Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
Get back to where you once belonged Sweet Loretta Modern thought she was a woman
Get back to where you once belonged Jojo met Loretta and they rent a little cottage
Get back to where you once belonged Sweet Loretta moved on searching for her passion
Get back to where you once belonged Getting back Loretta now whatcha think you're doin'
Oh get back! You get back -
Get back to where you once belonged 11/12/22 Clear and obvious copyright disclaimer:
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I do this thing where I send messages to my unconscious to get it to do the heavy lifting while I am asleep (somewhat like the shoemaker and his elves). It doesn't always work on the really hard stuff, but in some areas it is a perfect technique. That is how I wrote "Back Roads Rock" - I wanted to write a rock'n'roll song, which meant it had to be about cars and beer and girls - and youth - and it all sort of came tumbling out after a few days of throwing things at my dreams. Lately I have been irked by how incomplete the Beatles song "Get Back" is - it introduces two fairly interesting characters, Jojo and Loretta, and then abandons all semblance of narrative, leaving us hanging. Compare that to "Eleanor Rigby", which gives us the lonely old woman and the tired, grey pastor - and then unites them in the emptiness and finality of their wasted lives. Last night I apparently wrote the "missing" two verses of "Get Back," since they came to me rather suddenly as if without any effort. I was doing something else when I (as John, ha ha) came up with the first of them, which was fairly obvious.. The trouble is that it still did not close out the arc of the lyric. So, um, Paul had to come back - still in the spirit of his writing style during the Let It Be sessions - and write the fourth verse. The fifth verse is an accidental retrospective ad lib. It's not bad, and it makes me wonder why the hell they never did it. Actually, I know. George Martin would have told them to finish it, but he was not there. 
© Huw Powell
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