Miss You

I've been holding out so long
I've been sleeping all alone
Lord I miss you
I've been hanging on the phone
I've been sleeping all alone
I want to kiss you

Ooh, ooh.....
Ooh, ooh...

Well I've been haunted in my sleep
You've been starring in my dreams
Lord I miss you
I've been waiting in the hall
Been waiting on your call
When the phone rings
It's just some friends of mine
That say
"Hey, what's the matter man?
We're gonna come around at 12
With some Puerto Rican girls
That's just dying to meet you
We're gonna bring a case of wine
Hey, let's go and mess and fool around
You know, like we used to..."

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
Singing after dark
People think I'm crazy
I've been stumbling on my feet
Shuffling through the street
Asking people
"What's the matter with you, boy?"

Sometimes
I want to say to myself
Sometimes
I say

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 been blotting out my mind
Fooling on my time
No I won't miss you, baby
Yeah

Lord
I miss you, child
Aah, ahh....
Aah, ahh...
Lord
I miss you, child
Aah, aah...
Lord
I miss you, child
Aah, aah...
Aah, aah...



- Released May 18, 1978

- "Miss You" was written by singer Mick Jagger while jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston.

- "Miss You" was the first Rolling Stones single with prominent disco influences, most noticeably in Charlie Watts' thumping, four-on-the-floor drum beat, and in Bill Wyman's funky, grooving bass-lines, which provide another riff in addition to the main melody. That melody, sung in playful falsetto by Jagger, or else intoned by a chorus of dreamy, borderline-campy backup singers, forms the principal hook used throughout the track, often underlined by Sugar Blue's harmonica lines and incisive solos. The funky beat and the rapping during the verses are reminiscent of hip-hop, although it would be a couple of years before hip-hop was commonly recognized as a distinct genre in its own right.

- "Miss You" would be one of the highly successful Stones singles, becoming their eighth number-one hit in the U.S. on its initial release in 1978. The song was originally nearly nine minutes long, but was edited to four-and-a-half minutes for the album version, and to three-and-a-half minutes for the radio single.

- Session musicians included Sugar Blue (James Whiting) on harmonica, Mel Collins on sax and Ian MacLagan on electric piano. Mel Collins had played with King Crimson, MacLagan had been in the band Faces with Stones guitarist Ron Wood.

- According to this link -[Sugar Blue] Whiting moved to Paris in 1976, and was playing at a party when he met someone who claimed to know Mick Jagger, and that Whiting should give Jagger a call at his Paris residence. Skeptical, he tried the number, but it panned out, and the result was a guest solo on Miss You from the Some Girls album. He also recorded with the Stones on the Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You albums, and appeared with them on the Steel Wheels tour.

- In the book Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono (the book version has sections that were edited out of the official interview published in the magazine), [John] Lennon is quoted as saying: "'Bless You' is again about Yoko. I think Mick Jagger took 'Bless You' and turned it into 'Miss You'... The engineer kept wanting me to speed that up--he said, 'This is a hit song if you'd just do it fast.' He was right. 'Cause as 'Miss You' it turned into a hit. I like Mick's record better. I have no ill feelings about it. I think it's a GREAT Stones track, and I really love it. But I do hear that lick in it."

John Lennon's "Bless You"