Wandering
Spirit
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Jimmy Rip
Recording date: January-September
1992
Recording locations: S.I.R.
Studios & Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers:
Rick Rubin & Mick Jagger Chief
engineer: David Bianco
Probable line-up:
Drums: Curt Bisquera
Bass: John Pierce
Electric guitars:
Jimmy Rip, Mick Jagger & Frank Simes
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Lynn
Davis, Jean McClain & Jeff Pescetto
Organ: Billy
Preston
Handclaps: Mick
Jagger & Jimmy Rip
When all the twelve Apostles try to ring me
on the phone
Take a message but I won't return their call
For I have no eyes to see Him and I thought
I lost my way
And I know I've lost the keys to your door
Well
Ah-ha
And I climbed the highest mountain and I looked
down on the sea
And I saw a ship a-sailing to the shore
I took a passage to the East and I journeyed
to the West
I made love from Battambang to Baltimore
I said, oh, am I running in a race?
I said, oh, am I getting any place?
I said, oh, can I make it?
I'm a wandering spirit - oh yes
Wandering spirit - yes now
(Wandering spirit) Yes I am a restless soul
Wandering spirit - there's no place that I
can call my own
Mm yeah
Oh yes
I was a glutton at the banquet and I spilt
the finest wine
Trod the pyramids and ruins of Angkor
And I kissed the Mona Lisa and I breakfasted
with kings
And I touched the nerves of nature in the
raw
I said, oh, am I running in a race?
I said, take
that smile right off your face
I said, oh, I can't make it
I'm a wandering spirit - oh yes
Wandering spirit - oh yeah
(Wandering spirit) No escape and no parole
(Wandering spirit) Oh yeah, oh yeah
Wandering spirit - ah, ah
(Wandering spirit) There's no place that I
can call my own
I said, oh, am I running in a race?
I said, oh, am I getting any place?
I said, oh, can I make it?
I'm a wandering spirit - oh yes
Wandering spirit
(Wandering spirit) Looking for a place to go
(Wandering spirit) Oh yeah, oh yeah
Wandering spirit - yeah well, whoa
Wandering spirit - whoa
(Wandering spirit) No escape and no parole
(Wandering spirit) I'm a lost and lonely soul
Mm mm-mm
Mm mm mm
Mmm
Mm-mm mm mm-mm mm
Mm-mm mm mm-mm mm
Mmm
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Mm mm - mm mm mm...
TrackTalk
(I)t's a combination (of styles). It starts out
like an old rockabilly thing and then goes into a gospel chorus, which
makes it different, I guess.
-
Mick Jagger, December 1992
(I Just
Want to See His Face) is a bit similar to the Wandering Spirit
tune. It's not so much tongue-in-cheek, but it's a little irreverent. It's
not paint by numbers... It's good if it's both (sincere and tongue-in-cheek),
because if it's all a parody the listener doesn't ever take it seriously,
and that's not how it's intended.
-
Mick Jagger, December 1992
Back to Glimmer Twins
TrackTalk Menu.
Back to Wandering Spirit.
Back to Main Page.