It's all one song
Keith Richards has said that, to him, music is all one song. That might be the reason for the Forty Licks packaging running all forty song titles together to look like one title. I was wondering what that song might be about.
Apparently it’s about a man, fighting in the street, who needs to find shelter. Finding none, he is unsatisfied, just like the last time. He meets a ghetto philosopher named Jack who assures him he can’t always get what he wants, which causes the latest in his string of nervous breakdowns. He finds himself under the thumb and trying not to fade away. He asks Jack if he’s seen his mother, but as Jack has not, he has sympathy for the little devil. He goes to find the mother and helps her out. He thinks of her as a rainbow off of a cloud of dust being kicked up by wild horses on Tuesday, painted black by honky tonk women. When that’s all over now, they spend the night together.
The best way to start him up is with brown sugar, though if you miss the beast of burden, don’t stop. Happy is how Angie feels when he gets her rocking, but when she’s shattered she’s a fool to cry. Love is indeed strong, but life is more often full of mixed emotions, uncovering the keys to love but not necessarily his baby, who is unseen. A stolen heart tumbles like dice in the cover of night, prompting an emotional rescue featuring only rock and roll, which is liked, but it’s agreed they are losing their touch.
by Jack, November 19, 2003 11:19 PM | More from The Damned Human Race
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Very good.