Sing it! Paul McCartney could only tell Nancy he loved her in a song

 
Agency10 October 2013
The Weekender

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Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that when he started dating the woman who is now his wife, he was too timid to say those three little words.

The legendary former Beatle admitted he was a little shy when he first started seeing Nancy Shevell in 2007 and only plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt in a song.

He told The Sun: "It can be quite hard to say 'I love you' to someone. I felt this with Nancy but to say it wasn't that easy."

The resulting track is included as a hidden song on Paul's latest album, New, and features the lines: "I'm scared to say I love you / Afraid to let you know / That the simplest of words / Won't come out of my mouth / Though I'm dying to let them go / Trying to let you know."

McCartney, 71, eventually married Ms Shevell, a US businesswoman, in London in 2011, and also wrote the song My Valentine about her.

Elsewhere on New, McCartney takes on more lighthearted subject matter, with On My Way To Work describing how he used to looking at nude girls in magazines while on the bus.

He explained: "It's about me going to my first job, before The Beatles took off, which was working on a lorry for a delivery company called Speedy Prompt Deliveries, SPD.

"I'd go on the bus to work at some unearthly hour of the morning. I might buy a magazine and look at the nudies. I was too young to be interested in the news."

New is released on October 14.

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