Thursday, May 24, 2007
Paul McCartney Debuts Video on YouTube
NEW YORK - Paul McCartney snagged Natalie Portman to star in his new music video _ thanks to his fashion designer-daughter, Stella.
Portman, 25, makes a cameo as a ghost in the video for "Dance Tonight," a track from McCartney's new studio album, "Memory Almost Full." The video had its world premiere Wednesday on YouTube.com.
"The connection with Natalie came from my daughter Stella, who makes non-leather shoes that Natalie buys, so I just thought, `Well, I'll ring her up and just see if she'll do it.' So I rang her up and said, `Hey, I'm Stella's dad!'" the 64-year-old former Beatle said in a statement posted on his Web site.
Portman, whose screen credits include "Closer" and "V for Vendetta," plays a "futurist electronic ghost" who is summoned by the sound of McCartney's mandolin.
Filmmaker Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") directed the video.
"Memory Almost Full," McCartney's 21st solo album, will be released June 5 in the United States. It's his first release for Hear Music, Starbuck Corp.'s new record label.
McCartney last released the acclaimed "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," in 2005.
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http://www.paulmccartney.com/Hear Music:http://www.hearmusic.comA service of the Associated Press(AP)
http://news.google.com/nwshp?source=uds&q=Memory%20Almost%20Full
Paul McCartney says "Memory Almost Full" isn't nostalgic
Paul McCartney says that his new album, Memory Almost Full, isn't based on nostalgia -- despite the fact that the album's first single is called "My Ever Present Past." McCartney told pitchforkmedia.com that, "I wouldn't use the word nostalgia so much. Nostalgia implies something a bit soppy -- it's not a sort of very complimentary word. I would use the word 'memory' more, because I think a lot of artists use memories."
Monday, May 21, 2007
MEMORY ALMOST FULL LYRICS
MEMORY ALMOST FULL
Music and Lyrics For All Songs: Paul McCartney
Recorded February 2007
Release Date: June 6th, 2007
DANCE TONIGHT
Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna dance around
Everybody gonna hit the ground
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Well you can com’on to my place if you want to
You can do anything you wanna do
Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Well you can com’on to my place if you want to
You can do anything you wanna do
Everybody gonna stamp their feet
Everybody gonna feel the beat
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna jump and shout
Everybody gonna sing it out
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Well you can com’on to my place if you want to
You can do anything you wanna do
Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright tonight
MY EVER PRESENT PAST
I’ve got too much on my plate
Don’t have no time to be a decent lover
I hope it isn’t too late
Searching for the time that has gone so fast
The time that I thought would last
My ever present past
I’ve got too much on my mind
I think of everything to be discovered
I hope there’s something to find
Searching for the time that has gone so fast
The time that I thought would last
My ever present past
The things I think I did
I d.i. d.i. did
The things I think I did
When I was a kid
I couldn’t understand a word that they were saying
But still I hung around and took it all in
I wouldn’t join in with the games that they were playing
It went by it went by in a flash
It flew by it flew by
In a flash
There’s far too much on my plate
Don’t have no time to be a decent lover
I hope it’s never too late
Searching for the time that has gone so fast
The time that I thought would last
My ever present past
The things I think I did
I d.i. d.i. did
The things I think I did
When I was a kid
The things I think I did
I d.i. d.i. did
The things I think I did
When I was a kid
When I was a kid
YOUR SUNSHINE
She makes me feel glad
I want her so bad
My heart is beating madly for her
If you ask me why
I’m not going to lie
I’ll have to say that I adore her
Look what you do to me baby
You’re making me feel so fine
Step out in front of me baby
They want you in the front line
They want to see your sunshine
She picks up daisies from a field
She loves to weave them in her hair
And though she knows it isn’t real
She still hears music in the air
It’s coming from inside her heart
I hope it lasts forever
The sun is shining in her sky
She wants to dance around the world
And though I’d love to be the guy
That gets to walk off with the girl
I’ll go along with all she needs
And it will be my pleasure
Look what you do to me baby
You’re making me feel so fine
Step out in front of me baby
They want you in the front line
They want to see your sunshine
She makes me feel glad
I want her so bad
My heart is beating madly for her
If you ask me why
I’m not going to lie
I’ll have to say that I adore her
Look what you do to me baby
You’re making me feel so fine
I want to see your sunshine
ONLY MAMA KNOWS
Well I was found in the transit lounge
Of a dirty airport town
What was I doing on the road to ruin
Well my mama laid me down
My mama laid me down
Round my hand was a plastic band
With a picture of my face
I was crying, left to die in
This God forsaken place
This God forsaken place
Only mama knows why she laid me down
In this God forsaken town
Where she was running to what she ran from
Though I always wondered I never knew
Only mama knows
Only mama knows
I’m passing through I’m on my way
I’m on the road no ETA.
