Paul McCartney - Save Us & Jet video free download

BBC In Concert (Maida Vale Studios, 16 October 2013)

"Save Us" is a song written by Paul McCartney and produced by Paul Epworth. It is the opening track on McCartney's album "New" (2013).

΄΄(...) First up for a dose of fun was Paul Epworth, who did what anyone presented with 20 new Paul McCartney songs to record would do, and decided put them to one side and jam something more. "I feel like I thrive as a producer from getting in a room with somebody, and making music from scratch," says Epworth. "He came down for a meeting, to sit down and have a chat, and within an hour we were in the live room with him on bass and me on drums -- that was definitely a pinch yourself moment! -- and within 20 minutes we had this riff together, which became the first song on the record."

"It's hard not to get caught up in that kind of excitement," enthuses McCartney of the experience, which took place in Epworth's small London studio. "It's similar to my Fireman project and I like working like that. It's always a motivating thing for me, having to clear the backlog before I can write more, to realise you suddenly have enough for an album. But Paul had an idea for us to write something new. So even though I had 20 songs, the first one we put down, the opening track, we wrote in the studio just off the back of Paul's enthusiasm."

That song, 'Save Us', with the kind of modern-yet-retro, frenetic and fuzzy guitars that so characterised The Strokes, certainly lives up to McCartney's claims of not being in a style that you would associate with him.΄΄

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"Jet" is also a song written by Paul McCartney and it is the second track on "Band On The Run" (1973). It peaked at number 7 in both the British and American charts on 30 March 1974. Along with "Helen Wheels" and "Junior's Farm", it is another McCartney song where his primary inspiration for composing the song arose in daily life. Whereas most of the "Band On The Run" album was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria, "Jet" was recorded entirely at EMI Studios in London after the group's return (according to engineer Geoff Emerick in his book Here There and Everywhere). When first released, the single's B-side was "Mamunia", another track from "Band On The Run". However, it was soon replaced with "Let Me Roll It". Reviewers have reported that the subject of the song is McCartney's Labrador Retriever dog named "Jet". However, in a 2010 interview on the UK television channel ITV1 for the program Wings: Band On The Run (to promote the November 2010 CD/DVD re-release of the album) McCartney explained that Jet was the name of a pony he had owned, although many of the lyrics bore little relation to the subject; indeed, the true meaning of the lyrics has defied all attempts at decryption.

Lyrics (Save Us):

I can try to give you everything you ever wanted

You're not hard to please

And the only thing I'm asking is return is something

You can give with ease

Keep on sending your love

Cause in the heat of battle

You got something that'll save us

Save us now

Got a feeling there's a jungle rhythm beating in me

When I'm close to you

I don't really want to ask too many favours

But there's something you can do

Keep on sending your love

Cause in the heat of battle

You got something that'll save us

Save us now

Ohhhhhh

You're my woman

Ohhhhhh

Keep it coming

Ohhhhhh

You got something that can save us

Save us

Keep on sending your love

Cause in the heat of battle

You got something that'll save us

Save us now

Save us now

Save us now

Lyrics (Jet):

Jet, Jet

Jet, I can almost remember the funny faces

That time you told me that you were going to be marrying soon

And Jet

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon

Jet, ooh, Jet, ooh

Jet, was your father as bold as a Sergeant Major?

How come he told you that you're hardly old enough yet?

And Jet

I thought the Major was a Lady Suffragette

Jet, ooh, Jet, ooh

Ah, mater, want Jet to always love me

Ah, mater, want Jet to always love me

Ah, mater, much later

Jet

And Jet

You know that I thought the Major was a little Lady Suffragette

Jet, ooh, Jet, ooh

Ah, mater, want Jet to always love me

Ah, mater, want Jet to always love me

Ah, mater, much later

Jet, with the wind in your hair of a thousand laces

Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky

And Jet

I thought the Major was a little Lady Suffragette

Jet, ooh, Jet, ooh

And Jet

Don't you know that I thought you was a little Lady Suffragette

Jet, ooh

A little lady