{"id":24675,"date":"2026-06-06T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=24675"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:17:44","slug":"momma-gets-by-while-papa-gets-high-at-84-paul-mccartney-may-have-just-written-his-most-heartbreaking-tribute-yet-for-decades-paul-mccartney-has-filled-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=24675","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u201cMOMMA GETS BY WHILE PAPA GETS HIGH\u2026\u201d \u2014 AT 84, PAUL McCARTNEY MAY HAVE JUST WRITTEN HIS MOST HEARTBREAKING TRIBUTE YET For decades, Paul McCartney has filled his songs with characters the world often overlooks. The lonely woman in the corner. The exhausted mother carrying everyone else\u2019s burdens. The quiet survivor who keeps going when nobody is watching. Now, fans say his new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane feels like a return to that deeply personal thread that has run through his music since Eleanor Rigby and Lady Madonna. But this time, there\u2019s something different. The stories feel older, more reflective, and perhaps closer to home than ever before. One lyric near the end of the album has already stopped listeners in their tracks, with many calling it one of the most poignant moments McCartney has written in years.\u00a0\u00a0Read more in the first comment below."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cMomma gets by while Papa gets high,\u201d\u00a0Paul McCartney\u00a0sings at the end of his superb new album,\u00a0The Boys of Dungeon Lane<\/em>. It\u2019s a story he\u2019s kept telling his whole career \u2014 the ballad of a tough, lonely, but resilient old woman, who nobody else even notices. He\u2019s always written songs about these women, going back to \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d and \u201cLady Madonna\u201d to \u201cAnother Day\u201d or \u201cJenny Wren.\u201d This is Paul\u2019s favourite kind of person to sing about \u2014 or maybe just his favourite kind of person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s always been something that set McCartney apart from other male songwriters of his generation. Sixty years ago, he wrote \u201cEleanor Rigby,\u201d just a boy of 24, a Beatle with the whole world at his feet. But he\u2019s still chronicling her all these years later, now that he\u2019s older than Eleanor Rigby ever got to be. \u201cMomma Gets By\u201d sounds like a full-circle moment for him \u2014 the culmination of a lifelong story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman in \u201cMomma Gets By\u201d holds down a job to pay the rent, keeps the family together. Her lazy husband ignores her, but she doesn\u2019t grumble, just makes do. Why? \u201cShe loves him,\u201d Paul sings, over and over. \u201cWith all her heart and soul.\u201d He reaches up into his most fragile high notes, so that you can hear his real voice, the one he\u2019s got now, weathered by the years. He wants to make sure nobody misses hearing all the long and winding roads in his voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul was always fascinated by old folks, even when he was the world\u2019s favourite symbol of flaming youth. In the Summer of Love, he gave the world a soft-shoe fantasy about a couple at the unthinkable age of sixty-four. But \u201cWhen I\u2019m 64\u201d was younger, so much younger than today. In a few weeks, he\u2019s turning 84. And damn right, we still need him and feed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dungeon Lane<\/em>\u00a0continues his historic hot streak \u2014 the fact that Sir Paul can just pick up a guitar at 83, and songs like these come spilling out? The man wrote \u201cLove Me Do\u201d\u00a0sixty-nine years ago<\/em>. That\u2019s the Fifties, in case your math is shaky. But here he is in the Twenties, still on top of his game.\u00a0Dungeon Lane<\/em>\u00a0has maybe two or three subpar songs, out of fourteen \u2014 if Drake could make an album with this kind of hit-to-miss ratio, he\u2019d really have more slaps than the\u00a0Beatles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macca\u2019s past two decades have been a golden age, ever since his 2005 resurgence\u00a0Chaos and Creation in the Backyard<\/em>. \u201cFirst Star of the Night\u201d is a love ballad that makes eighty-something romance sound like heaven on earth. It fits with \u201cThe Kiss of Venus\u201d from 2020, or \u201cVenus and Mars\u201d from 1974 \u2014 Macca can\u2019t miss when he\u2019s in in stargazing mode. \u201cMountain Top\u201d and \u201cLost Horizon\u201d are seductive psychedelic trips that he turns into love songs, because, well, he\u2019s Paul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also sings about looking back on the Beatles, as all four of these lads loved to do any time they visited the studio. Between the solo careers of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, they\u2019ve got more \u201cremember when we were the Beatles?\u201d songs than actual Beatles songs. \u201cHome To Us\u201d and \u201cWe Two\u201d revisit Liverpool with Ringo; \u201cDays We Left Behind\u201d and the great \u201cDown South\u201d celebrate early days with his mates. (Fact: No other bands do this! Mick Jagger would rather let Keith shave his testicles blindfolded than sing about how much fun they had with Brian Jones.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d is an alternate timeline where Eleanor Rigby finally got the wedding she wanted, though it\u2019s not like her dreams, but she\u2019s holding on. McCartney refuses to let you hear any irony in here, because there isn\u2019t any. He won\u2019t condescend to her, won\u2019t pity her, and won\u2019t allow you to, either. He refuses to turn this into a sad song. (He could have done that easily if he wanted \u2014 he\u2019s not bad at it.) But he sees her day-to-day struggle as a noble stand against the world, keeping her \u201cheart and soul\u201d\u00a0alive.Sixty\u00a0years on, \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d is a song that everybody knows, but it keeps getting more mysterious with time. Let\u2019s say it again: Paul was 24 when he wrote it. Sorry, that\u2019s just absurd. He was a Beatle, the prettiest boy alive, the world\u2019s most glam pop star. Swinging London was his playground, full of parties and exhibits and nightclubs. But he couldn\u2019t stop thinking about