

I'm making sure that I'm not late

For you sweet top lip I'm in the queue

Baby, I'm in love with you

I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now

When I'm with you

I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now

When I'm with you

Peter introduced them to 'Here comes the sun', "This song is one of the few not composed by the Lennon-McCartney duo, but by the guitarist, George Harrison, and it's a real gem, it's a pity they didn't let him compose more, who knows how many good songs will have been lost due to it."

Here comes the sun

And I say it's all right

Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter

Little darlin' it feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun

And I say it's all right

It is luminous like the sun of which it speaks, Sev thought.

Little darlin' the smiles returning to their faces

Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun

And I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darlin' I feel the ice is slowly meltin'

Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been clear

Here come the sun

Here comes the sun

And I say it's all right

Here come the sun

Here comes the sun

It's all right, it's all right

Then it played 'Come together'.

"Lennon singing again," said Peter.

Here come old flat top he come

Grooving up slowly he got

Joo joo eyeball he one

Holy roller he got

Hair down to his knee

Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got

Toe jam football he got

Monkey finger he shoot

Coca cola he say

I know you, you know me

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

Come together right now over me

Sev and Lily gave each other an inviting look…

He bag production he got

Walrus gumboot he got

Ono sideboard he one

Spinal cracker he got

Feet down below his knee

Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease

Come together right now over me

He roller coaster he got

Early warning he got

Muddy water he one

Mojo filter he say

One and one and one is three

Got to be good-looking 'cos he's so hard to see

Come together right now over me

Come together

It was the turn of 'Something'.

Something in the way she moves

Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile she knows

That I don't need no other lover

Something in her style that shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around and it may show

I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows

And all I have to do is think of her

Something in the things she shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

And then 'Octopuss garden'.

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus' garden in the shade

He'd let us in, knows where we've been

In his octopus' garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and see

An octopus' garden with me

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus' garden in the shade.

We would be warm below the storm

In our little hideaway beneath the waves

Resting our head on the sea bed

In an octopus' garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around

because we know we can't be found

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus' garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about

The coral that lies beneath the waves

(Lies beneath the ocean waves)

Oh what joy for every girl and boy

Knowing they're happy and they're safe

(Happy and they're safe)

We would be so happy you and me

No one there to tell us what to do

I'd like to be under the sea

In an octopus' garden with you

In an octopus' garden with you.

"How funny," Sev said.

Then it played 'Let it be'.

When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of Wisdom, let it be.

And in my hour of darkness

She is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be.

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people

Living in the world agree

There will be an answer, let it be.

For though they may be parted there is

Still a chance that they will see

There will be answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be. Yeah

There will be an answer, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy,

There is still a light that shines on me,

Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.

I wake up to the sound of music

Mother Mary come to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be,

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

Then 'The long and winding road'.

The long and winding road that leads to your door,

Will never disappear,

I've seen that road before it always leads me here,

Leads me to your door.

The wild and windy night the rain washed away,

Has left a pool of tears crying for the day.

Why leave me standing here? Let me know the way

Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried

Anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried, but

Still they lead me back to the long and winding road

You left me standing here a long, long time ago

Don't leave me waiting here, lead me to your door

Da, da, da, da

Lily cried thinking of all the years that Sev must have felt exactly like this… about her…

"Come on, now I'm in," he whispered in her ear.

"The next one, dedicated especially for you, I've left it for last," Peter said to Sev. "I won't tell you the title, this is 'La Marseillaise', the hymn of the French Revolution."

France, the country of the Revolution and love… Sev thought.

Love, love, love

There's nothing you can do that can't be done

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game

It's easy

Nothing you can make that can't be made

No one you can save that can't be saved

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time

It's easy

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

Love, love, love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

There's nothing you can know that isn't known

Nothing you can see that isn't shown

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be

It's easy

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

All you need is love

(All together, now)

All you need is love

(Everybody)

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

Yesterday

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah

They all hummed the chorus, Sev too.

"You sing so well, Sev," Violet told him.

"It's true, you would be a great musician," Peter said.

Sev was dying of embarrassment.