"Things We Said Today" is a song by The Beatles and credited to Lennon & McCartney. It was composed for the film A Hard Day's Night and was the B-side of the "A Hard Day's Night" single in the UK.
The song is one of three main compositions (along with "And I Love Her" and "Can't Buy Me Love") that Paul McCartney wrote for The Beatle's film. Recorded in advance of film production for lip-synching reasons, "Things We Said Today" has a reverse nostalgia premise. Paul McCartney: I wrote this on acoustic. It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia. Well remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future.
McCartney was particularly satisfied with his chord change, F major to B flat majorinstead of the more obvious F minorwhich first occurs beneath "wishing you weren't so far away" in the song. John Lennon accentuates.
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