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Released in 2018

Dominoes

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:

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

One of the interesting things about songs is they often come from something that happens in your life, and your song is the reaction to it. It could be something very small. You just sort of have an argument with someone and you can just go off and think “I’ll just play guitar for a while, get out of it, you know, get over it”. And this kind of started like that.

So it’s just a people song about how things are really all right but they don’t always seem to be alright. And then I got this image of dominoes, you know, when people line up those millions of dominoes and then they drop the first one and it goes through this whole sequence. So I imagined that as being symbolic of life and, you know, how one little action can have such a big effect on this huge line of dominoes.

And then when I recorded it, it seemed I wanted to do it very personally as a sort of personal song. You know, even though he goes through all this stuff, and all these dominoes fall over and life goes on and in fact in the end it’s okay.

Paul McCartney
Each track of “Egypt Station” has been given individual artwork that was first published on Twitter on August 14, 2018

Lyrics

In time we’ll know, it’s all a show

It’s been a blast

As time goes by, we’ll laugh and cry

It’s in the past

We can start to begin

Living in the world we’re in

From day to day, we’ll fight and play

For what we need

We’ll soon forget, we ever met

And disagreed

We can start to begin

Living in the world we’re in

This is it, here and now

We can find our way

Somehow

And lines of dominoes are falling

Into place ignoring everything in their way

And all the telephones are calling

Constantly imploring us to come out and play

And soon we’ll see, that you and me

We’re really friends

We broke the code, and walked the road

That never ends

We can start to begin

Living in the world we’re in

This is it, here and now

We can find our way

Somehow

And lines of dominoes are falling

Into place ignoring everything in their way

And all the telephones keep calling

Constantly imploring us to come out and play

We’ll take our turn, and try to learn

To sing and dance

We’ll hedge our bets, with no regrets

And take a chance

We can start to begin

Living in the world we’re in

This is it, here and now

We can find our way

Somehow

And lines of dominoes are falling

Into place ignoring everything in their way

And all the telephones keep calling

Constantly imploring us to come out and play

In time we’ll know, it’s all a show

It’s been a blast

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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