God Gave Me Everything

Composers: Mick Jagger & Lenny Kravitz
Recording date: April 2001
Recording location: Roxie Studios, Miami, Florida, USA
Producer: Lenny Kravitz           Chief engineer: Henry Hirsch
Mixers: Henry Hirsch & Lenny Kravitz



Line-up:

Drums: Lenny Kravitz
Bass: Lenny Kravitz
Acoustic 12-string guitar: Craig Ross
Electric guitars: Lenny Kravitz
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Lenny Kravitz
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Tambourine: Lenny Kravitz
Protools: Matt Knobel

 

You can see it in a clear blue sky
You can see it in a woman's eyes
You can hear it in your baby's cries
You can hear it in your lover's sighs

You can touch it in a grain of sand
Yeah, hold it right there in the palm of your hand
Feel it around you everyday
And hear what I've got to say, yeah

God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you
God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you

And I saw it in the midnight sun
And I felt it in the race I won
And I hear it in the windy storm
And I feel it in the icy dawn

And I smell it in the wine I taste
And I see it in my father's face
And I hear it in a symphony
And I feel it in the love you show for me, yeah

God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you
God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you

God gave me everything I want
I can't stop, can't stop, I'm still looking now
God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you

Crazy, you said
It's all in your head

God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you
God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you

God gave me everything I want
I can't stop, can't stop, I'm still looking now
God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you

God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you
God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you

God gave me everything I want
I can't stop, can't stop, can't stop, can't stop, yeah
God gave me everything I want
Ah come on, I'll give it all to you


 

TrackTalk

I wrote this song with Lenny Kravitz. He did all the harmonic parts and then we finished the choruses together. I said to him, Do you have any ideas for the lyrics? and he said Absolutely none. So I hid myself in a corner of this kind of Clockwork Orange house Lenny has in Miami and wrote the lyrics in ten minutes.

- Mick Jagger, 2001

We wrote the song together. I started it and then he did the lyrics. He came to my place, in Miami at the time where I was living, and we wrote the track. And I produced it... I did the song a couple of nights before he showed up - the track, cut the whole track. Had the melody. And when he came, I did the bla bla bla bla bla bla thing, sang him the melody, and then he said, OK, give me a minute. He took a pad and a pen. He went into my little den area, sat for about 45 minutes, came back with the lyrics, went in and sang it, just like that.

- Lenny Kravitz, 2022




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