Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Acoustic bass: Ron Wood
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Lisa Fischer, Sarah Dash, Bernard Fowler, Tessa Niles & Sonia
    Morgan
Keyboards: Mick Jagger
African-Moroccan instruments: The Master Musicians of Jajouka & Bachir Attar
    Farafina
Percussion programming: Matt Clifford
Percussion (incl. tambourine & bongos): Luis Jardim
 

Love comes at the speed of light
Love comes in a strange disguise

Open the door and let the light pour over
Open the door, don't you keep me out
Open the door and let the light pour over
Hear me shout

It's as pure as silver
It's as pure as gold
It's a rushing river
Let it run all over me

Love comes
Love comes at the speed of light
 
 

TrackTalk

I woke up one morning to find Mick playing this thing on the keyboard (hums the song's riff). And I thought, Ah, that's nice, that reminds me of Morocco.

I was writing this song and remembering (the Master Musicians of Jajouka's) harmonics and thinking wouldn't it be great to have them on the track and this letter arrived (from Bachir Attar). Amazing, eh?

I remember Brian playing (his Moroccan) tapes (in the '60s). We had this engineer we were working with, George Chkiantz, and George was one of the first people to be heavily into phasing, which was like the scratching of the middle '60s. So Brian took all of the Jajouka tapes and put them through phasing, which was really quite before its time. I always felt the Stones were quite adventurous that way.

I made that metallic noise at the beginning of the song with a knife against a bicycle wheel. I supposed you could do it with a spoon. But it wouldn't sound as good as it does with the knife. Kids, don't try this in your own homes; these men are trained professionals.

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