Getting Closer | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

‘Getting Closer’ is the second track on Wings’ final album Back To The Egg. See more…

Paul McCartney wrote the song in 1973, recording both a piano demo and a performance on acoustic guitar that year.

One of the things about Wings was this freedom to not make sense. Sometimes I just liked the words and I wasn’t bothered about making sense. ‘Say you don’t love him’ – that’s not from any real experience, it’s not like I was being jilted or cuckolded or anything; it was a device to get me into the song. ‘I’m getting closer to your heart.’ I’m also arriving, driving towards where you are. ‘Keeping ahead of the rain on the road/Watching my windscreen wipers/Radio playing me a danceable ode’. ‘Hitting the chisel and making a joint’… You knew your audience would be amused by those little references, because rolling joints was still a little bit underground at that time.