i want to hold your hand

i've been thinking long and hard about "i want to hold your hand" being about the cold war. cat had wanted to know my analysis. i've got to say that it has been difficult. here is what i have:

the first line sets us up. "yeah you've, got that something, i think you'll understand". the guy is saying here "hey, baby, you have something i want and you know what it is. in case you don't, i'll explain it to you, then you'll understand"
the next line, "when i say that something" (i'm explaining it to you now) "i want to hold your hand, i want to hold your hand, i want to hold your hand". on the first "hand" the note goes up denoting a high emotional factor here. the guy is ready, hot to trot so to speak. on the second "hand" the notes stairstep down. this can only be an indication of which direction the guy wants to go...down...on the girl. the "i want to hold your hand" is repeated again. third times the charm!

the third line goes on to say "oh please, say to me, you'll let me be your man". dude really wants it. "and please say to me, you'll let me hold your hand, now let me hold your hand, i want to hold your hand" he's trying the hard-sell, playing on the girl's emotions, again stating the desire three times. he's trying a bit too hard and may be in danger of losing control of the situation. so he goes with a different tack...

"and when i touch you i feel happy inside" he's gentle now, no longer aggressive or insistive, appealing (hopefully) to the girls emotional feelings as well. "it's such a feeling that my love, i can't hide, i can't hide, i can't hide!" his passion swells and bursts forth, no longer kept beneath the surface, now totally out for all to see.

the girl has done one of several things by now: she slaps him and demands to be taken home, she screams and runs off, she is swept up by the passionate plea and they get it on. i'm betting that they get it on, for the very last word of the song "hand" is shaking with emotion, with spent energy, the spent energy of lust.

"something" and "hand" are, of course, euphenisms for the vagina. "love" represents the penis. pretty straightforward stuff here. so, no cold war connection. cold shower, maybe, no cold war.