"Live and Let Die" is a song originally performed by Wings, which was written for the soundtrack of the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. The song was one of Wings' most successful singles. Credited to Paul McCartney and his wife Linda, it reunited McCartney with Beatles producer George Martin, who also arranged the orchestral break.
"Live and Let Die" was the first James Bond theme song to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (which gave Paul his second Academy Award nomination and Linda her first), but it lost to the theme song from "The Way We Were".
Lyrics
When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say life and let life
(you know you did, you know you did you know you did)
But in this ever changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die
Live and let die
Live and let die
What does it matter to ya
When you got a job to do
You gotta do it well
You gotta give the other fellow hell
When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say life and let life
(you know you did, you know you did you know you did)
But in this ever changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry