Something

Something is a song by the English rock band The Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road.

Lyrics
Something in the way she moves

Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile she knows

That I don't need no other lover

Something in her style that shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around, now it may show

I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows

And all I have to do is think of her

Something in the things she shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

History
Perhaps George Harrison’s finest moment on the Abbey Road album, Something was one of the record’s undisputed highlights and showed him finally leaving the songwriting shadow of Lennon and McCartney. Something was written during the 1968 sessions for The Beatles (White Album), though it wasn’t finished until the following year. A demo version of Something, recorded by Harrison on February 25, 1969, his 26th birthday, was included on Anthology 3. It was also remixed and reissued on some formats of the 50th anniversary version of Abbey Road.

Although originally offered to Jackie Lomax, the guitar-and-vocals demo was given to Joe Cocker. Cocker’s version was recorded before The Beatles’, but not released until November 1969. In her autobiography Wonderful Tonight, Harrison’s former wife Pattie Boyd claimed the song was written about her. Harrison downplayed the sentiment, saying it was, in fact, written with Ray Charles in mind. The song took its first line from the James Taylor song ‘Something In The Way She Moves’.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney both rated the song highly. Lennon said, “I think that’s about the best track on the album, actually,” while McCartney said “For me I think it’s the best he’s written.” Something has been recorded by a range of performers, including Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, James Brown and Smokey Robinson. It has become the second-most covered Beatles song after Yesterday. Sinatra called it “the greatest love song ever written,” and made it a fixture of his live set.