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Released in 2005

Follow Me

Written by Paul McCartney

Last updated on January 12, 2021

Album This song officially appears on the Chaos and Creation in the Backyard Official album.

Timeline This song was officially released in 2005

Timeline This song was written, or began to be written, in 2003, when Paul McCartney was 61 years old)

Master album

Related sessions

This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:

Related interview

“Follow Me” is a track from Paul McCartney’s 2005 album “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard“. From an interview of Paul McCartney by Gary Crowley:

Follow Me was one of those songs that kind of almost wrote itself.  You know, sometimes you’re feeling great about your life, not always but you’ve been lucky.  You’re feeling great (plays) and, erm, I actually had done something where I had sung Let It Be and I was thinking, ‘It’s kind of nice having a song like that because it’s kind of quasi-religious but it’s very uplifting, you know’.  ‘There will be an answer, let it be,’ and stuff, you know.  (Plays) It’s in C, a very sort of open key.  (Sings) ‘When I find myself, in times of trouble,’ so I was sort of messing around in that region and thinking of the same sort of thing, you know.  What is it?  It’s just somebody very important in your life or is it spirits of goodness or whatever it is, something kind of great so it was just like, (sings) ‘You lift up  my spirits, you shine on my song, whenever I’m empty, you make me feel whole, I can rely on you to guide me through any  situation, hold up the sign that reads, Follow Me.’  Come on, boys, everybody in.  It was one of those that just kind of wrote itself once you got there.  It was like you do this, you’re great, you just give me direction, it just inspired.

Paul McCartney – 2005 UK promotional-only interview CD, recorded July 2005 at Air Studios in London; full interview available on Chronicles in the Backyard Disc 1

Lyrics

You lift up my spirits

You shine on my soul

Whenever I'm empty

You make me feel whole

I can rely on you

To guide me through

Any situation

You hold up a sign that reads, follow me

You give me direction

You show me the way

You give me a reason

To face every day

I can depend on you

To send me to

Any destination

You hold up a sign that reads, follow me, follow me

Down the track of loneliness

Down the path of love

Through the woods of heartache to the end

On the shores of sorrow

Where the waves of hope crash in

The perfect place for me to find a friend

You lead to places

That I've never been

Uncovering secrets

That I've never seen

I can rely on you

To guide me through

Any situation

You hold up a sign that reads

Follow me, follow me,

Follow me, follow me,

Follow me, follow me

Follow me, follow me

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“Follow Me” has been played in 34 concerts.

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