"You're Going To Lose That Girl" seems to be a song about treating your girl right, and the dangers of negligence in that department. The deeper part was that, as you can see by the boys' indifference to it during the movie, Lennon was getting tired of writing pop songs. It was one of the many songs they felt they had to write to appease their audience. It went well with the angst-ridden "Ticket To Ride", which was yet another example of the Beatles' straying from tradition love songs to ones that about less superficial relationships. Gone were the "I Want To Hold Your Hand", as the Beatles began writing more about what they felt inside and saw going on around them than what the public was accustommed to. Luckily, they didn't change so fast that they lost their public following, which was growing with each day, because without their fans, the musical contributions the Beatles made couldn't have been distributed and picked apart by other growing artists like Brian Wilson. After Ringo's, um, 'interesting' rendition of "Act Naturally", the only other non-Beatles song on the album, came "It's Only Love", which includes the line "I get high when I see you go by/my oh my", and while that line may be a bit obvious, the entire song was subletly drug-induced, as the Beatles' dabblings started to be reflected in their music. Harrison had another track with "You Like Me Too Much", which, while still advanced for Harrison, wasn't up to the Lennon-McCartney standard. "Tell Me What You See" is another Lennon composition that seems to be laced with drugs, and is definetly an example of his experimentation with tempos and rhythms. McCartney took a shot at Hide Your Love's throne with "I've Just Seen A Face", which shows how much american culture he had absorbed. "Falling/yes I am falling/and she keeps calling/me back again." I can't figure out if it's drug induced, but he was certainly ahead of his time with incorporating country into a rock song, something that wouldn't be really clearly done until the Byrds in the seventies. The folk guitar and lyrics suggest that he, too, was beginning to understand folk music's potential as Lennon had.
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