I’m passing through no fixed abode
And that is why I need to try
To hold on I’ve gotta hold on gotta hold on
Was it planned as a one night stand
Or did she leave in disgrace
Well I never will I ever see my fathers face see my fathers face
Only mama knows why she laid me down
In this God forsaken town
Where she was running to what she ran from
Though I always wondered I never knew
Only mama knows
Only mama knows
Only mama knows why she laid me down
In this God forsaken town
Where she was running to what she ran from
Though I always wondered I never knew
Only mama knows
Only mama knows
I’ve gotta hold on I’ve gotta hold on you’ve gotta hold on
YOU TELL ME
When was that summer when the skies were blue
The bright red cardinal flew down from his tree
You tell me
When was that summer when it never rained
The air was buzzing with the sweet old honey bee
Let’s see
You tell me
Were we there was it real
Is it truly how I feel
Maybe
You tell me
Were we there is it true
Was I really there with you
Let’s see
You tell me
When was that summer of a dozen words
The butterflies and humming birds flew free
Let’s see
You tell me
Let’s see
You tell me
MR. BELLAMY
I’m not coming down
No matter what you do
I like it up here
Without you
All right Mr Bellamy
We’ll have you down soon
No one to tell me what to do
No one to hold my hand
Bellamy’s got a lot to do
And I hope that you’ll understand
Nobody here to spoil the view
Interfere with my plans
Bellamy’s got a job to do
And he’s hoping you’ll understand
Steady lads
Easy does it
Don’t frighten him
Here we go
I’m not coming down
No matter what you say
I like it up here
Anyway
Sit tight Mr Bellamy
This shouldn’t take long
In a delusionary state
No wonder he’s been feeling strange of late
Nobody here to spoil the view
Interfere with my plans
Bellamy’s got a job to do
And he’s hoping you’ll understand
Steady lads
Easy does it
Don’t frighten him
Here we go
Here we go
I’m not coming down
No matter what you do
I like it up here
Without you
Come down
Come down
Come back to me
GRATITUDE
Gratitude gratitude gratitude
I’m so grateful for everything
You’ve ever given me
How can I explain what it means
To be loved by you
By you loved by you loved by you
Show my gratitude gratitude
Show my gratitude
I want to show my gratitude gratitude
Well I was lonely
I was living with a memory
But my cold and lonely nights ended
When you sheltered me
Loved by you
I was loved by you
Yeah I was loved by you
I want to show my gratitude
Want to show my gratitude
Yeah show my gratitude
Show my gratitude
I should stop loving you
Think what you put me through
But I don’t
Want to lock my heart away
I will look forward too
Days when I’ll be loving you
Until then gonna wish
And hope and pray
I want to show my gratitude gratitude
Yeah I want to show my gratitude
Show my gratitude
Yeah my gratitude
To be loved by you
Be loved by you to be loved by you
Loved by you
I want to show my gratitude gratitude
VINTAGE CLOTHERS
Don’t live in the past
Don’t hold onto something that’s changing fast
What we are is what we are
And what we wear is vintage clothes
Vintage clothes
Vintage clothes
We jump up for joy
Who cares if we look like a girl or boy
What we are is what we are
And what we wear is vintage clothes
Vintage clothes
Vintage clothes
A little worn
A little torn
Check the rack
What went out is coming back
Don’t live in the past
Don’t hold onto something that’s changing fast
What we are is what we are
And what we wear is vintage clothes
Vintage clothes
A little worn
A little torn
Check the rack
What went out is coming back
THAT WAS ME
That was me
At the scout camp
In the school play
Spade and bucket
By the sea
That was me
That was me
Playing conkers
At the bus stop
On a blanket
In the bluebells
That was me
The same me that stands here now
And when I think that all this stuff
Can make a life
It’s pretty hard to take it in
