Let's look beyond the goofy flutes and/or whatnot and the oddly aggressive nature of the song (because it's just so out of character for the nice man.) Paul McCartney screwed up "Live And Let Die" in a huge way in my book because of a horrible grammar mistake.…
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26 - Jet in Columbus
Tom, trust me, I just got hit for using It's instead of its, in a string I just had published an hour ago, so I know the feeling, but if I were you, I'd have done my homework on line. I also got the amount of money a guy lost in the stock market per share confused with the actual price he sold it for. It was easily fixed with a quick "I'm wrong" and a thanks to Dave Nalle, but this is beyond that.
So as gently as I can...
the word "If" blows this whole string sky high, and I'd delete it.
I bought the vinal soundtrack album for the movie the day it came out waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, and trust me Axl did not do it justice at all. But you know what I've learned over the years? You like the first version you hear, so if you heard Axl first, you'd think Paul's version sucked.
All things being equal, I'd delete the whole post before a bunch more give ya grief, my friend...
...but that's only my opinion.
Jet
27 - Jet in Columbus
Help me understand this, is everyone aware that this whole thing was written almost 2 YEARS ago????
28 - Christopher Rose
Time passes differently on the web, Jet.
Tell me, are you named for the McCartney song?
29 - Jet in Columbus
My father was in the airforce and I grew up literally at the end of the runway pattern of Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.
As a kid, I'd run around the yard as the jets flew over VERY LOW with their landing gears down, and make jet noises, and I acquired the nickname.
I used to never refer to them as jets, they were L1011's or 747s or C124s.
One winter when it snowed, I shoveled out a giant HI DAD in our acre back hard, because my father flew right over our house to land.
From then on I was known as Jet
30 - Tom
No, no changing of this piece, no deletion. I'm just stunned at the inability of people to comprehend what they're reading. It's always fun to get an alert of a comment on this because it's always surprising to see the dunderheadedness of people on the internet. "Humor," people, do you recognize that?
31 - Vern Halen
Sometimes it's hard to find the humor on this blog on which we blog on sometimes.
32 - Christopher Rose
Bart: Well if your soul's real, where is it?
Milhouse: It's kinda in here... and when you sneeze, that's your soul trying to escape. Saying god bless you crams it back in. And when you die, it squirms out and flies away!
Bart: What if you die in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean?
Milhouse: Oh, it can swim, it's even got wheels, in case you die in the desert and have to drive to the cemetery.
33 - zingzing
this world in which we're living?
is that possibly what he said?
34 - Steve
oh, man that line has bugged me for years. i've finally come to peace with it by intending myself to hear "...world in which we're livin'..."
seriously, i've found peace
and no longer curse or change the station when this song comes on now.
i feel this is important enough, obviously, to search out blogs like yours and share my discovery. : )
35 - Mike
McCartney himself has said it's: "...in which we're living"
Hard to tell upon close listening, and he could have changed it retroactively when playing it live later on.
36 - John W.
I solved this one ages ago. "And if this ever-changing world in which we're living..."
Done and dusted.
37 - Mike in NYC
I've got a copy of the published sheet music from back in '73 and the lyrics are printed "but if this ever changing world in which we're living, make you give in and cry." Also .... I saw Macca live at Yankee Stadium and that was the lyric that they printed on the "sing along" vid screen.
38 - AdamLaceky
Sorry to parade in your rain, but you're wrong. Here's the correct lyric, in context of the verse.
When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live.
But if this ever-changing world in which we're livin'
Makes you give in and cry
Say Live and let die.
In other words, "if this world makes you cry, say live and let die."