Paul McCartney Releases New Song ‘Days We Left Behind’ from Upcoming Album

Sir Paul McCartney returns with his first new album in six years, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, with the first taste of the single Days We Left Behind accompanying the announcement. The album arrives on Friday 29th May, marking Sir Paul’s first original set since McCartney III, which hit #1 in the UK album charts in 2020.

Speaking about Days We Left Behind, Paul said: “This is very much a memory song for me. The album title, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, comes from a lyric in this track. I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John and Forthlin Road which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”

The album is said to be Sir Paul’s most introspective album yet, revisiting his formative years, with release notes sharing: “These new songs find Paul in a candid, vulnerable and deeply reflective mood, writing with openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania.”

The set was produced with Andrew Watt over a span of five years between Sir Paul’s touring schedule, with sessions alternating between Los Angeles and Sussex.

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Track list:
As You Lie There
⁠Lost Horizon
⁠Days We Left Behind
⁠Ripples in a Pond
⁠Mountain Top
⁠Down South
⁠We Two
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⁠Come Inside
⁠Never Know
⁠Home to Us
⁠Life Can Be Hard
⁠First Star of the Night
⁠Salesman Saint
⁠Momma Gets By