The Word

Say the word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me.
Say the word I'm thinking of,
Have you heard? The word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

In the beginning I misunderstood,
But now I've got it, the word is good.
Say the word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me.
Say the word I'm thinking of,
Have you heard? The word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

Ev'rywhere I go I hear it said,
In the good and the bad books that I have read.

Say the word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me.
Say the word I'm thinking of,
have you heard? The word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

Now that I know what I feel must be right,
I'm here to show evrybody the light.
Give the word a chance to say,
That the word is just the way.
It's the word I'm thinking of,
And you only word is "love."

It's so fine, it's sunshine,
It's the word "love."

Say the word, "love,"
Say the word, "love,"
Say the word, "love."

"The Word" is a song by the Beatles first released on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It has been cited as the first instance in which the Beatles began writing about love in more abstract terms, versus concrete girl/boy terms, a la "She Loves You", with preaching lyrics such as "The word is love" and "Say the word and you'll be free".