The Song
"Sleep Tonight" is a piano driven ballad, with a restrained string arrangement, a heavy drum beat and a gospel-like vocal arrangement. The song shows a maturing musician and songwriter, and is a bridge between the younger Richards "outlaw" songs and the soulful ballads he became known for on later Rolling Stones records like Slipping Away (Steel Wheels), The Worst and Thru and Thru (Voodoo Lounge), How Can I Stop (Bridges to Babylon) and Losing My Touch (Forty Licks).
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“Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars—all the beauties of creation.”
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Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
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