Album: Some Girls (1978)

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• I've been holdin' out so long
  I've been sleepin' all alone
  Lord, I miss you
  I've been hanging on the phone
  I've been sleeping all alone
  I want to kiss you sometime
  
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh
  
  Well, I've been haunted in my sleep
  You've been starrin' in my dreams
  Lord, I miss you, child
  I've been waitin' in the hall
  Been waitin' on your call
  Your phone rings
  It's just some friends of mine that say
  "Hey, what's the matter, man?
  We're gonna come around at twelve
  With some Puerto Rican girls that's just dyin' to meet you
  We're gonna bring a case of wine
  Hey, let's go mess and fool around
  You know, like we used to"
  
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah
  
  Oh everybody waits so long
  Oh baby, why you wait so long?
  Won't you come on, come on
  
  I've been walking Central Park
  Singin' after dark
  People think I'm crazy
  Stumbling on my feet
  Shuffling through the street
  Asking people, "What's the matter with you, boy?"
  Sometimes I want to say to, to myself
  Sometimes I say
  
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
  I won't miss you, child
  
  I guess I'm lying to myself
  It's just you and no one else
  Lord, I won't miss you, child
  You've just been blottin' out my mind
  Foolin' on my time
  No, I won't miss you, baby, yeah
  Lord, I miss you child
  
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah
  Lord, I miss you, child
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah
  Lord, I miss you, child
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah aah
  Aah aah aah aah Writer/s: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 28

• Artware from Colorado SpringsThe dance version has been released on Virgin rarities. BTW the best ever live version is from the Memphis concert in 1978, that version rocks.
• Tom from Gaithersburg I saw the ‘Miss You’ tour and wasn’t into it. The album and this song grew on me into the 80s. I listened to it so many times it is one of my favorite albums from any artist. There are some great live versions of the song, my favorite one being on ‘Flashpoint.’ They have so many great songs in their career, it’s ridiculous. Really.
• Melinda from AustraliaLove this song. You can feel the longing in every lyric. I always loved the vivid lyric ‘we’re gonna come around at 12 with some Puerta Rican girls that are just dyin to meet you, we’re gonna bring a case of wine’. Clearly, those lyrics come directly from Mick Jaggers real life experience . Girls dyin to meet him.
  
  The slow sexiness of this song was what struck me when I first heard it. It proved to me that despite all the endless groupies and real long term girlfriends/wives Mick Jagger had, he missed some of them deeply by separation. Just like everyone else. Marianne Faithfull nearly destroyed him in the early days. I bought Emotional Rescue too. And loved that song. I’m different, I believe Keith Richard’s insistence on sticking to R’n’b, rock and roll and blues, hindered Mick Jagger’s musical genius. It’s a fact Jagger wrote Miss You when Keith Richard wasn’t around to put a stop to it. Miss You’s brilliance is proof of what Mick jagger could have achieved without Keith Richard’s constant determination to disallow modern influences. Miss You is a perfect example of the time it came out.
• Markantney from BiloxeSep16, Though the Stones say it's more R&B than Disco, at the time, if an R&B song was popular and played in Disco clubs; I don't recall a big distinction between the two categories?
  
  Very weird how huuuuuggggeeee Disco was in its prime but once folks came down from their highs and it wasn't as popular, no one wants to claim it:):)
  
  This song was big in the "Hood", it actually got us looking-listening for more Stones songs.
• Glenn from New Paltz, NyThe missing lyrics referencing girls and streetcars may have been edited (butchered) by radio programmers. The lyrics are on all of my copies, both vinyl and CD. This is not the first time that political correctness has reared its ugly head and edited the art of the singer. Who Are You...by The Who has also been edited by radio stations recently. I am flabbergasted that censorship has gotten to this level. We really have gone NUTS here in the good ole US of A!
• Diva1 from Pasadena, Tx[the book Jagger Unauthorized by chistopher anderson says this song is was inspired by micks studio 54 nights with jerry hall pg 336- Iceman, South Glastonbury, CT]
  Nonsense, Anderson was a hack. It's most likely about Bianca. The song was written before he began his affair with Jerry Hall, and recorded while he was living with Hall, separated from Bianca. The song is about loss, the pain of separation - that's what gave/gives it resonance. In an interview before his death, Lennon, talking about the song, said, 'It's sad, but at least Mick got a song out of his divorce from Bianca.'
• Jay from Brooklyn, NyThe opening line of this song always sounded to me like "I've been haulin' ass so long". I knew that I was hearing wrong because I don't think you can say that on the radio, but I could never figure out what the actual words were.
• Walda from Clearwater, FlMolly Roseburg, OR
  Wow! I can't believe someone actually heard the same line in "Miss You" as I did ~ "girls will come and go, they're just like streetcars." Thank you Molly, I thought I was crazy. Thank you, I can finally get some "satisfaction".
  W. Emerson
  
