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Il primo vero lavoro degli anni '90 di McCartney segna un deciso ritorno alle origini nel concepire la realizzazione di un album, Paul abbandona i pezzi levigati e le produzioni altisonanti che hanno contraddistinto i suoi anni '80 e che trovano piena affermazione in "Flowers In The Dirt" per ritornare a forme di espressione più immediate, senza scomodare i Beatles basta rifarsi ai Wings di "Back To The Egg" per trovare una forma analoga.
Del gruppo che ha inciso il lavoro precedente Paul mantiene per 3\4 la stessa formazione, Linda, Wix Wickens, Hamish Stuart e Robbie McIntosh mentre Blair Cunnigham sostituisce Witten (impegnato con i Dire Straits) alla batteria. Le registrazioni producono molto materiale e l'idea iniziale del Macca è che il lavoro debba essere necessariamente doppio, alla fine però "Off The Ground" vede la luce nella veste originale solo sul mercato Giapponese mentre nel resto del mondo il secondo disco viene spezzato in diversi EP, questa è una precisazione doverosa perchè solo ascoltando tutto il materiale s'intuisce che questo lavoro è molto riuscito e vario e che mette in evidenza l'anima ecologista dei McCartney.
Le prime note della title track scandite da roboanti chitarre elettriche rispecchiano pienamente il nuovo sound, tutto semplificato e reso immediato, con "Looking For Changes" McCartney denuncia la pratica della vivisezione e degli esperimenti sugli animali nei laboratori, una grande prova da rocker resa ottimamente anche dal vivo. "Hope For Deliverance" è un brano acustico dalle atmosfere latine molto riuscite che rendono la canzone un buon pezzo di facile presa sul pubblico, della collaborazione con Costello, Paul recupera il valzer di "Mistress An Maid", una canzone sulla solitudine osservata attraverso gli occhi di una donna, uno dei pezzi più belli dell'album. La scelta dei brani però non è molto condivisibile, vengono pubblicati su Ep grandi pezzi come "Long Leather Coat", a firma di Linda sul tema delle pellicce, e "Big Boys Bickering" (brano censurato per via del ritornello che invita i politicanti che si disinteressano dell'ecologia ad andare a quel paese) per far strada sull'album a cose più semplici come "Biker Like An Icon", brano ispirato da una storia vera di una ragazza che scappa di casa invaghita di un motociclista.
Ma brani come "C'mon People", la ballata pianistica di "Winedark Open Sea" rendono prezioso l'intero disco che regala anche una cosa curiosa, la rilettura di "Warm And Beatiful" del 1976 ora diventata "Golden Earth Girl" che Paul dedica a Linda, belli i versi"La ragazza dal cuore d'oro, animale femmina /Canta al vento, al tramonto riposa/in un nido muschioso/Avverte il chiaro di luna nell'aria/Il chiaro di luna nell'aria."
Il disco costituisce l'ossatura del nuovo tour mondiale, che è l'ultima prova del vecchio McCartney prima dei radicali cambiamenti dovuti al fato che lo attendono.
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01 Off the Ground (03:41)
There must have been a lot of heartache
For you to sink so low.
You must have had a ton of pressure.
Only answer if the answer�s no.
I need loving, you need loving too.
Doesn't take a lot to get off the ground.
There must have been a lot of magic
When the world was born.
Let me be the one you wish for,
One you call for, when you're all alone.
I need loving, you need loving too.
Wouldn't take a lot to get off the ground.
Off the ground, off the ground.
Fly around, fly around.
Hear the sound, hear the sound.
Off the ground, off the ground.
Though it takes a lot of power
To make a big tree grow.
It doesn't need a pot of knowledge,
For a seed knows what a seed must know.
You need loving, I need loving too.
Doesn't take a lot to get off the ground.
Off the ground, off the ground.
Fly around, fly around.
Hear the sound, hear the sound.
Off the ground, off the ground.
Hear the sound, hear the sound.
Off the ground, off the ground.
Yeah yeah, off the ground.
