“Days We Left Behind” is the first single from Paul McCartney’s solo album “The Boys of Dungeon Lane”. The song was released on the 26th of March, 2026, and premiered on BBC Radio Merseyside. The album was his first new music in over five years.
Paul McCartney said of “Days We Left Behind” in a statement,
“This is very much a memory song for me. I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John [Lennon] and Forthlin Road, which is the street I used to live in. […] We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”
“Days We Left Behind”
Looking back at white and black
Reminders of my past
Smoky bars and cheap guitars
But nothing built to last
Nothing ever stays
Nothing comes to mind
No-one can erase
The days we left behind
See the boys of Dungeon Lane
Along the Mersey shore
Some of them will feel the pain
But some were meant for more
Nothing stays the same
No-one needs to cry
Nothing can reclaim
The days we left behind
We met at Forthlin Road
And wrote a secret code
To never be spoken
I stand by what I said
The promise that I made
Will never be broken
Nothing ever stays
Nothing comes to mind
No-one can erase
The days we left behind
In the skies the skylarks rise
Above the sounds of war
Since that day I knew they’d stay
With me for evermore
‘Cause nothing stays the same
And no-one needs to cry
No-one is to blame
For the days we left behind
The days we left behind
