Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Rhythm electric guitar: Mick Jagger
Lead electric guitar: Mick Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane & Billy Nicholls.
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Strings: (unknown musicians)
 

One, two, three, four

Did you ever wake up to find
A day that broke up your mind
Destroying your notion of circular time?

It's just that demon life has got you in its sway

Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground
For my friends up on the burial ground
Can't stand the feeling, getting so brought down

It's just that demon life has got me in its sway

There must be ways to find out
Love is the way they say is really strutting out

Hey, hey, hey now

One day I woke up to find
Right in the bed next to mine
Someone that broke me up with a corner of her smile, yeah
 
 

TrackTalk

(Y)ou... need two guitars (to play that song) , 'cause you need one guitar in open tuning to play the dah-dum-dah-da. In fact it was Mick Jagger that played rhythm guitar on that track.

On Sway I used the Les Paul; Keith doesn't play on that track. Mick Jagger's playing rhythm guitar... (I played the slide part and the solo) at the same time. I put the slide on my little finger so it would still leave the other 3 fingers free to play like they would regularly, and I switched from one to the other. That was played in regular tuning.

(On Sway Mick plays electric guitar). Yeah... Well, like I say, acoustically he's got a nice touch. It doesn't translate electrically. It's not his thing. It's not everybody's cup of tea... I'd never let him play electric if I could help it. He's like Bob Dylan, same thing. They thrash away at it. No sense of electric at all. Usually I turn him down.

(W)e didn't always get there at the same time. If we felt like playing, we would. That's why on Sway the backing track was done with just Charlie, Mick, and me.

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