Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
July & October-November 1971 & January-March 1972
Recording locations: Rolling
Stones Mobile Unit, Keith Richards' home, Villefranche-sur-mer,
France & Sunset Sound Studios,
Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Jimmy
Miller Chief
engineers: Glyn
Johns, Andy Johns & Joe
Zagarino
Performed onstage: 1972-73,
1975, 1994-95, 2002-03, 2005-07
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Mick Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Saxophone: Bobby
Keys
Trumpet and/or trombone: Jim
Price
Tambourine: Mick
Jagger
Oh yeah
I hear you talking when I'm on the street
Your mouth don't move but I can hear you speak
What's the matter with the boy?
He don't come around no more
Is he checking out for sure?
Is he going to close the door on me?
And I'm always hearing voices on the street
I want to shout but I can hardly speak
I was making love last night
To a dancer friend of mine
I can't seem to stay in step
Cause she come every time that she pirouettes
over me
And I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming
I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping
I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed
Plug in, flush out and find the fucking feed
Heading for the overload
Splattered on the dusty (dirty) road
Kick me like you've kicked before
I can't even feel the pain no more
Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene
Feel so mesmerized, all that inside...
The sunshine bores the daylights out of me
Chasing shadows, moonlight mystery
Only get them off, get them off
TrackTalk
(Keith phoned me when I got home). Where the fuck are you? Well, you were asleep. I thought I'd go home seeing as it was five in the morning. (Keith said): Oh, man, I've got to do this guitar part. Come back! So I get back, he plugs in his Telecaster, and he does the second rhythm guitar part, and the whole thing just came to light, and really started grooving.