Don't Call Me Up

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


Line-up:

Drums: Jim Keltner
Bass: Cris Frederiksen
Acoustic guitar: Marti Frederiksen
Electric guitar: Marti Frederiksen
Slide electric guitar: Mick Jagger
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Marti Frederiksen
Piano: Matt Clifford
B3 organ: Matt Clifford
Cello-mandolin: Steve Knightley
Percussion: Lenny Castro
Strings (arranged by): Matt Clifford & Marti Frederiksen
 

I was trying to forget you
But you won't tell me how
Lately I'm finding it tricky
With your picture plastered all over town

Friends pick you up in conversation, mm-mm
Just to see how I'll react
I get these internal lacerations
That jack me up and lay me out flat

But I can't throw my life away
I can't give the game away
You just wandered off the stage
And left me dealing with the pain

So don't call me up when you want to cry
'Cause I might let you down
Don't call me up on some rainy night
'Cause I might let you down
Let you down

People ask Have you seen her?
I say Not for a while
I'm going to see my girlfriend way down in Argentina
We're going to have a blast for a while

But I see you in my inner eye
Touch me with a gentle smile
Wonder if you catch my mood
Can you feel my solitude?

Don't call me up when you want to cry
'Cause I might let you down    (might let you down)
Don't call me up when some other guy
Hangs your heartstrings out to dry

As the waves crash around
And the stars hit the ground
I'll be out of my mind once again

As the rain lashes down
And the stars can't be found

I will hold my head high
And just gaze at the sky
I was under your spell
You took me to hell

Don't call me up if you want to cry
'Cause I might let you down    (might let you down)
Don't call me up if you want some lie
'Cause I might let you down

Might let you down - might let you down
Might let you down

Might let you down
Might let you down, yes

Yeah, I was trying, I was trying to forget you
Yeah but you won't tell me how   (won't tell me how)
Now you're out all over town
Ah you're plastered all over town   (all over town)

 
 

TrackTalk

This is the oldest track of the album. I wrote it sometime during the Stones' last tour. A sad song, and quite romantic as well.

- Mick Jagger, 2001


Funnily enough, that one isn't (about Jerry Hall). It could be. But it isn't... It is written about someone in particular, but I'm not telling you who it is.

- Mick Jagger, November 2001

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