Just
My Imagination
(Running
Away with Me)
Composers:
Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong Original
performers: The
Temptations (1971)
Recording date: October-December
1977 & March-April 1978
Recording location: Pathé
Marconi Studios, Paris, France & Atlantic Studios, New York, USA
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins
Chief engineer:
Chris
Kimsey
Performed onstage:
1978-79, 1981-82, 1995, 1997, 1999,
2006, 2013, 2015
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards (incl. solo) & Ron Wood
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Organ: Ian
McLagan
I look out my window, watch her as she passes
by
I say to myself I'm such a lucky guy
To have a girl like her is a dream come true
And of all the girls in New York she loves
me true
But I tell you
It was just my imagination once again
Running away with me
It was just my imagination
Running away with me
Soon we'll be married and raise a family
Two boys for you, what about two girls for
me?
I tell you I'm, I'm just a fellow with a one track
mind
Whatever it is I want, baby, I seek and I
shall find
I tell you
It was just my imagination once again
Running away with me
It was just my imagination
Running away with me
Every night I hope and pray:
Dear lord, hear
my plea
Don't ever let another take her love from
me
Or I will surely die
Her love is ecstasy, when her arms enfold
me
I hear a tender rhapsody
But in reality, she doesn't even know...
(Just my imagination) ... me
Running away with me
It was just my imagination
Running away with me
I tell you
It was just my imagination once again
Running away with me
It was just my imagination
Running away with me
It was just my imagination once again
Running away with me
Let me tell you, it was just my imagination
Running away with me
Running away with me
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TrackTalk
It's like a continuation (of us covering Ain't
Too Proud to Beg), and I've always wanted to do that song - originally
as a duet with Linda Ronstadt, believe it or not. But instead we just did
our version of it - like an English rock & roll band tuning up on Imagination,
which has only two or three chords... it's real simple stuff...
-
Mick Jagger, 1978
Yeah, I made that (part about two girls
for me) up. In reality the girl in the song doesn't even know me -
it's a dream... I added the New York reference in the song. And the album
itself is like that beause I was staying in New York part of last year...
-
Mick Jagger, 1978
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