Track six on the album "Some Girls"

In a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger said, "You know, when you drive through Bakersfield on a Sunday morning or Sunday evening - I did that about six months ago - all the country music radio stations start broadcasting black gospel services live from L.A. And that's what the song refers to. But the song's really about driving alone, listening to the radio." On influences, Jagger stated "I wouldn't say this song was influenced specifically by Gram (Parsons). That idea of country music played slightly tongue-in-cheek -
Gram had that in 'Drugstore Truck-Drivin' Man', and we have that sardonic quality, too." Asked by the interviewer if the girl in the song was a real one, Jagger replied, "Yeah, she's real, she's a real girl we used to know, we miss her."

The Rolling Stones have performed "Far Away Eyes" sporadically since its introduction to their repertoire. It is performed in the concert film Some Girls: Live in Texas '78, featuring fiddle player Doug Kershaw. A live recording from July 1995 was included on the album Totally Stripped (2016), and a performance from the Stones' 2006 A Bigger Bang Tour appears in the 2008 concert film Shine a Light and on the accompanying live album. On 20 May 2013, the song was performed in Los Angeles as part of the Stones' "50 & Counting Tour." During their Zip Code Tour, the Stones performed "Far Away Eyes" at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee on 17 June 2015.

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