Hide Your Love

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: October 1970 & May-June 1973
Recording locations: Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Mick Jagger's home, Newbury, England; Olympic Sound Studios & Island Recording Studios, London, England 
Producer: Jimmy Miller        Chief engineers: Glyn Johns & Andy Johns
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass drum: Jimmy Miller
Bass: Keith Richards
Electric guitar: Mick Taylor
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Piano: Mick Jagger
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
Congas: Rebop
Handclaps: ---
 

Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down
Sometimes I'm falling on the ground

How do you hide?
How do you hide your love?

Now look here, baby, you sure look sweet
In the sleep time, out on the street

Why do you hide?
Why do you hide your love?
Why do you hide, baby, why do you hide your love?
 
All right, boy
Yeah

Oh been a sick man, I want to cry
Lord I'm a drunk man but now I'm dry

How do you hide?
How do you hide your love?

Now look here, baby, you sure look cheap
I make it mama 7 days a week

Why do you hide?
Why do you hide your love?
Why do you hide it, baby, hide from the man that you love?

Come on, man
 
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah

How do you hide?
How do you hide your love?
 
All right

Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
 
Oh baby, I'm reaching, reaching high
Oh yeah, I'm falling out of the sky

Why do you hide?
Hide from the man that you love?
Why do you hide, baby, why do you hide your love?

Oh yeah, oh yeah
Ah yeah, ow yeah

Why do you hide?
Why do you hide your love?
Why do you hide it, baby, hide from the man that you love?
That you love...
 
Well, well, well, well
 
 

TrackTalk

(Mick Jagger) was banging away at the piano and it sounded real cool. Fuck, I'm going to tape this, because we could turn this into something later, you know? I said Come on, man, let's do a whole pass on that, because you can use this. This is a really good vibe.

- Andy Johns


And then, these tracks like Hide Your Love, which at the time I remember thinking, Oh that was a throwaway song. Then you find … my memory was doing it once in Olympic, which I probably did, with me playing piano on it. And I don’t even remember who plays piano on the record... (pauses) This says piano on track seven, and there is no track seven. I’m just looking at it on Wiki. (laughs) My memory was completely wrong.

- Mick Jagger, 2020

I like the blues tune (on that album), Hide Your Love...

- Mick Taylor, 1979


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