From Wikipedia:
"McCartney wrote the song in May 1964 while cruising the Caribbean aboard a yacht called Happy Days with his then-girlfriend Jane Asher. Music critic Ian MacDonald said, "The sombre lyric—provoked by the frustrating interruptions of a relationship between two career people—matches the lowering gloom of the music.""Things We Said Today" has a reverse nostalgia premise. McCartney said, "I wrote this on acoustic. It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia. We’ll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future."
Derailing my own thread, when I read that line about where Paul McCartney was located, I flashed back to Gary Hart's infamous yacht, Monkey Business. I'm glad you happened by this thread and that you enjoyed recalling "Things We Said Today". Realizing the song was from 1964, but totally new to me, it's taken 50 years off my age and I feel like I'm a spry 23 again! :)
Ain't Free Republic a great place.