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31 March 2008
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‘So Bad’ is the fifth song on Paul McCartney’s fourth solo album Pipes Of Peace. See more…
It was a little melody I had and I started writing words. They seemed to be very simple and very corny but they seemed to fit. There was no way I could make them more grammatical – ‘Girl I love you so bad-ly’ – it had to be ‘Girl I love you so bad’.
I started singing it at home with the kids and Linda, and ‘Girl I love you so bad’ was fine for everyone except James, who would have been about four and a half, and I felt I was leaving him out. So just for him I sang ‘Boy I love you so bad’ and he would go all shy and it was lovely. Then I worked it into the song as ‘And she said Boy I love you so bad.’
It’s just a very simple love song which is overtly sentimental. Sometimes you have to write that way because you love it. You can relate to it when you’ve been through the mill and you’ve got a nice partner. Maybe it means more than it does to a lad of eighteen
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Offline When I was a young kid growing up ‘Pipes Of Peace ‘ was possibly the only Paul single we had (maybe ‘Mull Of Kintyre ‘ was there) and therefore ‘So Bad’ got played a hell of a lot. Probably for that reason it remains a favourite of mine, even if it hasn’t aged that well.
I do love the theme of the song and the lyrics resonate a lot with me.
“There is a pain inside my heart
You mean so much to me
Girl, I love you
Girl, I love you so badAnd if you leave, my pain will go
But that’s no good to me
Girl, I love you
Yes, I love you so bad”
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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