Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: September
1993-April 1994
Recording locations: Sandymount
Studios, Ron Wood's home, St. Kildare, Ireland; Windmill Lane
Recording, Dublin, Ireland;
& A&M Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don
Was & The Glimmer Twins
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Performed onstage:
1994-95
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Darryl
Jones
Acoustic guitar: Mick
Jagger
Electric guitar: Keith
Richards
Slide electric guitar: Ron
Wood
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Piano: Chuck
Leavell
Organ: Benmont
Tench
Percussion: Lenny
Castro
Strings: (unknown
musicians)
I can't feel, feel a thing
I can't shout, I can't scream
Breathe it out, breathe it in
All this love from within
(And) I won't cry when you say goodbye
I'm out of tears
(And) I won't die when you wave goodbye
I'm out of tears (yes I am)
I won't drink, I won't eat
I can't hear, I won't speak
Let it out, let it in
All this pain from within
And I just can't pour my heart out
To another living thing
I'm a whisper, I'm a shadow
And I'm standing up to sing
And I won't cry, I swear my eyes are dry
I'm out of tears (yeah)
And I won't cry, I'm going to tell you why
I'm out of tears
Let it out from within
Some you lose, some you win
I can drift, I can dream
Til I float off your screen
TrackTalk
Out of Tears is totally Mick's (composition).
Out of Tears (is completely mine).
(It came j)ust kind of very quickly.
There's no set way to write songs. I used
to say, Now we're writing songs. I'm gonna sit at my desk. Out
of Tears was a little bit like that, where I'm sitting at the piano
in Ronnie's studio going Da da ding, da da ding. Then you go and
listen to it, and it's got this really good mood because it's you on your
own. No one else is there, and you're creating the mood. There's a very
sad mood to that song. The Stones are mainly a guitar band, but I think
with a ballad sometimes it's nice to move away from that. And when a song
is written on a keyboard, you get a different sort of melodic structure.
Both Mick and I like to do that. You can have
an idea for a song, and you play it on guitar and it just doesn't work.
And then you try it on piano and suddenly it starts to make sense to you.
Then you can go back to guitar and it all falls into place. To be able
to write on a couple of different instruments gives you a whole different
feel on a song.