It all started with a Yellow Submarine painting trails of colors across my vision

And it morphed into sounds swirling into my ears and into my mind

I spent that summer with Paul McCartney whispering in one ear and John Lennon whispering into the other

You sat across from me, influencing me far more than you would ever realize

You pointed to its tracks, bold on a background of sunsets

It should've been dust after all those turns across the circle of pink

My favorite band and favorite songs came from you and that summer with The Beatles Love

I Am the Walrus became the song that traveled with me from that jungle of a porch to my daily singing performances in the shower

I Want to Hold Your hand became a comfort song after you left me

Help! became my musical performance with artists I loved in front of people who I hoped would come to love us

I wished you would've been one of those people

Blackbird and Yesterday became something that both drained me emotionally and set my soul on fire

Lady Madonna became a smile on my face despite it's unnerving lyrics

Come Together became what I desired for us

Back in the U.S.S.R. became the connection to you

I rewind the image of you singing in my mind as often as you rewound the song

But maybe that's why it also became the song I can't listen to anymore

Hey Jude became my anthem for the opening night of my shows

All You Need is Love was all I needed from you

But what I feared I would never get back

When I went to see the show

I was thrilled and jumping over the moon and into the Strawberry Fields

Ready to see my favorite music come to life

And when Lucy was in the sky with diamonds my mouth dropped

I turned to the side half expecting you to be next to me

Eleanor Rigby became the woman by my side through pain and through my sessions with a counselor

I wanted you by my side

I still want you here

I will always love The Beatles

and I will always love you

I will never forget our summer with The Beatles Love