You see, in the early days of the synth, you were intrigued by the synth string sounds, and you thought they were good. Yeah, it was a “song”, I’d done it on piano. That’s the kind of thing you realise when you pass 30. And that’s a kind of more mature thought for me than I would have been able to have done 20 years ago, ’cause I just didn’t realise that it’s not all gonna be here for ever. Waterfalls is basically saying don’t go doing a load of dangerous stuff, ’cause I need you. The Beatles - The Dream is Over: Off The Record 2 Shop on Amazonįrom unknown McCartney interview (and reported by The Beatles Bible): So when you get such a good feeling, you think that perhaps it should be a single. And it worked! A lot of people have rung up about that one and said that it’s their favourite. But in time, I got to like them and I thought I should add electric piano and a distant string synthesizer like a mad Swiss orchestra on a mountaintop. I thought I’d have to get serious and sensible and change them. That’s why it’s included. The original lyrics were just working lyrics, gut lyrics, just spewed out. So I decided to do a song that was already written, a track left over from the last Wings album, and that was my favourite at the time.
I had finished about eight tracks by then and I thought I would do something different. Halfway through the album, making it all up as I went along, I got a bit bored. I just had this waterfalls and lakes idea, from the notices you see in American tourist resorts, and it stuck. The only song that was written before I came to record was Waterfalls… Waterfalls could have been called ‘I Need Love’ but that would have been too ordinary. Paul McCartney in The Beatles – The Dream is Over: Off The Record 2, by Keith Badman:
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