Paul McCartney announces new album ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane,’ shares “The Days We Left Behind”

Paul McCartney has announced a new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which will be out May 29 via MPL/Capitol. It was made with producer Andrew Watt (Rolling Stones, Eddie Vedder) over the last five years and is described as “a collection of rare and revealing glimpses into memories never-before shared along with some newly inspired love songs.”

The first single is the lovely, gentle, “The Days We Left Behind,” which is where the album title came from. Paul says, “This is very much a memory song for me. The album title, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, comes from a lyric in this track. I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John and Forthlin Road which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”

Watch the lyric video below.

Paul’s two intimate shows at LA’s Fonda Theatre this weekend make a little more sense now.

The Boys of Dungeon Lane
As You Lie There
Lost Horizon
Days We Left Behind
Ripples in a Pond
Mountain Top
Down South
We Two
Come Inside
Never Know
Home to Us
Life Can Be Hard
First Star of the Night
Salesman Saint
Momma Gets By