I Shoulda Known Better

[Intro]

This is Eric Andersen up here again

I'm Phil, he's Don

Um, I'd like, I wanted to bring him up here to do one thing

Which is very much out of character with this whole program

What's that?

It's a song—

Since this is a songwriter's hoot

I'd like to do a song by the two most successful songwriters in the world

Paul McCartney and John Lennon

No rel—

Okay, no relation

[Verse 1]

So I should have known better with a girl like you

That I would love everything that you do

And I do, hey hey hey, and I do

[Verse 2]

So I never realized what a kiss could be

This could only happen to me

Can't you see, can't you see?

[Chorus]

That when I tell you that I love you, oh

You're gonna say you love me too, oh

And when I ask you to be mine

You're gonna say you love me too

[Verse 3]

So, I should have realized a lot of things before

If this is love you've gotta give me more

Give me more, hey hey hey, give me more

[Chorus]

And when I tell you that I love you, oh

You're gonna say you love me too, oh

And when I ask you to be mine

You're gonna say you love me too

[Verse 4]

So, I should have realized a lot of things before

If this is love you've gotta give me more

Give me more, hey hey hey, give me more

[Outro]

I wanted to do that, you know

For the main reason was that

To make a point that it's all not nonsense

That I think, you know, that

In all of music today, you know

What's going on in folk music

I think the Beatles are the most exciting thing

Really, musically going on

And that's what I'd like to make a point about writing topical songs

That I always try to do that

When I'm writing songs

Like the first song I did, the "That's What I Want to Hear"

Is a very pop-oriented melody

That's why we did it

To show you that pop-oriented songs aren't necessarily bad

That's pretty exciting music