Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Mick Taylor
12-string acoustic guitar: Mick Taylor
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Mick Taylor
Lead electric guitar: Mick Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Backing vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Synthesizer: Bill Wyman
Percussion (incl. maracas & tambourine):Ray Cooper
 

Yes, star crossed in pleasure
Stream flows on by
Yes, as we're sated in leisure
We watch it fly, yes

(And) Time waits for no one (man)
And it (he) won't wait for me

Time can tear down a building
Or destroy a woman's face
Hours are like diamonds
Don't let them waste

And time waits for no one
No favors has he
Time waits for no one
And he won't wait for me

Men, they built hours to their passing, yes
To their fame everlasting
Here he comes chopping and reaping
Hear him laugh at their cheating

Drink in your summer
Gather your corn
The dreams of the night time
Will have vanished by dawn

No, no, no, not for me
No, not for me
 
 

TrackTalk

(Can You Hear the Music? and Time Waits for No One) were my particular riff but got taken up by others in the band. Those songs got turned into something I didn't even imagine. Whereas something like Angie turned out pretty much as I expected.

(We used a guitar synthesizer called a) hi-fly. It's a white flat box that looks like a bathroom scale when you put it on the floor, and you can get a lot of different sounds out of it.

Well, I co-wrote that particular song but I didn't exactly like that (album) much.

I liked (that song) a lot.

The best one (on that album) - for a guitar solo, anyway - is Time Waits for No One, which is the first song we recorded for It's Only Rock 'N Roll. We hadn't seen each other for about 3 months, and it was done in one or two takes. We had done a bit of a layoff because we'd finished an American tour (sic), and everybody went to different parts of the globe and had a rest. I went to Brazil, which is possibly why there is a little Latin influence there.

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