Composers:Mick Jagger & Keith Richards Recording date: November-December 2004, March-April
& June 2005 Recording locations:La
Fourchette, Posé sur Cisse, France & Ocean Way Recording Studios,
Los Angeles, USA Producers:Don
Was& The Glimmer
TwinsCo-producers:Don
Was,Matt Clifford& The Glimmer Twins Chief
engineer:Krish
SharmaMixer:Jack
Joseph Puig Performed onstage:2006-07, 2014
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts Bass: Darryl
Jones Acoustic
guitar:
Mick Jagger Electric
guitars: Keith
Richards & Ron Wood (incl. solo) Pianos:Matt
Clifford&Chuck
Leavell Organs:Matt
Clifford&Chuck
Leavell Vocals: Mick
Jagger Strings:Matt
Clifford Programming:Matt
Clifford
You're
awful bright, you're awful smart
I must admit you broke my heart
The awful truth, it's really sad
I must admit I was awful bad
While lovers laugh and music plays
I stumble by and I hide my pain Mmm, the lights are lit, the moon is gone
I think I've crossed the Rubicon
And I, I walk the streets of love
And they're full of tears
And I, I walk the streets of love
And they're full of fears
While music pumps from passing cars
A couple watch me from a bar
A band just played the wedding march
And the corner store mends broken hearts
And a woman asks me for a dance
Oh it's free of charge, just one more chance
Oh I, I walk the streets of love
And they're full of tears
And I, I walk the streets of love
For a thousand years
Oh tell me now - I, I'll walk the streets of love
Yeah and they're drenched with teara - oh
You had the moves, you had the cards
I must admit you were awful smart
The awful truth is awful sad
I must admit I was awful bad
And I, I walk the streets of love
And they're drenched with tears
And I, I walk the streets of love
For a thousand years - oh
I, I walk the streets of love
And they're drenched with tears Oh baby (I, I)
Oh there's only one - and I look like him
I, I walk the streets of love
And they're drenched with tears Oh baby (I, I)
Oh there's only one and I look for him
Oh I... (I, I)
Yeah, and they're full of tears
Oh everybody talk about it, everybody be walking down it (I, I)
Yeah but I found out, oh yes that I...
Oh yes I do (I, I)
Oh the streets of love, yeah, they're drenched with, they're drenched in
tears
I... (I, I)
Oh, yeah, come on give it to me now
Tell me now, oh (I, I)
TrackTalk
It's a Mick tour de force, in a way.
But we all
really enjoy playing it. When we first knocked it out on acoustic, we
felt,
Oh,
that's nice, but it sounded kind of standard. So then Mick and I
were
saying, It's the dynamics that count. You gotta take it up and down.
-
Keith Richards, July 2005
(T)here's... stuff
like Streets of Love
which is perhaps more serious and it doesn't have any levity. It's kind
of quite a dark piece.
-
Mick Jagger, July 2005
Mick sometimes
goes into a mode, and
you're like, Is that you? Are you trying to be somebody else? Sometimes
you have to figure that out. Yes, it is manneristic at times, but other
times he's so fucking loose and cool...