Artist: Mick
Jagger & Dave Stewart Composers: Mick
Jagger & Dave Stewart First release: Music
from the Motion Picture Alfie album, October 2004 Recording date: April-May
2004Recording location: Abbey
Road Studios, London, England Producers: Mick
Jagger & Dave
Stewart
Chief engineer:
David
Tickle Mixer:
Bob
Clearmountain
Line-up:
Drums: Chris
Sharrock Bass: Yolanda
Charles Acoustic & rhythm electric guitars: Mick
Jagger & Ally McErlaine Lead electric guitars: Dave
Stewart Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger Backing vocals: Mick
Jagger, Katy Perry, Kaya Jones & Royce Nelson Keyboards: Mike
Rowe Programming: Ned
Douglas
I thought I shook myself free
You see I bounce back quicker than most
But I'm half delirious, it's too mysterious
You walk through my walls like a ghost
And I take every day at a time
I'm proud as a lion in his lair
Now there's no denying it, no decrying it
You're all tangled up in my hair
Old habits die hard
Old soldiers just fade away
Old habits die hard
Harder than November rain
Old habits die hard
And old soldiers just fade away
Old habits die hard
Hard enough to feel the pain
We haven't spoken in months
You see I've been counting the days
I dream of such inanities, such insanities
I'm lost like a kid in a maze
But I've never taken your calls
You see I put the block on my phone
I act like an addict, I just got to have it
I never can leave it alone
Yeah, old habits die hard
Old soldiers just fade away
Old habits die hard
And harder than November rain
Old habits die hard
Old soldiers just fade away
Old habits die hard
Hard enough to feel the pain
Mm mm mm, mm mm mm
Mm, and I can't give you up
Can't leave you alone
And it's so hard, so hard
And it's hard enough to feel the pain
(Old habits die hard)
Old habits die hard
Old habits die hard
And harder than November rain
Old habits die hard
Mm, old soldiers just fade away
Old habits die hard
And hard enough to feel the pain
Mm mm mm mm mm mm Old habits die hard
Ohh...
Old soldiers just fade away
TrackTalk
Doing a soundtrack, you don't have this
complete
freedom to write. You have to write a specific song around a specific
character
and enhance a specific scene. So it's very disciplined in that way...
You
have to look at other scenes and make these songs work in other scenes.
For example, one of the lead songs on Alfie is Old Habits
Die
Hard, which is a rather happy-go-lucky tune when you first hear it.
But when you put it in another scene and slow it down and take out some
instrumentation, it becomes a much more romantic or sadder tune than it
initially appears.
