Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

These lines are from the Beatles’ song “Michelle,” credited to Lennon–McCartney and released on the 1965 album *Rubber Soul*. Paul McCartney has described the song’s origins in a party-piece he used to perform, singing mock-French phrases over a guitar figure to amuse friends; the idea later developed into a finished composition. The quoted couplet appears in the English-language bridge, contrasting with the song’s French refrain (“Michelle, ma belle…”). In the mid-1960s, the Beatles were expanding beyond straightforward pop love songs into more stylistically varied, carefully crafted writing, and “Michelle” became one of their best-known romantic ballads.

The couplet compresses intimacy and impending absence into a simple, tender exchange. “Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you” evokes trust and immediacy—an invitation to surrender to the present moment. “Tomorrow I’ll miss you” introduces time’s pressure: affection is heightened precisely because separation is expected. The rhyme and plain diction give the sentiment a lullaby-like inevitability, suggesting that love is both comfort and vulnerability. Within “Michelle,” the line also functions as a pivot from the song’s dreamy, cosmopolitan French coloration to a direct emotional statement, grounding the romance in a universal fear of distance and loss.