"Moonlight Mile" (The Rolling Stones)

Sitting at the end of the second side of The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers (1971) is "Moonlight Mile."  It basically began as a throwaway riff, tentatively titled "Japanese Thing," that Keith Richards had recorded to tape and promptly forgot about.  That is, until Mick Taylor resurrected it with Mick Jagger's help, the two of them reworking it into a full-fledged song during an all-night recording session.
(Yet somehow the song was only credited to "Jagger/Richards."  Crappy move on their part.)
Compared to the other songs on Sticky Fingers, which mostly romp and rave through topics ranging from interracial nookie to rock and roll excess, "Moonlight Mile" is decidedly sweeter and more poetic.  That's not to say it doesn't have its thinly veiled drug references.  (Who is Jagger kidding with the line "a head full of snow"?)  But in the context, they're less celebratory or cautionary (see "Sister Morphine") and more road-weary.
It's one of those rare Stones songs where Jagger isn't strutting like a rooster in a henhouse.  Instead, it's as if he's reciting a private letter to a loved one, revealing that the on-stage persona and bravado are all part of the show.  Deep down, he's grown weary of the constant touring and its accoutrements.  In fact, it's almost a confession that he wanted out, which actually is consistent with what he was telling the media in 1971-2: he'd grown bored with rock and roll.
Consider the lyric:
Made a rag pile of my shiny clothes
Gonna warm my bones
Gonna warm my bones
I got silence on my radio
Let the air waves flow
Let the air waves flow
It's one of the band's few ballads that looks forward to a place of solitude and comfort rather than reflecting upon loss.