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I have done a post or two about the Beatles here, here and here before: one of my most felicitous Internet discoveries was the <Beatles Complete on Ukelele> back when their entire archive was free, with new songs appearing more or less weekly over a period of 2 years. And then we lost free download access. The website is still there, but it's not set up for downloading the files for free any longer.
In digging around for this post/searching to see which - if any- Beatles songs had Open/Close in their titles, I ran across another cool Beatles resource that allows you to search their lyrics - in this case necessary if I wanted to continue to persue the Beatles idea, because from among the (officially) 213 songs they recorded, surprisingly not one has either Open or Close in the title.
I was thinking: surely... open heart ... open mind and if not closed heart/mind how about something along the lines of "close to me".
That said, the two words of our current theme show up multiple times in their lyrics. Enough of them that I'll have to pick and choose from among them.
beatlesagain.com lists 4 for "open" and 10 for "close". Across the Universe has open ears. Dear Prudence and Tell Me What You See also include open eyes and Help has open doors.
Looks like the eyes have it. All My Loving has "close your eyes"; Good Night has "I'll close [my eyes]"; Think For Yourself has "if we close our eyes"; Strawberry Fields of course has "living is easy with eyes closed". Five are about close as in near: Do You Want To Know a Secret has "Closer"; Besame Mucho has "Close to me"; Glass Onion has "close as can be"; Twist and Shout has "twist a little closer" and Words of Love has "hold me close".
Good Morning, Good Morning is an outlier with "everything is closed".
Nothin' about hearts open or closed nor about opening your mind. Nothing particularly romantic/mushy here either.
Pat Lewis & Joe Coghlan/Tell Me What You See:
Beatles out-take: Across the Universe
Alanis Morissette: Dear Prudence (and a story about its inception)
