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John wished, says Yoko, that the song might one day be a standard – performed, perhaps, at weddings. The sad irony of ‘Grow Old With Me’ need not be laboured. They hold the record in some place out of chronological time, eternally hopeful. Now they sit together in the closing stages of Milk And Honey, perfect companion pieces. These numbers were written for Double Fantasy, when John was on holiday in Bermuda and Yoko was in New York, recorded onto cassette, but then set aside for the next album. Yoko’s ‘Let Me Count The Ways’ and John’s ‘Grow Old With Me’ were inspired by the Victorian poets Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with whom the Lennons felt a deep affinity. For her part, Yoko complements his self-portraits beautifully, with reflections on doubt (‘O Sanity’), eroticism (‘Your Hands’) and the poignantly romantic ‘You’re The One’.Īt the very heart of Milk And Honey, however, are two extraordinary songs. Not for the first time in his work, John owns up to his own shortcomings as a husband, this time in ‘(Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess’, But the tropically mellow ‘ Borrowed Time’ suggest a man who is, in the last analysis, at peace with himself and enjoying his maturity. With ‘Let Me Count The Ways’, I played it first to him over the phone, when he was in Bermuda.
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We tried ‘Sleepless Night’, ‘O Sanity’ and ‘Let Me Count The Ways’ at the Double Fantasy sessions. John knew all my songs in Milk And Honey, except for ‘You’re The One’, which I wrote after John’s passing as a tribute to him. We recorded all the basic tracks for Double Fantasy and Milk And Honey. We should open our ears and welcome it.įor her part, his wife and artistic partner Yoko Ono has never regarded Milk And Honey as fundamentally separate from Double Fantasy: ‘We went into recording on August 4th 1980. We can only speculate how closely it would have resembled the album we know, but there is not the slightest doubt that Milk And Honey is true to Lennon’s spirit. We know that John was looking forward to a follow-up, to be called Milk And Honey, and that he believed he already had a lot of material. It fully deserves its place in the tradition of Double Fantasy or their early avant-garde releases or any of the towering songs their names are jointly engraved upon, from ‘ Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’ to ‘ Woman Is The Nigger Of The World’. And yet, Milk And Honey is a great John and Yoko record.