Help Yourself: Help Yourself

"I believe it's absolutely true that if you want to get on in life then you really do have to help yourself and to push forward. John McCurry and I sat around thinking, 'Well, where are we going to go with this' and I'd already had part of the music there and then John came in and said, 'Alright, try this' and it was a back and forth thing and we didn't have any lyrics and John again had to, like everybody else I write with, had to disappear back to New York and I sat around writing and he'd sort of mentioned a couple of ideas and it came together in about two days. This was at a period where we'd pretty much finished the album and I asked Bob to come around because I thought we had something special here and I put the headphones on his head and said, 'Have a listen to this' and he knew I was completely nervous about this because John McCurry and I really liked this song and he knew I was particularly nervous about him listening to it for the first time and so I sat opposite him in the room and throughout the song he would be leaning forward shaking his head from side to side as if to say, 'What the hell is this? This is terrible' and so I’m going, 'Oh my God. This isn't going to go anywhere. How am I going to beat him on this one?' and he took the headphones off and he said, 'Listen, I'm only kidding. It's great. Let's go and take it in the studio and work on it' and that was that and everybody was happy after that."
- Julian Lennon on "Help Yourself"

Help Yourself

J. Lennon/J. McCurry

The Lyrics