2000 Light Years from Home

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: July-September 1967        Recording location: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
Producers: The Rolling Stones        Chief engineer: Glyn Johns
       Performed onstage: 1989-90, 2013

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Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Mellotron: Brian Jones
Synthesizer: Bill Wyman
Maracas: Mick Jagger
Claves: Eddie Kramer
 

Sun turning round with graceful motion
We're setting off with soft explosion
Bound for a star with fiery ocean

It's so very lonely
You're a hundred light years from home

Freezing red deserts turn to dark
Energy here in every part

It's so very lonely

You're 600 light years from home

It's so very lonely

You're a thousand light years from home

It's so very lonely

You're a thousand light years from home

Bell flight 14, you now can land

See you on Aldebaran
Safe from the green desert sand

It's so very lonely

You're 2000 light years from home

It's so very lonely

You're 2000 light years from home

 
 

TrackTalk

(Brian) was the strings on 2000 Light Years from Home, Brian on mellotron...

- Keith Richards, 1971


2000 Light Years... is my favorite (on the album), but it's lousy in stereo.

- Mick Jagger, 1968



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