Composer: Mick
Jagger
First release: Goddess
In The Doorway album Japan extra track, November 2001
Recording date: May
2000 & June-July 2001
Recording locations: Norfolk
Lodge, Richmond, Surrey & Metropolis Studios, London, England
Producer: Mick
Jagger & Matt Clifford
Chief engineer:
Max
Heyes
Line-up:
Drums: Ian
Thomas
Bass: Phil Spalding
Electric guitars: Mick
Jagger & Steve Knightley
Electric guitars: Mick
Jagger & Mick Dolan
Pedal steel guitar: Matt
Clifford
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Keyboards: Matt
Clifford
B3 organ: Matt
Clifford
Cello-mandolin: Steve
Knightley
Percussion: Matt
Clifford
If things had been different
If only you'd give one more twist of the key
If things would be different
A change in the numbers
If only that message could just be retrieved
If things would be different
If life could be permanent
You'd be a goddess carved on a frieze
If things could be different
You would be sharing your whole life with
me
I saw it all, I saw it from afar
I saw it all, I saw it in the stars
I saw it all, I saw it much too late
Coincidence and fate
If things had been different
If only your finger had not pushed delete
I would not be walking down
Down this lonely street
'Cause if things had been different
If only my whole life could be just re-dreamed
'Cause I was born way too soon
Born on the other side of the seas
And if things had been different
We'd spend the fourth of July on the beach
And if things had been different
All of your children would look just like
me
I saw it all, I saw it from afar
I saw it all, I saw it from the stars
I saw it all, I saw it much too late
I saw it all, the fingerprints of fate