phrase "There's a Place" from the soundtrack's song "There's a Place for Us". The songs diverged in that while "There's a Place for Us" refers to a place "round the back of the stairs for a kiss and a cuddle", the Beatles' song refers to "the mind". Composition "There's a Place" is in the key of E major and in 4/4 time. Unusually short for the Beatles, the song features only one bridge. Everett writes that it borrows aspects from the band's earlier songs. For example, he writes it takes "two-bar groupings that embellish I with an alternating IV" from the chorus of "Love Me Do" and adds it to the song's first verse. From "Please Please Me", it uses the same octave spanning lines of George Harrison on guitar and Lennon on harmonica. The song's opening bass note, hitting a natural B, is "nearly identical" to that of "Please Please Me". Like many of the band's early singles, the song features a harmonica, playing with the vocals of the bridge like is heard on "Ask Me Why". Lennon and McCartney sing the song as a two-part harmony in fourths and fifths, with Lennon singing the low part and McCartney the high. McCartney's high vocal stops at the end of the first and third verses, leaving Lennon momentarily alone on lead vocal, adding what musicologist Alan W. Pollack calls "trill-like ornaments". George Harrison provides a backing vocal, singing with McCartney while Lennon sings the lead during the variant verse following the first verse. The song's lyrics are written in the form of a first-person narrative. The singer declares his self-sufficiency, being able to transcend loneliness by retreating into his mind. Rather than having different verses, the lyrics repeat the verse line, serving to emphasize the song's theme. Pollack describes the song as "paradoxically quite tense", with the confident message of the lyrics playing against the "hard-hitting, unique sonority of the E-Major seventh chord". Everett similarly describes the song as "an unusual mix of happiness and melancholia". Riley writes that its fadeout provides a liberating effect through its major key, suggesting the singer has achieved respite, though the "rhythmic tension" hints at "an uneasiness below the surface that remains unresolved". Recording The Beatles recorded most of their debut LP Please Please Me on 11 February 1963, split across three sessions in twelve hours and forty-five minutes. Recorded in EMI's Studio Two,