Songwriter: Keith Richards Mick Jagger

Producer: Andrew Loog Oldham

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me

I sit and watch
As tears go by

My riches can't buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
But all I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground

I sit and watch
As tears go by

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me

I sit and watch
As tears go by
I sit and watch
As tears go by

I sit and watch
I sit and watch
Those tears go by

P. P. Arnold

Patricia Ann Cole, aka P.P. Arnold, is an American who moved to the UK and had a significant career as a soul singer, both solo and backing such major acts as Small Faces, Humble Pie, Eric Clapton, and The KLF.

Starting her successful music career in the 1960s, she continued to chart into the 1990s, keeping up with the times to produce techno/house music. Her highest single, Evapor-8, hit #6 in the UK in 1992.

Arnold featured with Altern 8 for her biggest hit, the industrial dance/cyberpunk monster Evapor-8

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