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Bob Dylan's music - (the acoustic
Another Side Of Bob Dylan was his most recent album) -
directed John towards a more intense and personal style of
writing. He began to write songs in which his state of mind
became the immediate starting point. In the first lines of
'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away', the image of John
standing facing a wall with his head in his hands was
probably a perfect description of how he felt when he was
writing.
The song is about a relationship
that has gone wrong and John's hidden feelings for a girl he
has lost. Tony Bramwell suggests that it was written for
Brian Epstein, warning him to keep his homosexual
relationships (which, at the time, were illegal in Britain)
from public view. It was also rumoured that it referred to a
secret affair John was having.
Written by John at Kenwood, it was
used in the film during a scene in which British actress
Eleanor Bron visited the group in their terraced house to
try and retrieve the missing ring.
John's childhood friend, Pete
Shotton, was with him at Kenwood and remembered that in the
original version he had sung that he felt 'two foot tall'.
However when he sang it to Paul, he mistakenly sang 'two
foot small', which Paul liked better and so it was kept.
Shotton went to the recording on February 18, 1965, and
added some 'heys' to the chorus.
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