Premiered on Speakeasy two weeks prior to the drop of its album, this melancholy piece details McCartney’s mourning from losing his mother, Linda McCartney, to breast cancer in 1998. As he says to Wall Street Journal:
It’s just a song that was trying to summarize that time after she died, so that k...
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Skinny dip in the moonlight, standing by the stairs
Bitch black with little flicks, moonlight shining in
Looking for scratchy branches through the wilderness
Gotham City
[Pre-Chorus]
She's a goth
Mother is a goth
[Chorus]
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall
[Verse 2]
Taking base speed, pink champagne
Taking ecstasy by the fireplace, making a childhood tent
Then I said, "Maybe I need to do therapy"
God it's so hard to lie
[Pre-Chorus]
She's a goth
My mother is a goth
[Chorus]
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall
[Bridge]
I'm not scared
I'm not scared
I'm not scared
I'm not scared
[Chorus]
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall, waterfall
Waterfall
James McCartney released Waterfall on Thu Apr 21 2016.