Marianne Faithfull was Mick Jagger's girlfriend many years ago. It didn't end very well as I recall. She had a lot of problems with drugs and personal issues.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones wrote "As tears go by". It became Marianne's biggest hit!
She recorded a second version a few years ago.
It seems as if the lyrics make more sense the second time around.....when she looks back at her very tumultuous younger days.
This is the first & second version from an older Marianne:
"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 ev'rything,
I want to hear the children sing.
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.
Doin' things I used to do they think are new.
I sit and watch as tears go by....."