weary, lonely Eleanor, lurking in the back of a church, picking up rice. (What an image for a 24-year-old boy.) Not even the priest notices her. But he gave this outcast one of his most beautiful melodies, inspiring George Martin\u2019s innovative string arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his\u00a0Lyrics<\/em>\u00a0book, there\u2019s a snapshot he took in 1966, looking out the window of the room where he lived, upstairs in the attic of his girlfriend Jane Asher\u2019s parents\u2019 house. You see that view, and you picture Paul looking out at a city of excitement. But he gazed out that window, and saw all the lonely people. He wrote \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d in that room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he\u2019s always been fascinated by this heroine\u2019s story. He\u2019s followed her through the decades, from \u201cTreat Her Gently\/Lonely Old People\u201d to \u201cJunk\u201d to \u201cLittle Willow.\u201d His first solo single was \u201cAnother Day,\u201d in 1971: a day in the life of an ordinary office clerk, with work to do, but struggling to keep her hopes and dreams alive. Nobody else would have noticed her, much less written her a song. \u201cI suppose, basically, it\u2019s because I\u2019m a voyeur,\u201d Paul\u00a0told me in 2021. \u201cObserving a woman rather than just being with her, thinking, \u2018Oh, I\u00a0love<\/em>\u00a0that.\u2019 Drinking a cup of coffee, going to the office with her papers, all that \u2014 following her through her day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d celebrates the values he revered in the elder generation. But he didn\u2019t just pay lip service to those values. In the 1970s, when every other English rock star, including his fellow Fabs, was getting lost in the fleshpots of Hollywood, chasing sex and drugs and Brandy Alexanders, Paul was up on the farm with Linda, way out in Scotland, raising an armful of kids. He was digging drains and feeding chickens and making sure the roof didn\u2019t leak. He was literally fixing the holes where the rain got in. It stopped his mind from wandering.
\"Paul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the Beatle who had no use for the generational warfare of their time, even putting his dad\u2019s hero Fred Astaire on the cover of\u00a0Sgt. Pepper<\/em>\u00a0in 1967. In \u201cWhen I\u2019m 64,\u201d Paul and John play the aging couple, wonderfully playing their voices off each other to boast, \u201cWe shall scrimp and save!<\/em>\u201d These two, honestly \u2014 already planning to be a crotchety elderly married couple, when they were still two cocky young lads on top of the world. They deserved so much more time to get old together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone who hears \u201cnostalgia\u201d on\u00a0Dungeon Lane<\/em>\u00a0is doing better than me \u2014 he\u2019s singing about bombs falling in World War II, food rations, hard labor, sickness, poverty, the bad old days. He was from an immigrant family, of course \u2014 his mother\u2019s father was from Ireland, and the Beatles came straight from Liverpool\u2019s Irish-immigrant culture. \u201cSalesman Saint\u201d and \u201cLife Can Get Hard\u201d are warmly vivid tales of his parents and their generation, struggling in bleak times.\u00a0He\u2019s never let the world forget about his Mother Mary, a nurse and midwife in the toughest part of Liverpool. She died from cancer when he was a child, but he made sure the whole world knew her name, and thanks to \u201cLet It Be,\u201d the world does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That has to be part of his fascination with senior women \u2014 the kind Mary McCartney never got a chance to be.\u00a0It\u2019s also why he\u2019s always been obsessed with old-time romantic ballads, the kind his dad Jim loved to play on piano \u2014 the slow dances that his folks never got to share in old age. (Have you listened to \u201cBaby\u2019s Request\u201d lately? From\u00a0Back to the Egg<\/em>, the final Wings album? Do yourself a big favor this weekend.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the heroine of \u201cMomma Gets By\u201d has always been at the heart of Paul McCartney\u2019s music, across his whole life. She could be the muse of \u201cAnother Day\u201d or \u201cBlackbird,\u201d or she could be \u201cJenny Wren,\u201d the star of the greatest song he\u2019s written in this century. Despite her broken heart, at the end, he vows, \u201cThe day will come when Jenny Wren will sing!\u201d This song ends the same way \u2014 nobody notices her quiet everyday heroism, but nothing can quench her spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of you aren\u2019t ready for this conversation, but McCartney\u2019s past two decades have been the most glorious creative roll of his post-Beatles life. Like, he\u2019s making his best post-Abbey Road<\/em>\u00a0music right\u00a0now<\/em>.\u00a0Chaos and Creation<\/em>\u00a0did for him in 2005 what\u00a0Time Out of Mind<\/em>\u00a0did for Bob Dylan in 1997 \u2014 he found his authentic old-man voice, and hasn\u2019t made an unworthy album since. (Let me assure you, nobody in the Eighties would have predicted a future like this \u2014 Dylan and McCartney both making stellar records every few years? We would have\u00a0killed<\/em>\u00a0for just one of these.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is still scrambling to catch up with all the lost treasures that Sir Paul scattered way back in the 1970s \u2014 see his\u00a0recent Wings memoir,\u00a0or Morgan Neville\u2019s delightful doc\u00a0Man on the Run<\/em>. But why wait? The fact that Paul McCartney is still giving us songs as powerful as \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d nearly seventy years after he took up his guitar and started, is a reason to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMomma gets by while Papa gets high,\u201d\u00a0Paul McCartney\u00a0sings at the end of his superb new album,\u00a0The Boys of…\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-musician"],"yoast_head":"\n\u00a0\u201cMOMMA GETS BY WHILE PAPA GETS HIGH\u2026\u201d \u2014 AT 84, PAUL McCARTNEY MAY HAVE JUST WRITTEN HIS MOST HEARTBREAKING TRIBUTE YET For decades, Paul McCartney has filled his songs with characters the world often overlooks. 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