Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Me'Shell Ndegéocello
6-string bass:Pierre de Beauport
Acoustic guitar: Mick Jagger
Electric guitars: Ron Wood & Waddy Wachtel
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin
Keyboards: Mick Jagger & Jamie Muhoberac
Organ: Billy Preston
 

Saint Paul the Persecutor was a cruel and sinful man
Jesus hit him with a blinding light and then his life began

I said yes (I said yeah)

Augustine knew temptation, he loved women, wine and song
And all the special pleasures of doing something wrong

I said yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me

Yeah

And could you stand the torture and could you stand the pain?
Could you put your faith in Jesus when you're burning in the flames?

And I do believe in miracles and I want to save my soul
And I know that I'm a sinner, I'm going to die here in the cold

I thought I heard an angel cry
I thought I saw a teardrop falling from his eye

Come on

John the Baptist was a martyr but he stirred up Herod's hate
And Salome got her wish to have him served up on a plate

You'll never make a saint of me
 
 

TrackTalk

I didn't know what I was doing sometimes when I was sitting in the Dust Brothers' studio in Silver Lake and it's just me and I've got absolutely nothing to start with and I'm going, I wonder if this is really such a good idea I'm doing this. And they got this little drum machine going, which is called an 808 which everyone uses, and it's just tinkling away in the back there, like, in this teeny way and I'm quite used to all that but... So I'm sitting there playing my keyboard and playing Saint of Me and I'm thinking, Sounds like shit, this is terrible, how is it ever going to work out? And how I am gonna... And it was very, you know, it's quite slow. I was having fun with it, but it's very low tech in that studio and I just didn't know how it was gonna build up. But then, as it goes on, you know, and I took the tapes, transferred them and then went to the studio and Charlie sort of played on them. And then I'd bring them back and... it comes in piece (by) piece. It still had to really take shape but it was quite fun doing that. I mean, it was just good to do it in another way, really, and I had a lot of fun with that one.

I think Saint of Me is great.

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