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Jane Asher's move to Bristol
continued to preoccupy Paul. It meant that she was no longer
readily at hand even though he was still living in her
family home in Wimpole Street. As a young working-class man
form Liverpool, he found it hard to come to terms with a
girl who put her career before romance.
He later admitted to Hunter Davies
that his whole existence so far revolved around living a
carefree bachelor's life. He hadn't treated women as most
people did. He'd always had a lot around him, even when he
had steady girlfriends. "I knew I was selfish," he said. "It
caused a few rows. Jane went off and I said, 'OK then.
Leave. 'I'll find someone else. It was shattering to be
without her. That was when I wrote 'I'm Looking Through
You'."
This was most most bitter song so
far. Rather than question his own attitudes (as he obviously
did later), Paul accuses his woman of changing and holds out
the thinly veiled threat of withdrawing his affection. Love
has a habit, he warns, of disappearing overnight.
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