The Song We Were Singing
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| "The Song We Were Singing" | |
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| Song by Paul McCartney | |
| from the album Flaming Pie | |
| Released | 5 May 1997 |
| Studio | Hogg Hill Mill, Icklesham |
| Length | 3:54 |
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| Songwriter | McCartney |
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"The Song We Were Singing" is a song by the English musician and former Beatle Paul McCartney, released as the opening track on his 1997 album Flaming Pie.[1]
McCartney wrote "The Song We Were Singing" in Jamaica in early January 1995.[2] It was the first song on Flaming Pie, and McCartney and Jeff Lynne, who plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard, and sings a harmony vocal, with McCartney performing everything else on the track.[2] As McCartney stated on the writing of the song:was recorded at Hogg Hill Mill in Icklesham.[3]
I was remembering the sixties; sitting around late at night dossing, smoking pipes, drinking wine... jawing, talking about the cosmic solution. It was what we were all doing... all that 'what about... wow!' It's that time in your life when you got a chance for all that.
— Paul McCartney, in Mark Lewisohn and Geoff Baker, Flaming Pie, Flaming Pie liner notes[2]
Composition and lyrics
"The Song We Were Singing" is a waltz track[1] in a style similar to the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" and Rubber Soul, a 1965 album by the Beatles.[3] According to author John Blaney: "For McCartney, 'The Song We Were SInging' was an evocation of times spent in the 1960s relaxing with friends. A nostalgic view of that swinging decade, when anything seemed possible, his lyric suggests that there was a longing for something more lasting than fame and wealth."[4]
