Already Over Me

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: March-July 1997
Recording location: Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don Was & The Glimmer Twins       Chief engineers: John X Volaitis & Dan Bosworth
Mixer: Bob Clearmountain       Performed onstage: 1998

Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Don Was
Acoustic guitar: Mick Jagger
Slide Dobro acoustic guitar: Ron Wood
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Keith Richards, Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin
Piano: Blondie Chaplin
Organ: Benmont Tench
Keyboards: Benmont Tench
Bucket: Kenny Aronoff
Percussion: Jim Keltner
 

As you poured out the drinks for me
I felt your hooks sink right into me
And I knew you were my destiny
And I thought you'd get the best of me

On the way down to Mexico
As I danced in your rodeo
You say poverty is picturesque
As you drag your nails across my chest

You're so cold, you're so cruel
I'm your man, not your fool

Are you already over me?
Are you already over me?
Are you already over me?

 What a fool I've been

In the first flush of ecstasy
As you lay naked next to me
While our love put the dawn to flight
I just ignored all those warning lights

Cause when you laugh, I just cry
And when you left, I just died

Are you already over me?
Are you already over me?
Are you already sick of me?

 What a fool I've been
 What a fool I've been

Mmm, hard to hold on to a love divine - ah yeah
I'm kneeling in a corner, praying to your shrine - ah yeah

Ah...

And I'm so hurt, so confused
And I've been burned and I've been bruised

 Are you already over me?
Are you already over me?
Are you already sick of me?
Are you already over me?
Are you, are you already over me?
Are you already tired of me?
Are you already over me?

 What a fool I've been
 What a fool I've been
 What a fool I've been
 What a fool I've been
 

 

TrackTalk

The Babyface track didn't end up getting used. I think Mick didn't like where it went with the overdubs and just the way Babyface envisioned it, and Babyface I guess really felt very strongly about his opinion, so they just decided not to use it.

- Rob Fraboni, 1997


That's the song that I tried with Babyface, because he really liked the song. One morning he came over to see me... I had just got up and I was a bit bleary-eyed, to be honest, and I was fed up talking about making records. I said, Well, I haven't got any demos with me but if you wanna hear songs I can just play it to you. I just sort of sat in my dressing gown and he laughed. He was really genuinely nice about it. We went on to make the track and it really didn't suit the song, so we went back and just did it in this very traditional method, which I think really suits it. Even though..., you know, I like to do things and trying to do things differently. I realized that it didn't WORK.

- Mick Jagger, 1997


It was like a Babyface ballad put on top of Wild Horses. It wasn't going to fly as the Rolling Stones.

- Don Was, July 1997


It was really my fault - I threw the wrong song at him. We went in and wrote the loops and the programs. We got Charlie to play on it. And in the end, I didn't like the way it was looped. I said, Kenny, leave it. I'm gonna do it another way.

- Mick Jagger, July 1997


Ronnie is a really versatile and creative musician. He brings so much color to the record just in terms of picking up the mood of a song and then finding a texture from the various instruments that he's proficient on. He played some beautiful dobro stuff and this kind of moody David Lynch-like guitar line on the chorus to Already Over Me.

- Don Was, 1997


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