In this ever changing world in which we live in

[james_davis_nicoll]

Some old files still survive.

Comments

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

"But if this ever-changing world in which we're livin'
makes you give up and cry..."

Sorry, I just couldn't let that egregious misquote (fitting though it is) go without commentary.
"Say Live and Let Die"!

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

For the first time in decades, that song now makes more sense.

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

The internet now makes me doubt myself.

Even if his sir-ness didn't write it that way, he bloody well should've! :)

[bugsybanana.livejournal.com]

I always thought James's version is what McCartney is singing, regardless of what he wrote.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

As I recall, Sir Paul has in the past admitted to writing "in this world in which we live in" and has subsequently sung it without the final "in", thereby mucking up the metre or scansion or that thing I don't know the term for.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I'm such a Bond geek, I filled in the piano glissando and the axe power-chords mentally in the appropriate places above. *hangdog droop*

-- Steve used to have the movie themes on cassette in his student days, until said cassette (among others) ended up in the back window of the car during a summer move...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Fell to the pavement or overheated to the point of dropping the recording from the tape?

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

It achieved Nirvana and became One with everything; the tape surpassed mere de-Gaussing and actually welding itself into a sorta-cylindrical blob inside the cassette.

-- Steve will add that a couple-dozen other tapes suffered the same fate; the plastic keeper case of cassettes bubbled up into the sunlight after a fury of hasty packing. The keeper didn't melt or fuse itself but instead became fantastically brittle... the folks didn't appreciate having to vacuum the resulting spallation shards out of the upholstery.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

That's retconning, done by Sir Paul to cover up his embarrassment. Listen to it--they're definitely singing "In this ever changing world in which we live in."

[avram]

I'd always heard it that way myself -- and I'm glad to learn I'm not alone in that regard -- but the surrounding lyrics imply the other reading: "But in this ever-changing world in which we live in makes you give it a try" just plain doesn't make sense.