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Released in 2013

Struggle

Written by Paul McCartneyPaul Epworth

Last updated on May 23, 2019


Album This song officially appears on the New (Japan Edition) Official album.

Timeline This song was officially released in 2013

Timeline This song was written, or began to be written, in 2012, when Paul McCartney was 70 years old)

Master album

Related sessions

This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:

Other songs co-written with Paul Epworth

Struggle” is one of the four songs written by Paul McCartney and producer Paul Epworth, and released on the 2013 album “New” – “Struggle” has been firstly released as a bonus track of the Japanese version of the album, before being available worldwide as part of the New – Collector’s Edition.

From Evening Standard, February 1, 2013:

[…] And then [Paul Epworth] plays me, at ear-zinging volume, one of the songs he’s written and recorded with Paul McCartney for his next album. It’s called ‘Struggle’, and sounds like Macca’s greatest non-Beatles song. But that’s not too hard. ‘It could be a defining statement for him,’ Epworth says of their four-song collaboration, ‘especially [considering] where he is in his career…’ […]


Lyrics

Want to get you in my heart again

Want to love you once more

Want to have you in my heart again

Want to get you once more


If you wanna love, if you wanna fight

It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight


When I get you home, what I wanna do

Babe, I wanna sample everything with you

Yes, I wanna love you, I don't wanna fight

I can think of something when I get you home tonight


All I want is loving, anything will do

I'm your glass of poison and I'm acting up on you


If you wanna love, if you wanna fight

It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight


Yeah, you know what you got here

You got the same old story happening again

The eternal struggle, the destiny of man


It's the same old story, it's happening again

Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man


If you wanna love, if you wanna fight

It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight

All I want is love, anything will do

I'm your glass of poison and I'm acting up on you


It's the same old song

Being sung in the background, being sung up front

But if you wanna get it right, you gotta listen

Heed my words, listen to me!


Anytime you want me, I'm not hard to find

I can't get your loving, I can't get you off my mind

But if I need you sometime, you got me here right now

We can work it out together, we'll get through this somehow


It's the same old story, it's happening again

Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man


It's the same old story, it's happening again

Life's eternal struggle

Variations

  • A Album version

Officially appears on

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Videos

Live performances

Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.

Paul McCartney writing

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