John Lennon Instagram – HEY JUDE. ‘Hey Jude’ is Paul’s. It’s one of his masterpieces. He said it was written about Julian, my child. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to visit me or Julian. I think it was just to see Julian to say ‘hi’ to him, because he’d been like an uncle, you know, he was always good with kids. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude’. But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it, Yoko’s just come into the picture, he’s saying ‘Hey Jude / Hey John’. I mean, so I’m sounding like one of those fans that’s writing things into it. But you can hear it as a song to me. Although it’s also a song about him and Franny Schwartz at the time, too. But you hear the lines ‘on your shoulder’ and all those things I always took personally because I was the one with a chip on my shoulder. And ‘go out and get her’ and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, ‘go ahead’. On a conscious level he didn’t want me to go ahead. Subconsciously the angel in him was saying, ‘bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner. 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 na na na na, na na na na Hey Jude