Chords for Paul McCartney - The Making Of "I Want To Come Home"

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_ _ _ [D#] So, I think Daryl explained, it's [D] a new film with Robert De Niro in it and [Bm] they wanted
me to do the song [D] at the end of the film.
Best place for me.
I [E] was just asked through my office if I wanted to do a song at the end of a new film that
was coming out that was starring Robert De Niro and I said, yeah, I'm interested.
So it was really the same old story, it was a phone call.
When I was shown the film originally, it was in a little viewing theater in Soho and I
was kind of on my own and so I was just watching the film, enjoying it and thinking, if I'm
going to do a song, you know, what might it be?
I was not really getting ideas, but just getting an atmosphere.
And they'd laid in Let It Be, unbeknownst to me, sung by Aretha Franklin.
So I'm going, okay, yeah, this will be really easy.
I can write another Let It Be and I can sing like Aretha Franklin.
Thank you, director, throwing me such a curve ball.
And I thought, well, there's no way I can do that.
So I kind of left the viewing theater thinking, well, it's a nice film, but I've probably
got a pass on this.
But later that evening, I got a little idea. _
So I put down a little bit of an idea and it grew from there.
And I thought, oh, yeah, I can do something.
_ _ [Gm] _ [G] I try and do music and lyrics together normally.
I have a kind of rough idea of what might work.
And the original song was a little bit different, but I found a little bit in the middle of
it which was sort of like this.
Then suddenly I [Am] found [C] that little bit.
So then I went sort of, for [G] [Am] too long, I was out in my own.
[C] And so that sounded like the start of a song then.
So I started to work around that for so long.
I was out in the cold.
So that's where it started.
And then I just developed it from that, words and music.
But that little beginning of the verse was what led me forward.
So I thought, OK, now I sort of know what I'm doing. _ _ _
[G] _ And then _ _ _ _ I finished it and I thought, you know what?
This could work.
_ Every day I spend [Am] trying to prove I can make it [Bm] alone.
I could definitely identify to Rob De Niro's part because I have grown up kids who've got
their own families.
And [E] so what happens, first of all, is you say, hey, kids, let's all have Christmas together.
And while they're younger, it's like, yeah, of course.
But when they get a bit older and they've got their own kids, they've got their own
husband, then it's kind of, well, you know, we would like to have our first family Christmas
together on our own.
And you've got to deal with that.
It's like, yeah, OK, I understand. _
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[C#] In my mind, what they wanted [Bm] at the end of this film [A] is a song from me, not so much a
piece of the score.
And that was like one of the questions I had to work out.
Am I just going to go segue seamlessly from [G] Dario's score? _
And I just happened to start singing.
Or am I going to actually let his score finish and then I come in with something that I recognize
will be a song?
So that was what I decided to do in the end.
And I said to Dario, no, I want that to happen after Bob De Niro's last line.
Your family is making its way in the world.
And you can be proud of the children and their achievements.
_ And if you were to ask me, I would have to say, in all [F] honesty, _ _ everybody's fine. _ _
_ Everybody's fine.
I'd like, then, my record to kind of unfold and then work its way to the end credits,
which just be the kind of emotional end of the movie.
Originally, I had this song as a very simple me and piano, just a little bit of bass and
drums, acoustic guitar.
And then I started to think it might be good with a bit of orchestration.
I talked to the director, who told me that [C] he'd been using Dario Marinelli.
And [B] I knew of Dario's work.
[Em] So I thought it'd be [Am] nice for me to use him rather than [Em] get some other orchestrator.
[F] So Dario and I [Am] just talked.
I went to his house in Highbury, offered to tidy his garden up for him.
It was just a little bonus.
It still needs tidying up, by the way, Dario. _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Bm] We got on very well.
And [C] we decided to basically throw everything at it and just see what happened.
And in fact, we threw too much at it.
And he did a demo on a synth.
But then we thought, no, we've put too many _ _ notes or too much in it.
So it was like in Amadeus, the film where the king says, too many notes.
So we had another meeting where I expressed that to him.
I said, I think we've got to simplify it.
And what we do [F#] is we'll keep to solo [Em] voices like a cello or [C] just a couple of violins before
we go to the big orchestra.
So it kind of stays quite intimate and not too overblown.
Just try [E] to keep the simplicity of the [C] song.
Once we got that together after a couple of meetings, [F#m] we thought, OK, [B] I think we've just
got it [Em] right now.
So we came [Am] here to Air London.
[Em] And this morning we [Dm] did the [G] session.
And I think they played [C] great.
Everyone played very well, the soloists and the ensemble.
And so we're just about to mix it now.
[G] And yeah, it's been great [C] fun. _
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Now I wanna [G] know, _ it's been too long.
Now I wanna [G] know, it's been [C] too long.
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[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ I got it.
Thanks, man.
[C] Cheers.
[Am] Mr.
Biderman.
[Bm] _ Your family is making its [Em] way in the world.
And you can be proud of the children and [C] their achievements.
_ _ And if you were to ask me, I would have to say, in [G] all honesty, _ _ _ everybody's fine.
[F#m] _ _ _ [Em] Everybody's fine.
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[G] _ _ [C] For [Am] so long, I was out [G] on the coast.
_ [C] But I taught myself [Am] to believe every [Bm] story I told.
It [Em] was fun hanging on [Bm] to the moon and into [C] the sun.
But it's been too long.
[C] Now I wanna [G] come home.
Yeah, it's been too long.
But now I wanna [G] come home.
Been [C] too long. _ _
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