Time Is On My Side
(version 2)

Composer: Norman Meade        Original performer: Irma Thomas (1964)
First release: UK LP The Rolling Stones No. 2, January 1965       First US release: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), 1966
Recording date: November 1964        Recording location: Chess Studios, Chicago, USA
Producer: Andrew Oldham           Engineer: Ron Malo
Performed onstage: 
1964-66, 1981-82, 1998

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Keith Richards (incl. solo) & Brian Jones
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Organ: Ian Stewart
Tambourine: Mick Jagger
 

Time is on my side
Yes it is
Time is on my side
Yes it is

Now you always say
That you want to be free

But you'll come running back - I said you would, baby
You'll come running back - like I told you so many times before
You'll come running back to me

Yes, time is on my side
Yes it is
Time is on my side
Yes it is

You're searching for good times
But just wait and see

You'll come running back - I said you would darling
You'll come running back - I'll spend the rest of my life with you, baby
You'll come running back to me

Go ahead, baby, go ahead, go ahead and light up the town
And, baby, do everything your heart desires - remember, I will always be around
And I know, I know like I told you so many times before you're going to come back
Yeah you're going to be coming back, baby, knocking, yeah, knocking right on my door, yeah, yeah, yeah

Time is on my side
Yes it is
Time is on my side
Yes it is

Cause I've got the real love
The kind that you need

You'll come running back - I said you would some day
You'll come running back - like I told you before
You'll come running back
To me

Yes, time, time, time is on my side
Yes it is
Yes, time, time, time is on my side
Yes it is
Yes, time, time, time is on my side

 
 

TrackTalk

In America we were basically known for heavy, slowish kind of ballads. Time Is On My Side, Tell Me, Heart of Stone, that was what we were known for. Strangely enough that was our thing. Every single was a slow song. Who would believe it? You'd think they'd be clamoring for out-and-out rock and roll, but no, it was the fuckin' soul ballads that happened for us in America.

  - Keith Richards, c. 1979



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