Album: Bridges To Babylon (1997)

Charted: 22

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• She confessed her love to me
  Then she vanished on the breeze
  Tryna hold on to that was just impossible
  She was more than beautiful
  Closer to ethereal
  With a kind of down to earth flavor
  
  Close my eyes
  It's three in the afternoon
  Then I, I realize
  That she's really gone for good
  
  Anybody seen my baby?
  Anybody seen her around?
  Love has gone and made me blind
  I've looked but I just can't find
  She has gotten lost in the crowd
  
  And I was flippin' magazines
  In that place on Mercer street
  When I thought I spotted her
  And getting on a motor bike
  Looking really lady like
  Didn't she just give me a wave?
  
  The salty tears
  It's three in the afternoon
  Has she disappeared?
  Has she really gone for good?
  
  Anybody seen my baby? (Anybody seen my baby?)
  Anybody seen her around? (Oh, hope anybody seen her around)
  If I just close my eyes (I close my eyes)
  I reach out and touch the prize
  Anybody seen, anybody seen her around?
  (Oh yeah, that's what I'm sayin')
  
  We came to rock for Brooklyn
  And Queens
  And Manhattan
  And the Bronx
  And Staten Island
  I can't forget New Jersey
  And Long Island
  And all over the world
  We came to rock for everybody, uh, like this
  
  Anybody seen my baby? (Anybody, anybody seen my baby?)
  Has anybody seen her, anybody seen her around?
  If I just close my eyes
  I will reach out, reach out and touch the prize
  Anybody, anybody seen her around? Oh yeah
  
  (Anybody seen my baby?) Anybody seen her?
  (Anybody seen her around?) Lost, lost and never found
  Oh yeah, I must have, I must have called her a thousand times
  Oh, sometimes I just think she's just in my imagination
  Oh yeah
  Lost, lost in the crowd Writer/s: Benjamin Mink, K.D. Lang, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Craig from Newport Beach, CaRegarding K.D. Lang's "contribution" to the song: Keith Richards said as the Stones listened back to ANYBODY in the studio, something sounded familiar about it that they could not put their finger on. Later Keith was playing the recording at home, and his daughter and her friend started spontaneously singing Lang's song along with the Stones' song. And Keith thought, "Oh, boy, maybe that's what sounded familiar to us in the studio." It could have been pure coincidence, or else subconscious influence. But just to play it safe, and because they were up against a deadline, the Stones gave Lang credit. Mick thought they shouldn't, and maybe he's right. ANYBODY SEEN MY BABY is a much better song than CONSTANT CRAVING. It's understandable that Lang said she was "flattered" the Stones gave her a credit.
• Eric from Hastings, Mnumm what was the point?
• Homero from Monterrey , MexicoNot a very good song in my opinion. Can you notice that Lang contributed more to the song than the RS ???
• Mark from Los Angeles, Cabiz markie does the rap, it was sampled from his first album
• Car from Tulsa, OkMick Jagger said openly that he got the idea for the song from one of her songs. (lang)
• Jacquie from Sparks, NvAngelina Jolie was in the video for this song. There were actually two versions, one version more explicit (with nudity) than the other.
• Jade from Chippewa Falls, Wi This was possibly about Mick Jagger's dreams about Mary Badham. She dated him for a day and he fell for her, but she didn't want anything to do with him. This is a good song
• Charles from New York, NyDoes anybody of note do the rap part?
• Yo from Honolulu, Hianyone know the 411 on the title Bridges to Babylon?

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