The Best Beatles Song Titles for...
The Beatles were a big deal in the 1960s and have been a lot of things to a lot of different people since. Their songs and music still have a wide appeal and it turns out their song titles have a less well-known use: they’re perfect for describing different fatherhood milestones and scenarios.
It’s not exactly a
Magical Mystery Tour, but join me on this little experiment and let’s see if
you see Something New from these Beatles song titles.
Yesterday – A
melancholy ballad about the day before your kid started eating solid foods and
the scent profile of your house changed forever.
Here Comes the Sun
– A cheerful ditty for when the multi-day rainstorms (or snowstorm, ice storm,
etc) ends and the kids can go out of the house again.
Help! – Is there
any better song for the first one to 180 days of having a newborn?
Let it Be – The
wise and well-known anthem for husbands when their pregnant and very tired wife
falls asleep on their arm which is also now asleep.
Come Together – Song
for when you’re trying to encourage the kids to all work together and take care
of some task as a team.
I Should Have
Known Better - Song for when you fail at encouraging the kids to all work
together and take care of some task as a team.
Don’t Let Me Down
– The soundtrack for when you’re driving your wife to the hospital/birthing
center while she’s in labor and you’re praying the minivan doesn’t break down.
I Want to Hold
Your Hand – Anthem for crossing streets, parking lots, intersections, and riding
escalators with toddlers.
A Hard Day's Night –
The song you should play the morning after you’ve been up all night with a kid who
has croup.
Across the
Universe – For those introspective moments when you think back on a time
pre-kids and marvel at the space between now and then.
Cry Baby Cry – I’m
telling you, some Beatles song titles take no imagination to connect to
parenting.
Eight Days a Week –
The song for when someone asks a father with teenagers or lots of boys how often
you have to stock the refrigerator with groceries.
With a Little Help
from My Friends – Song title for when someone asks how I’m going to load all
the stuff we need to take with us on vacation.