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The Rolling Stones released a new song that was partially recorded while the band was in isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the band originally intended it to be part of an upcoming album, but decided it was an appropriate track to release during the COVID-19 pandemic as everyone is stuck inside and the streets in some parts of the world look like a literal ghost town

Mick Jagger said the band were “recording some new material before the lockdown and there was one song we thought would resonate through the times that we’re living in right now. We’ve worked on it in isolation. And here it is.”

I'M A GHOST LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN I'M A GHOST LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN YOU CAN LOOK FOR ME BUT I CAN’T BE FOUND YOU CAN SEARCH FOR ME I HAD TO GO UNDERGROUND LIFE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL THEN WE ALL GOT LOCKED DOWN FEEL A LIKE GHOST LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN ONCE THIS PLACE WAS HUMMING AND THE AIR WAS FULL OF DRUMMING THE SOUNDS OF CYMBALS CRASHING GLASSES WERE ALL SMASHING TRUMPETS WERE ALL SCREAMING SAXOPHONES WERE BLARING NOBODY WAS CARING IF IT'S DAY OR NIGHT I'M A GHOST LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN I'M GOING NOWHERE SHUT UP ALL ALONE SO MUCH TIME TO LOSE JUST STARING AT MY PHONE EVERY NIGHT I AM DREAMING THAT YOU'LL COME AND CREEP IN MY BED PLEASE LET THIS BE OVER NOT STUCK IN A WORLD WITHOUT END PREACHERS WERE ALL PREACHING CHARITIES BESEECHING POLITITIANS DEALING THIEVES WERE HAPPY STEALING WIDOWS WERE ALL WEEPING THERES NO BEDS FOR US TO SLEEP IN ALWAYS HAD THE FEELING IT WOULD ALL COME TUMBLING DOWN I’M A GHOST LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN YOU CAN LOOK FOR ME BUT I CAN’T BE FOUND WE’RE ALL LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN WE WERE SO BEAUTIFUL I WAS YOUR MAN ABOUT TOWN LIVING IN THIS GHOST TOWN IT ISN’T ANY FUN IF I WANT A PARTY IT’S A PARTY OF ONE

Keith Richards said: “We cut this track well over a year ago in LA for a new album, an ongoing thing, and then shit hit the fan. Mick and I decided this one really needed to go to work right now and so here you have it.” 

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