03 Hope of Deliverance (03:21)
I will always be hoping, hoping.
You will always be holding, holding
My heart in your hand.
I will understand
I will understand someday, one day.
You will understand always, always
From now until then.
When it will be right, I don't know.
What it will be like, I don't know.
We live in hope of deliverance
From the darkness that surrounds us.
Hope of deliverance, hope of deliverance
Hope of deliverance from the darkness
That surrounds us.
And I wouldn't mind knowing, knowing
That you wouldn't mind going,
Going along with my plan.
When it will be right, I don't know.
What it will be like, I don't know.
We live in hope of deliverance
From the darkness that surrounds us.
Hope of deliverance, hope of deliverance
Hope of deliverance from the darkness
That surrounds us. (x3)
Hope of deliverance.
Hope of deliverance.
I will understand.
04 Mistress and Maid (03:00)
She Said
Come In My Dear,
You're Looking Tired Tonight.
Your Bath Is Drawn, Let Me Loosen Your Tie
And Fix You Your Usual Drink.
He Settles Back,
Takes A Magazine,
Kicks Off His Shoes, As He Studies The Form
Of Every Appealing Soubrette.
But Where Are The Flowers That He Used To Bring?
Every Endearing Remark
Reminds Her Of Passionarte Promises,
That He Only Made In The Dark.
In Her Bed,
She Wants To Shout At The Back Of His Head
Look At Me, Look At Me, Look At Me I'm Afraid
See What It's Come To,
I'm Just Your Mistress And Maid.
The Wine Is Warm
But The Dinner Is Cold.
The Look In His Eye Tells Her It Won't Be Long
'Till The Girls On The Page Come To Life.
And They'll Get The Flowers That He Used To Bring
With Every Endearing Remark,
And All Of The Passionate Promises
He'll Never Fulfil In The Dark.
In Their Bed,
She Wants To Shout At The Back Of His Head
Look At Me, Look At Me, Now That I'm Not Afraid.
See What It's Come To,
I'm Not Your Mistress And Maid.
See What It's Come To,
I'm Not Your Mistress Annf Maid.
05 I Owe It All to You (04:51)
Last night you helped me through,
Took me to the lover zone.
I saw there, images
Projected on a wall of stone.
I stood inside Egyptian temples,
I looked into eternal gardens,
Lay on the shores of distant islands,
Listening to the sea birds song of joy.
Oh - I owe it all to you,
You make me happy,
Oh - I owe it all to you.
Last night, we were right
Into some exotic scene.
Everywhere, images
Appearing on a gigant screen.
I stood inside a glass cathedral,
I looked into the golden canyon,
Lay by the lakes of holy water
Glistening lika a diamond in the light.
Oh - I owe it all to you,
You make me happy,
Oh - I owe it all to you.
06 Biker Like an Icon (03:26)
There Was A Girl Who Loved A Biker
She Used To Follow Him Across America
But The Biker Didn't Like Her.
She Didn't Care, She Still Persisted
Though Her Brother Said She Was Twisted
And The Family Said They Wouldn't Miss Her
Anyway.
She Loved The Biker Like An Icon
Gazing At His Picture Everyday.
She Loved The Biker Like An Icon
Slowly Watching Precious Water Drip Away.
She Did Her Best To Fix A Meeting
She Pulled It Off One Night In Hollywood
When He Met Her He Couldn't Let Her Get Away.
He Didn't Ask For Her Permission
He Took Advantage Of Her Position
But He Was Always Her Ambitiion
Anyway.
She Loved The Biker Like An Icon
Gazing At His Picture Everyday.
She Loved The Biker Like An Icon
Slowly Watching Precious Water Drip Away.
The Family Tried So Hard To Find Her
They Showed Her Picture Across America.
But No Trace Of Her Sweet Face
Was Ever Found.
She Loved The Biker Like An Icon
Gazing At His Picture Everyday.
She Loved The Biker Like An Icon
Slowly Watching Precious Water Drip Away.
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