Love comes at the speed of light
Love comes in a strange disguise
Love comes
Open the door and let the light pour over
Open the door don't you keep me out
Open the door and let the light pour over
Hear me shout
Open the door and let the light pour over
Open the door don't you keep me out
Open the door and let the light pour over
Love comes at the speed of light
Love comes
It's a pure as silver
It's as pure as gold
It's a rushing river
Let it run all over me
It's as pure as silver
It's as pure as gold
Let it run all over me
Love comes
Love comes at the speed of light
Love comes at the speed of light
I woke up one morning to find Mick playing this thing on the keyboard (hums the song's riff). And I thought, Ah, that's nice, that reminds me of Morocco. - Keith Richards, 1989
I remember Brian playing (his Moroccan) tapes (in the '60s). We had this engineer we were working with, George Chkiantz, and George was one of the first people to be heavily into phasing, which was like the scratching of the middle '60s. So Brian took all of the Jajouka tapes and put them through phasing, which was really quite before its time. I always felt the Stones were quite adventurous that way. - Mick Jagger, 1989
Released on the Steel Wheels album in 1989. “Continental Drift” is an odd track that really doesn’t belong on the album. It wouldn’t fit in on any Stones album. That doesn’t mean that it’s not an interesting song. It is many things. Haunting. Ethereal. Hypnotic. Danceable.
Still, I wonder why the Stones recorded it at all. The song is not much on content. The lyrics are fairly insubstantial. As if they were throw away lyrics that didn’t fit into any other song but were too good to abandon. Was Mick thinking of Brian when he wrote the melody? How strange it is to find the Stones suddenly working with the Master Musicians of Jajouka twenty years after Brian first proposed the idea.
Since the song cannot be played live (the Master Musicians of Jajouka do not tour!) “Continental Drift” can only be heard in its entirety on Steel Wheels. The band used the song as their “intro” during the Steel Wheels Tour. A few second of the song can be found on the live album called Flashpoint.
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