"Give Me Love" was a hit around the same time as Cat Stevens's "Morning Has Broken," a superficially similar hippie-dad prayer, yet I violently hated "Morning Has Broken," just hated it, despised the choked sobs and prissy whispers, still hate it, because it sounded to my ears (and might still sound, if I had the stomach to investigate) like a phony version of what "Give Me Love" does for real. All four Beatles were surrogate dads to Seventies kids, which partly why we fantasized about them so much, and if George was the dad who's perpetually disappointed in you, "Give Me Love" is a song that did and still does make me fantasize about what a world fathered and raised by George might look like. Yet it's the kind of song George distrusted--a song that could get people's hopes up, making promises he was scared he couldn't keep."