Released: November 5, 1990
Songwriter: Paul McCartney
[Chorus 1]
Well, you've got me dancing in a figure of eight
Don't know if I'm coming or going, I'm early or late
Round and round the ring I go
I want to know
I want to know
[Verse 1]
Why can't we travel a continuous line?
Make a love a reliable covenant all the time
Up and down the hills I go
I got to know
I got to know
[Chorus 2]
Is it better to love one another
Than to go for a walk in the dark?
Is it better to love than to give in to hate?
Yeah, we'd better take good care of each other
Avoid slipping back off the straight and narrow
It's better by far than getting stuck in a figure of eight
[Bridge]
Well, figure it out for yourself, little girl
I don't go nowhere at all
It's nothing more than a tape loop in a big dance hall
[Chorus 1]
Well, you've got me dancing in a figure of eight
Don't know if I'm coming or going, I'm early or late
Round and round the ring I go
I want to know
I want to know
[Chorus 2]
Is it better to love one another
Than to go for a walk in the dark?
Is it better to love than to give in to hate?
Yeah, we'd better take good care of each other
Avoid slipping back off the straight and narrow
It's better by far than getting stuck in a figure of eight
Well, you've got me dancing in a figure of eight
Don't know if I'm coming or going, I'm early or late
Round and round the ring I go
I want to know
I want to know
[Verse 1]
Why can't we travel a continuous line?
Make a love a reliable covenant all the time
Up and down the hills I go
I got to know
I got to know
[Chorus 2]
Is it better to love one another
Than to go for a walk in the dark?
Is it better to love than to give in to hate?
Yeah, we'd better take good care of each other
Avoid slipping back off the straight and narrow
It's better by far than getting stuck in a figure of eight
[Bridge]
Well, figure it out for yourself, little girl
I don't go nowhere at all
It's nothing more than a tape loop in a big dance hall
[Chorus 1]
Well, you've got me dancing in a figure of eight
Don't know if I'm coming or going, I'm early or late
Round and round the ring I go
I want to know
I want to know
[Chorus 2]
Is it better to love one another
Than to go for a walk in the dark?
Is it better to love than to give in to hate?
Yeah, we'd better take good care of each other
Avoid slipping back off the straight and narrow
It's better by far than getting stuck in a figure of eight
more tracks from the album
Tripping the Live Fantastic
- Matchbox (Live / 1990)
- Ebony and Ivory (Live / 1989)
- Coming Up (Live / 1990)
- Band on the Run (Live / 1990)
- Live and Let Die (Live / 1989)
- Jet (Live / 1990)
- The Long and Winding Road
- Inner City Madness
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Rough Ride (Live / 1989)
- We Got Married (Live / 1990)
- Maybe I’m Amazed (Live / 1989)
- Crackin’ Up (Live / 1989)
- Ain’t That a Shame (Live / 1990)
- Yesterday (Live / 1990)
- Twenty Flight Rock (Live / 1990)
- Put It There (Live / 1989)
- Got to Get You into My Life (Live / 1989)
- Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Live / 1989)
- Things We Said Today (Live / 1989)
- Together
- Sally (Live / 1990)
- My Brave Face (Live / 1990)
- I Saw Her Standing There (Live / 1989)
- Hey Jude
- Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (Live / 1989)
- The Fool on the Hill
- Let It Be (Live / 1990)
- Get Back
- Eleanor Rigby (Live / 1990)
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- If I Were Not Upon the Stage
- Birthday (Live / 1990)
- Figure of Eight (Live / 1989)
- Showtime
- Back in the U.S.S.R. (Live / 1990)
- This One (Live / 1990)
From the album
- Tripping the Live Fantastic (1990)
Paul McCartney popular songs
- Say Say Say
- Wonderful Christmastime
- Fuh You
- Too Many People
- Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
- Come On to Me
- New
- I Don’t Know
- Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (Live / 1989)
- Junk
- Maybe I’m Amazed
- Monkberry Moon Delight
- Here Today
- Another Day
- My Valentine
- Ebony and Ivory
- The Kiss of Venus
- Dear Boy
- Heart of the Country
- Temporary Secretary
- Happy with You
- Ram On
- 3 Legs
- Who Cares