That was me
Well that was me
Royal Iris
On the river
Merseybeatin’
With the band
That was me
That was me
Sweating cobwebs
Under contract
In the cellar
On TV
That was me
The same me that stands here now
If fate decreed
That all of this
Would make a lifetime
Who am I to disagree
That was me
That was me
Acapella
At the altar
In the middle
Of the picture
That was me
That was me
THAT WAS ME (CONT’D)
At the party
Sweating cobwebs
In a cellar
On TV
That was me
The same me that stands here now
And when I think that all this stuff
Can make a life It’s pretty hard to take it in
That was me
That was me
FEET IN THE CLOUDS
Teacher said
I had my head in the clouds
They directed
I suspected
Disconnected
Had it my way
On the street
I had my feet on the ground
Stood corrected
Well protected
Resurrected
Had it my way
I’ve got my feet in the clouds
Got my head on the ground
I know that I’m not a square
As long as they’re not around
But I find it very very very very very very hard
Yes I find it very very very very very very hard
Love is fab
It’s like a stab in the heart
Hidden treasure
Made to measure
For my pleasure
Had it my way
I’ve got my feet in the clouds
Got my head on the ground
I know that I’m not a square
As long as they’re not around
And I find it very very very very very very hard
And I find it very very very very very very hard
Oh I find it very very, very very very very hard
Yes I find it very very very very very very hard
I’ve got my feet in the clouds
Got my head on the ground
I’m not a square
As long as they’re not around
But I find it so hard I find it so hard
HOUSE OF WAX
Lightning hits the house of wax
Poets spill out on the street
To set alight the incomplete
Remainders of the future
Hidden in the yard hidden in the yard
Thunder drowns the trumpets blast
Poets scatter through the night
But they can only dream of flight
Away from their confusion
Hidden in the yard underneath the wall
Buried deep below a thousand layers lay the answer to it all
Lightning hits the house of wax
Women scream and run around
To dance upon the battleground
Like wild demented horses
Hidden in the yard underneath the wall
Buried deep below a thousand layers lay the answer to it all
Hidden in the yard underneath the wall
Buried deep below a thousand layers lay the answer to it all
END OF THE END
At the end of the end
It’s the start of a journey
To a much better place
And this wasn’t bad
So a much better place
Would have to be special
No need to be sad
On the day that I die
I’d like jokes to be told
And stories of old
To be rolled out like carpets
That children have played on
And laid on while listening
To stories of old
At the end of the end
It’s the start of a journey
To a much better place
And a much better place
Would have to be special
No reason to cry
On the day that I die
I’d like bells to be rung
And songs that were sung
To be hung out like blankets
That lovers have played on
And laid on while listening
To songs that were sung
At the end of the end
It’s the start of a journey
To a much better place
And a much better place
Would have to be special
No reason to cry
No need to be sad
At the end of the end
NOD YOUR HEAD
If you really love me baby
Better than staying in bed
If you really love me baby
Nod your head
If you really love me baby
Till you fall down dead she said
If you ever want to make it
Nod your head
Nod it up
Nod it down
Side to side
Round and round
If you ever want to prove it
And you’re hanging on a thread
If you ever want to shake it
Nod your head
If you think the life you’re leading
Is better than the life you lead
If you like the life your living
Well nod your head
Well nod it up
Nod it down
Side to side
Round and round
If you really love me baby
Better than staying in bed
If you really love me baby
Nod your head
Thank You Mikie@Cybersmusic.com
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