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‘Your Way’ is the eighth song on Paul McCartney’s 2001 album Driving Rain. See more…

‘Your Way’ was a song that I wrote at the same time as I wrote ‘She’s Given Up Talking’, on holiday in Jamaica. It’s got a little country feel to it; it’s the first song with which we tried harmonies with the guys in the band and the nice thing about the guys is they can all sing. That was a real good bonus for me. It’s another one of those that goes up the octave, so in a way it’s a bit like two sides of a personality singing to each other, like a man and a woman – ‘I like it, please don’t take my heart away. It’s happy, where it is, so let it stay’. I haven’t sweated the lyrics on this album, I’ve just sort of let it all come out very naturally. Sometimes you can think you want them to be very poetic and literate and articulate. But on this, because I was remembering the recording method we were using in The Beatles sessions, if you think about it often if you just pull off Beatles lyrics they can seem like nothing – ‘love, Love Me Do , you know I love you’ – but they obviously meant a lot to people. I remember saying to someone, ‘God , what a terrible lyric that is,’ and they said, ‘No, it’s not, don’t get into that, it’s a very simple lyric’ – but anyone wanting complicated literacy would not look to that song to get it. But that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.