Paul McCartney can take credit for writing a lot of the best Beatles music but I think Eleanor Rigby is one of his finest works. The Beatles lyric to this song are short and repetitive but the image that they create are very clear. John Lennon has said that Paul wrote the first verse and he the rest. So this song is best described as a Lennon, McCartney collaboration, either way it has the same impact. The idea of loneliness is the theme to this song and the lyrics are like a short story exemplifying that. Eleanor Rigby was released on the 1966 album Revolver. The double string quartet in the song really creates a unique and powerful sound as you will see in the video attached. Here are the Beatles music lyrics to Eleanor Rigby:

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

(Chorus)All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

(Chorus Repeat

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

(Chorus Repeat)