Goddess in the Doorway

Composers: Mick Jagger & Matt Clifford
Recording date: June-July 2001
Recording location: Metropolis Studios, London, England
Producers: Matt Clifford & Mick Jagger        Chief engineer: Max Heyes
Mixer: Jack Joseph Puig


Line-up:

Drums: Ian Thomas
Bass: Phil Spalding
Acoustic guitars: Mick Jagger
Electric guitar: Mick Jagger
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Tatiana Okou
Keyboards: Matt Clifford
Mellotron strings: Matt Clifford
Cello-mandolin: Steve Knightley
Drum programming: Matt Clifford & Max Heyes
Percussion: Paul Clarvis
 

Demons in the bedroom, dogs are on the roof
I am in the basement looking for the truth
Tired of being patient for the voice to come
If you want the answer, there is only one
Only one   (The only one)

Her flesh is smooth and supple and velvet as the night
Her eyes are shot with diamonds, a mouth full of delight

There's a goddess in the doorway
Asking how much, how much can I take
And it looks like she's heading my way
There's a goddess in the doorway

(The only one - yeah)

Demons in the bedroom, dogs are on the loose
Driving in the backstreets looking for the truth
I'm searching for your temple, hunting for your shrine
I'm looking for a vision by a neon sign

 There's a goddess in the doorway
Asking how much, how much can I take
And it looks like she's heading my way
There's a goddess in the doorway - oh yeah

(The only one)

And her tears flow like a fountain
Like a river from the mountain

How much?
How much... mmm can I take?
How much, how much can I take?

 There's a goddess in the doorway
Asking how much, how much can I take
And it looks like she's heading my way
There's a goddess in the doorway

 (The only one)
 (The only one)  How much, how much can I take?
(There's a goddess)  In the doorway 
(There's a goddess in the doorway)  Asking how much, how much
(There's a goddess in the doorway)  How much can I take?
 

 

TrackTalk

I went out dancing and, as I was driving back home, I had this groove in my head. Eventually it ended up being a very different thing. It's a good synthesis for the album: it started out as a disco/dance song, then it ended up being something with a Central Asian taste.

- Mick Jagger, 2001


Goddess in the Doorway is really representative of love generally - that one's not about one particular person. (It's) about the elusive nature of love. It can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone. And it sort of can be a metaphor for more than just love, or women, or love of women.

- Mick Jagger, October 2001

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