Editing Rubber Soul (section)

===="Wait"====
"[[Wait (Beatles song)|Wait]]" was a Lennon composition to which McCartney contributed a middle eight.{{sfn|Everett|2001|p=334}}{{sfn|Riley|2002|p=168}} Gould includes the song among a category of Beatles {{"'}}coming home' songs",{{sfn|Gould|2007|p=304}} while Riley pairs it with "[[It Won't Be Long]]" but adds that, relative to that 1963 song, in "Wait" "the lovers' reunion has more anxiety than euphoria goading the beat."{{sfn|Riley|2002|p=168}} The band completed the track on the final day of recording for the album, overdubbing tone-pedal lead guitar, percussion{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=68}} and a new vocal by McCartney onto the June 1965 rhythm track.{{sfn|Winn|2008|p=376}} MacDonald writes that, although Lennon and McCartney would most likely have viewed the subject matter as dated even in June, the group's performance gives the song the required "drive and character" for ''Rubber Soul'', particularly Starr's approach to the rhythm changes between its contrasting sections.{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=143}}