Help Yourself: Would You

"Blue Nile basically inspired this for me, this song, musically anyway. The chords that were played in Blue Nile and the way they were put together were something that I'd had always done at home…very similar style, very strange bizarre chords that seemed to match and not always go together but I had these chords for years and I said to Anthony Moore…I said, 'Listen I've got these chords and I want to use them but I don't know how or where' and he said, 'Well, I've got these words and I want to use them but I don't know how or where' and I was able to write, record, and finish the song within a day or two. The reason why that lyrically it appealed to me was because at that point in time, I mean, I'd been going through a lot of different emotions and feelings over the past year, year and a half, dealing with this album and relationships and just friends and this and that and lyrically speaking, you know, when I first heard Anthony read this to me, 'Would you rather the feeling of no feeling at all,' you know, the feeling of being numb, it was pretty much how I felt quite often while trying to put this whole thing together and then I considered the fact that wouldn't it be nice to be able to not have pressures in life, to be able to just float through life and although it's simplistic in what it says, it does tell a story of how people think or how things affect you."
- Julian Lennon on "Would You"

Would You

J. Lennon/A. Moore

The Lyrics