Perhaps we could all use a little help from our friends right about now. And if our friends aren't willing to help, than perhaps a few songs by The Beatles will.

As I muse along here and there about the political madness befalling us all, I find that a bit of The Fab Four helps me 'Let it Be', as well as just say 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' about the whole goddamn mess.

That's right. A bit of harmony and lyrical linguistics by John, Paul, George and Ringo can calm much of the angry and bitter dread more than a bit, a tad, and even a smidge more than any stash of drugs, bottles of alcohol or dose of Breaking Bad can.

It's an interesting and wonderful thing, really.

In my life, songs by the Liverpool band has helped me cope, see, enjoy, discover, grieve, celebrate and understand the perils and joys of the world with more clarity, enjoyment and abandonment; as well as help keep my sanity rather intact.

And this eccentric election cycle is no different.

Like many of you, I have become oddly and overly obsessed with reading and writing about political apathy, a discouraging country's perils, and the absolute ignorance, divisiveness and misconceptions regarding the issues I care about most. 

But once again, The Beatles have come to my rescue.

Their near eerie-timeless lyrics not only helps put the psychedelic times we are experiencing now in perspective; but also invites my intellect and spirit to wander and wonder around more than a poll, soundbite or a debate could ever possibly surmise.

I recall the days of my yearned-for-youth when my older siblings decorated the living room with album covers while they danced, cried, got heavy, got stoned and sang along to 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Yesterday'.

Yesterday . . .  the song that I did not understand at all as a babe, but today feel full-well the breadth, unsubtle messages and sentimental melancholy in perhaps far too many ways than I should.

Other songs like 'Blackbird', 'Golden Slumbers' and 'I've Just Seen a Face' soothes my every sensibility; causes me to pause, and once again propels me to feel the magic that was once childhood and youth in all of its innocence, naiveté and lustrous frivolity I once basked in it seems more than a hundred years ago.

Their songs are at once philosophical, dark, engaging, telling, fortuitous, simple, prophetic and sometimes just so bleeding beautiful that you just want to smile, dance and say to someone that you "want to hold their hand." 

Remember those days?

I do.

The following are some songs that both define this election, as well as some that clearly don't.

Or . . .  like a child of the 1960's and 70's, one can always wish or imagine that they might describe our future.

Songs that Define this Election

Baby You're a Rich Man

I'm So Tired

Nowhere Man

You Never Give me Your Money

Happiness is a Warm Gun

I'm Looking Trough You

Help

I'll Cry Instead

Cry Baby Cry

Day Tripper

I Just Don't Understand

Tell me Why

Yesterday

Everybody's Got something to Hide except for Me and my Monkey

Misery  

Please, Please Me

Mean Mr. Mustard

It's All Too Much

The Long and Winding Road

Shout

For No One

Run For Your Life

Chains  

A Hard Day's Night

I Should have Known Better

Hey Bulldog 

You've Got to Hide your Love Away

When I'm Sixty-Four

Tomorrow Never Knows

You Really Got a Hold on Me

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry

Taxman

Bad Boy

I'm a Loser

The Fool on the Hill

Being the Benefit of Mr. Kite

Not a Second Time

If I Needed Someone   

Tell me Why

Things we said Today

You've Got to Hide your Love Away

It's All Too Much

I'm Down 

Helter Skelter     

Songs we Wish would Define this Election 

Come Together

Getting Better 

I Feel Fine  

We Can Work it Out

Don't Pass me By

All Together Now

Can't Buy me Love

All you Need is Love

I'm Happy Just to Dance with You

Let it Be

Think for Yourself

Why Don't we Do it in the Road

From Me to You

Here Comes the Sun

Watching Rainbows

I've Just Seen a Face

Till There was You

Do You Want to Know a Secret

Magical Mystery Tour

A Beginning    

Revolution

Act Naturally

Any Time at All   

Got to Get you Into my Life

Yes it Is

That Means A Lot

You Can't Do That

It Won't be Long

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

I'll Be Back

Hello Goodbye   

Tell Me What you See

Roll Over Beethoven

Slow Down

Strawberry Fields Forever

You Like me Too Much

Don't Ever Change

I'm Only Sleeping  

You Know my Name, Look up my Number

Fixing a Hole

Any Time at All

The Word

Because    

Two of Us

Yellow Submarine

Blackbird

Sexie Sadie

Wild Honey Pie

And Your Bird can Sing

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

I Don't Want to Spoil the Party     

I'll Keep You Satisfied  

One and One is Two

And I Love Her

Hey Jude   

Your Mother should Know

Words of Love

Across the Universe

It's Only Love

Michelle, my Belle

You Know what to Do

In My Life  

Her Majesty 

With a Little Help from my Friends  

Ticket to Ride

You Won't See Me

I Am the Walrus   

Notice that there are more songs in the second column than the first?

Imagine that. 

Please feel free to share what songs by The Beatles mean something special to you.

And if you don't mind, tell me why you may feel as deeply sentimental as I do . . .  just about now.