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Released in 2018

Hand In Hand

Written by Paul McCartney

Last updated on September 9, 2018

Album This song officially appears on the Egypt Station Official album.

Timeline This song was officially released in 2018

Master album

Related sessions

This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:

Related interview

“Hand In Hand” is a track from 2018 album “Egypt Station“.  From “Words Between The Tracks” YouTube series:

Sometimes songs just come to you, sort of late at night. And I’ve got a piano at home, and in actual fact this particular piano happens to be my dad’s old piano, so it’s special to me. And I was sitting there one night and I just started to find these chords that are the beginning of Hand In Hand.
And it’s basically a love song. And as I wrote it, I was imagining me and Nancy about to go through life hand in hand. It was written in the early stage of our relationship.

And then I started to think, ‘Yeah, well, this is a lot of people.’ You know, there are millions of people in that situation, where they’ve got someone they love, and they want to go through life hand in hand, and to be a partnership of some kind.

And it was nice, actually, when we recorded it, we had two lady cellists. That’s all there is on there beside the band. And it was very sweet ’cause at the end of it we liked what they’d done, we said that’s great, thank you. And one of them sort of said, ‘Oh, you know what? I’m getting married for the second time, and I’m a little bit nervous, but this song has made me think it’s going to work out all right.’ So we though, that’s it! You know, that’s a reason, right there, for writing that song.

Paul McCartney

Lyrics

Want to give you my heart

Want to tell you my story

Going to take it to another level

You and me

Want to give you my word

Let me give you my promise

I will try to make it happen

You can guarantee

Hand in hand

Walking through life

And making our plans

Hand in hand

Let me enter your light

Want to show you my passion

We can make each other happy

If we get it right

Hand in hand

Walking through life

And making our plans

Hand in hand

Taking our time

And making a stand

We can make this dream come true

Only if we want it to

We can make this dream come true

Only when we understand

Everything in life is planned

Can we make this dream come true

Want to give you my heart

Want to tell you my story

Going to take it to another level

You and me

Hand in hand

Walking through life

And making our plans

Hand in hand

Hand in hand

Variations

  • A Album version

Officially appears on

Live performances

Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.

Paul McCartney writing

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