Released: June 12, 1971
Songwriter: Keith Richards Mick Jagger
Producer: Jimmy Miller
"Wild Horses" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stone ranked it at #334 in its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2004. Originally recorded over a three day period at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama during December 2-4, 1969, the song was not released until over a year later due to legal wranglings with the band's former label. Prior to its release on "Sticky Fingers", Gram Parsons convinced Jagger and Richards to allow him to record "Wild Horses" with his band Read more on Last.fm.
Length: 7:45
Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted, I bought them for you
Graceless lady, you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
[Chorus]
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away
[Verse 2]
I watched you suffer a dull, aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
[Chorus]
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away
[Verse 3]
I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom, but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die
[Chorus]
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day
[Chorus]
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day
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