Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Classical acoustic guitars: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Lisa Fischer, Sarah Dash
    & Bernard Fowler
Keyboards: Chuck Leavell
Keyboards: Matt Clifford
Percussion (incl. tambourine & bongos): Luis Jardim
 

I can almost hear you sigh
I can almost hear you cry
On every crowded street
All the places we would meet

What'll I do without you?
They say life goes on
I'm feeling sorry for myself
I can't believe you're gone

And you acted much too calm
You turned on all the charm
You had a cold look in your eyes

And I feel your tongue on mine
Silky smooth like wine
I'm living with these memories
It's all that's left of you and me

I can almost hear you sigh, almost hear you cry
When you made sweet love to me
And you turned on all the charm, acted much too calm
You had a cold look in your eyes

Did it mean nothing?
Was it all in vain?
Was I just your fool
Or was the pleasure pain?

And have you set me free?
Or will I wake up in the morning
And find out it's been a bad dream?

Come on, I beg you
I want to be your main man

I can almost hear you sigh, almost hear you cry
When you made sweet love to me
I can almost see you smile, it stretched to half a mile
You had a stone cold look in your eyes

Yeah
Come on
Almost see you laugh
I don't need no photograph
Come on, come on, girl
Nothing left to say now
I just can't believe, can't believe you're gone
No, no, come on, baby, yeah
 
 

TrackTalk

There were a couple (of songs) that I'd started working on during my own album. They were embryonic at the time, and since I didn't use them, I said to (Mick), Well, I think there's something here you might like. It was slight recall on Beast of Burden, and I know Mick likes singing that sort of thing. It suits him better than it does me.

When you're playing something like that, the obvious thing you start hitting is the soul licks. When we first did Almost Hear You Sigh, I played it very much like Beast of Burden. In fact, it was TOO much like it, so I called it Cousin of Beast of Burden (laughs) - I don't know if it was going to get any further than a poor relative. But as we started to add the bridge part and it started to open up for me, then I thought to myself exactly what you said - Curtis Mayfield. It's that style. Curtis is the king of that.

The other thing I did this year, I decided I was ready to buy a good classical guitar, a gut-string. I got this Velasquez, a beautiful instrument made in 1956. It's just growing up; it's just 33 (laughs). I started to use that on Steel Wheels. (I played the solo with it on Almost Hear You Sigh). Yeah, we called him Guts.

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