She swallows the two pills of aspirin she needs to feel less pain in her foot before she leaves her hotel room and arduously hops in the cab waiting for her. He might be highly stressed out at the moment. Hosting a show is a new experience for him, and The Beatles aren’t really what he’s used to sing, even less when the audience isn’t full of his fans. But he keeps challenging himself, and she loves to witness that. She just hopes he won’t take her surprise the wrong way.
She thought about telling him she’d come, knowing he really needed to have everything under control for this event, but she finally opted for a surprise. He has told her a few weeks ago he’d sing “(Just Like) Starting Over” for her, little he knew she was planning on a duet. For days, she woke up with the lyrics in her mind:
Our life together is so precious together,
We have grown – we have grown,
Although our love is still special,
Let’s take our chance and fly away somewhere alone,
And kept them spinning in her head until bedtime
Why don’t we take off alone,
Take a trip somewhere far, far away,
We’ll be together all alone again,
Like we used to in the early days,
Well, well, darling,
What better occasion than a tribute to John Lennon to celebrate their love for each other, their freedom to be together and to show the world the peace they’ve finally achieved in their complicated relationship?
It’ll be just like starting over – starting over…
Just Holding Hands 