Let it Bleed
1969
Gimme Shelter -
Love in Vain -
Country Honk -
Live With Me
Let it Bleed -
Midnight Rambler -
You Got the Silver
Monkey Man -
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Gimme Shelter -
Love in Vain -
Country Honk -
Live With Me
Let it Bleed -
Midnight Rambler -
You Got the Silver
Monkey Man -
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
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Well I followed her to the station
When the train come in the station
When the train left the station
All my love was in vain
All my love's in vain
I'm sittin' in a bar nibblin' a jar in Jackson
It's the honky tonk women
I laid a divorcee in New York City
It's the honky tonk women
It's the honky tonk women
I got nasty habits, I take tea at three
Come on now, honey
And there's a score of harebrained children
You'd look good pram pushing
Whoa, the servants they're so helpful, dear
Don'cha think there's a place for us
Well, we all need someone we can lean on
She said, "My breasts, they will always be open
Yeah, we all need someone we can dream on
I was dreaming of a steel guitar engagement
We all need someone we can feed on
Yeah, we all need someone we can bleed on
Ahh, bleed it alright, bleed it alright, bleed it alright
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
Talkin' about the midnight gambler
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
(ad lib)
Well you heard about the Boston...
So if you ever meet the midnight rambler
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
And if you ever catch the midnight rambler
Hey babe, what's in your eyes?
You got my heart you got my soul
Tell me, honey, what will I do
Hey baby, what's in your eyes?
Oh babe, you got my soul
I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
I'm a cold Italian pizza
But I've been bit and I've been tossed around
Well, I am just a monkey man
I was bitten by a boar
Yes, I'm a sack of broken eggs
Well, I hope we're not too messianic
Well I am just a monkey man
I'm a monkey
I saw her today at the reception
No, you can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
And I went down to the demonstration
You can't always get what you want
I went down to the Chelsea drugstore
You can't always get what you want
You get what you need--yeah, oh baby
I saw her today at the reception
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
Love in Vain
(Trad arr. M. Jagger/K. Richards)
With a suitcase in my hand
Yeah, I followed her to the station
With a suitcase in my hand
Whoa, it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell
When all your love's in vain
I looked her in the eye
Well the train come in the station
And I looked her in the eye
Whoa, I felt so sad so lonesome
That I could not help but cry
It had two lights on behind
Yeah, when the train left the station
It had two lights on behind
Whoa, the blue light was my baby
And the red light was my mind
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Country Honk
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
And on the street the summer sun it shines
There's many a bar-room queen
I've had in Jackson
But I just can't seem to drink you off my mind
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady she all dressed me up in roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme thse honky tonk blues
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Live With Me
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Yes, and the meat I eat for dinner
Must be hung up for a week
My best friend, he shoots water rats
And feeds them to his geese
Don'cha think there's a place for you
In between the sheets?
We can build a home for three
Come on now, honey
Don't you wanna live with me?
They're all locked in the nursery
They got earphone heads they got dirty necks
They're so 20th century
Well they queue up for the bathroom
'Round about 7:35
Don'cha think we need a woman's touch to make it come alive?
Down the high street
Come on now, honey
Don't you wanna live with me?
The cook she is a whore
Yes, the butler has a place for her
Behind the pantry door
The maid, she's French, she's got no sense
She's wild for Crazy Horse
And when she strips, the chauffeur flips
The footman's eyes get crossed
Right across the street
Don'cha think there's a place for you,
In between the sheets?
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Let it Bleed
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
And if you want it, you can lean on me
Yeah, we all need someone we can lean on
And if you want it, you can lean on me
Baby, you can rest your weary head right on me
And there will always be a space in my parking lot
When you need a little coke and sympathy"
And if you want it, baby, well you can dream on me
Yeah, we all need someone we can cream on
And if you want to, well you can cream on me
When you drunk my health in scented jasmine tea
But you knifed me in my dirty filthy basement
With that jaded, faded, junky nurse
Oh what pleasant company
And if you want it, well you can feed on me
Take my arm, take my leg, oh baby don't you take my head
Yeah, and if you want it, baby, well you can bleed on me
Yeah, we all need someone we can bleed on
Yeah, yeah, and if you want it, baby, why don'cha bleed on me
All over
You can bleed all over me
Bleed it alright, bleed it alright, you can be my rider
You can cum all over me
Bleed it alright, baby, bleed it alright, bleed it alright
You can cum all over me
Bleed it alright, baby cum all over me
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Midnight Rambler
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Everybody got to go
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
The one that shut the kitchen door
He don't give a hoot of warning
Wrapped up in a black cat cloak
He don't go in the light of the morning
He split the time the cock'rel crows
The one you never seen before
Talkin' about the midnight gambler
Did you see him jump the garden wall
Sighin' down the wind so sad
Listen and you'll hear him moan
Talkin' about the midnight gambler
Everybody got to go
Well, honey, it's no rock 'n' roll show
Well, I'm talkin' about the midnight gambler
Yeah, the one you never seen before
It's not one of those
Well, talkin' 'bout the midnight...sh...
The one that closed the bedroom door
I'm called the hit-and-run raper in anger
The knife-sharpened tippie-toe...
Or just the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler
You know, the one you never seen before
Coming down your marble hall
Well he's pouncing like proud black panther
Well, you can say I, I told you so
Well, don't you listen for the midnight rambler
Play it easy, as you go
I'm gonna smash down all your plate glass windows
Put a fist, put a fist through your steel-plated door
He'll leave his footprints up and down your hall
And did you hear about the midnight gambler
And did you see me make my midnight call
I'll steal your mistress from under your nose
I'll go easy with your cold fanged anger
I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby
And it hurts!
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You Got the Silver
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
I saw them flashing like airplane lights
You fill my cup, babe, that's for sure
I must come back for a little more
You got the silver you got the gold
You got the diamonds from the mine
Well that's all right, it'll buy some time
When I'm hungry and thirsty too
Feeling fooling (and that's for sure)
Just waiting here at your kitchen door?
Is that the diamonds from the mine?
What's that laughing in your smile?
I don't care, no, I don't care
You got the silver you got the gold
If that's your love, just leave me blind
I don't care, no, that's no big surprise
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Monkey Man
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
All my friends are junkies
That's not really true
I could use a lemon squeezer
Would you do?
By every she-rat in this town
Have you, babe?
I'm glad you are a monkey woman too
I was gouged and I was gored
But I pulled it on through
I always have an unmade bed
Don't you?
Or a trifle too satanic
We love to play the blues
I'm glad you are a monkey, monkey woman too, babe
I'm a monkey
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey...
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was a footloose man
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she was gonna meet her connection
At her feet was a footloose man
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse"
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you just might find
You get what you need
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was "dead"
I said to him
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need
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Lyrics available thanks to the 'Undercover' lyrics project