• Russell from Chicago, IlSugar Blue's harp makes this good song great.
• Lee from Atlanta, GaThe "disco version" extended lyrics are as follows:
  
  Yeah, we gonna do up this town
  We gonna mess and fool around
  Hey Man! What's with you?
  Yeah, you been strung out for too long
  You know girls will come and go
  They're just like streetcars!
  I said, I been standing here too long
  You know something, I feel abandoned!
  Woo Baby!
• Danny from Your Town, IaI agree, the bass line makes this song. One of my favorite Stone's song. Keith has said many times that he initially hated this song and that Mick was up to his ass in the disco/ cub scene, which Keith wanted to keep it rock.
• Chris from Niagara Falls, NyThe song is amazing...the 8:30 minute cut is sweet
• Mick from Manchester, EnglandThis is one of the alltime jams in the history of music. Makes me get funky
• Andrew from Birmingham, United StatesThe disco beat sounds really exciting. In the '70s the disco beat became really common with the Rolling Stones, didn't it? I've been a Rolling Stones fan for a long time now. If you Stones continue, I wish you guys the best of luck!
• Linda from Ocean Park, WaIn 1987 Prince performed onstage with the Stones in London. He told them that he wished he'd written the song, "Miss You". If you know Prince at all you know this is an ultimate compliment.
• Craig from Melbourne, AustraliaThe 12" version has extra lyrics, including the "girls will come and go" part.
  
  The song was written AFTER Start me up. Start me up, as a reggae song, was 1st conceived in 1973.
  
  This was NOT the Stones last #1 single. Start me up was.
  
  Mick & Keith performed this at the 9-11 show, as well as Salt of the Earth. But, the announcer didnt realise Keith was in the band, and said "Ladies and Gentlemen, please thank Mick Jagger". Mick looked over at Keith and the two of them laughed their heads off at the error.
• Eric from Hastings, Mnthis tune always gets stuck in my head
• Rick from Grapevine, TxRE: Molly's comment. I too remember the line. I don't know what happened to it.
• Jeffrey Tobias from Portland, OrMiss You, by the Rolling Stones, seems to have changed lyrics from the original Miss You, written by Charles Tobias in 1929, and is getting paid for that song today. John Lennon accused mick jagger in 1980 of using his song, Miss You, and changing the lyrics. It sounds like the lyrics were changed to the 1929 version.
• Molly from Roseburg, OrWhen "Miss You" first came out, I swear there were more words, right after the lines about bringing a case of wine and messing and fooling around like we used to. The words said something like, "girls will come and go, they're just like streetcars." I can't be the only one who remembers this! Did the single get edited so as not to offend feminists or something?
• Steve from Culver City, CaSugar Blue contributed more than harmonica on Miss You. He co-wrote the music. Unfortunately, as in almost all cases of somebody outside of Keith collaborating, he received no credit. An original of the sheet music exsists with Sugar Blue's name on it.
  The Some Girls Sessions yielded 6 songs featuring Sugar Blue on four albums. "Miss You" "Some Girls" "Down in the Hole" "Send it to Me" "Everything is Turning to Gold" "Black Limousine"
• Iceman from South Glastonbury, Ctthe book Jagger Unauthorized by chistopher anderson says this song is was inspired by micks studio 54 nights with jerry hall pg 336
• Amy from Dallas, TxMy favorite Stones song, and yep, the bass on this song is great!
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaYes, that's true Joey. Why don't more people comment? Jeez, this is one of the stones best songs! People who think it's disco should listen to Emotional Rescue, which is a piece of crap. Sry stones, but c'mon. Good thing they rebounded with tatoo you a year later.
• Joey from Boston, MaBill Wyman's bass playing on this is incredible. Most people pay attention to the harmonica riff, but the bass is also what drives the song.
• Ty from Canal Fulton, Ohi once heard that the "Miss You" riff was written by Rory Gallagher and stolen by Keith Richards... i dont know if it's completely true, but i believe i read it in an interview with Gallagher's bass player Gerry McAvoy
• Marc from Philadelphia, PaMick Jagger told John Lennon that if he speeded up "Scared" it would be a hit.
  
  John told him "You do it" and thats how Miss you came about
• Dana from Louisville, KyJohn Lennon said in one of his final interviews in 1980 that he suspected "Miss You" was a direct rip-off of his 1974 song "Scared", changing the lyrics and speeding up his song.

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