Dancing in the Starlight

Composers: Mick Jagger & Matt Clifford
Recording date: May-June 2001
Recording locations: Third Stone Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Marti Frederiksen & Mick Jagger        Chief engineer: Rich Chycki
Mixer: Tom Lord-Alge


Line-up:

Drums: Kenny Aronoff
Keyboards bass: Matt Clifford
Acoustic guitar: Marti Frederiksen
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger, Marti Frederiksen & Milton McDonald
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Matt Clifford, Marti Frederiksen & Ruby Turner
Rhodes piano: Matt Clifford
B3 organ: Matt Clifford
Percussion: Lenny Castro
Strings (arranged by): Matt Clifford
 

I was tossing and a-turning
Like a ship out in a storm
And I could not feel the spirit
There was nothing there at all

And I could not dial the number
And I could not make the call

Dancing in the starlight
Dancing in the strangest forms
And I could not feel the spirit
Was a thousand miles off course

Stumbling in the twilight
There was no one there at all
I was groping in the darkness
Seeing dangers in the port

Yeah, tortured into silence
My back against the wall

Dancing in the starlight
Swirling in the walls
Just like Venus on the ocean
The figures on the wall

Yeah

Doo doo doo doo doo-doo

Doo doo doo doo doo-doo

Doo doo doo doo doo-doo


If you don't take risks, if you don't take a chance
You're bound to fall - oh yeah, sugar, yeah

You will surely fall - oh yeah, surely fall

Crying for salvation
There was nothing there at all
I could not dial the number
And I could not make the call

Dancing in the starlight
The figures on the wall


(You will surely fall)  Dancing in the starlight

(You will surely fall)  Oh come on, baby
(You will surely fall)  Surely fall, oh yeah, oh yeah
(You will surely fall)  Dancing in the starlight, come on and...
(You will surely fall)


 

TrackTalk

It's simply based on lying on the beach on a starry night, watching the stars reflecting on the water.

- Mick Jagger, 2001


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