In My Life

In My Life is a song by the English rock band The Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul.

Lyrics
There are places I'll remember

All my life though some have changed

Some forever, not for better

Some have gone and some remain

All these places have their moments

With lovers and friends I still can recall

Some are dead and some are living

In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers

There is no one compares with you

And these memories lose their meaning

When I think of love as something new

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more

In my life I love you more

History
One of the highlights of the Rubber Soul album, In My Life was written mostly by John Lennon and started out as a nostalgic set of memories of Liverpool. Lennon regarded In My Life particularly highly. Citing it along, with Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am The Walrus and Help, as among his best. He first had the idea for the song in 1964, when journalist Kenneth Allsop asked Lennon why his songs were less revealing and challenging than his books. Musing on this, Lennon decided to take a nostalgic look at specific places and memories from his Liverpool past. In the same interview, Lennon described how the song’s early draft was significantly different from the final version. The original draft mentioned a list of Liverpool landmarks, including Penny Lane, the Abbey pub in Childwall, the Old Dutch café, and the Dockers’ Umbrella; the colloquial name for the Liverpool Overhead Railway, now demolished.