<P> McCartney said , `` I wanted ( the medley ) to end with a little meaningful couplet , so I followed the Bard and wrote a couplet . '' In his 1980 interview with Playboy , John Lennon acknowledged McCartney 's authorship by saying , `` That 's Paul again ... He had a line in it , ' And in the end , the love you get is equal to the love you give , ' which is a very cosmic , philosophical line . Which again proves that if he wants to , he can think . '' Lennon misquoted the line ; the actual words are , `` And in the end , the love you take is equal to the love you make . '' </P>
<P> McCartney said , `` I wanted ( the medley ) to end with a little meaningful couplet , so I followed the Bard and wrote a couplet . '' In his 1980 interview with Playboy , John Lennon acknowledged McCartney 's authorship by saying , `` That 's Paul again ... He had a line in it , ' And in the end , the love you get is equal to the love you give , ' which is a very cosmic , philosophical line . Which again proves that if he wants to , he can think . '' Lennon misquoted the line ; the actual words are , `` And in the end , the love you take is equal to the love you make . '' </P>
who wrote the love you take is equal to the love you make
who wrote the love you take is equal to the love you make
McCartney
McCartney