Composers: Mick
Jagger & Matt Clifford
Recording date: February
2000 & May-June 2001
Recording locations: Twin
Studios, Paris, France & Third Stone Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers:
Marti Frederiksen & Mick Jagger
Chief engineer: Rich Chycki
Mixer: Tom
Lord-Alge
Line-up:
Drums: Kenny
Aronoff
Keyboards bass: Matt
Clifford
Acoustic guitar: Marti
Frederiksen
Electric guitars: Mick
Jagger, Marti Frederiksen & Milton McDonald
Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger, Matt Clifford, Marti Frederiksen & Ruby Turner
Rhodes piano: Matt
Clifford
B3 organ: Matt
Clifford
Percussion: Lenny
Castro
Strings (arranged by): Matt
Clifford
I was tossing and a-turning
Like a ship out in a storm
And I could not feel the spirit
There was nothing there at all
And I could not dial the number
And I could not make the call
Dancing in the starlight
Dancing in the strangest forms
And I could not feel the spirit
Was a thousand miles off course
Stumbling in the twilight
There was no one there at all
I was groping in the darkness
Seeing dangers in the port
Yeah, tortured into silence
My back against the wall
Dancing in the starlight
Swirling in the walls
Just like Venus on the ocean
The figures on the wall
Yeah...
If you don't take risks, if you don't take
a chance
You're bound to fall - oh yeah, sugar
You will surely fall
Crying for salvation
There was nothing there at all
I could not dial the number
And I could not make the call
Dancing in the starlight
The figures on the wall
Dancing in the starlight
Oh come on, baby
Surely fall, oh yeah...
Dancing in the starlight
Come on and...
TrackTalk
It's simply based on lying on the beach on a starry night, watching the stars reflecting on the water.