Sticky Fingers
1971
Brown Sugar -
Sway -
Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
You Gotta Move -
Bitch -
I Got the Blues
Sister Morphine -
Dead Flowers -
Moonlight Mile
Brown Sugar -
Sway -
Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
You Gotta Move -
Bitch -
I Got the Blues
Sister Morphine -
Dead Flowers -
Moonlight Mile
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should
Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doing alright
You shoulda heard him just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now
Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, got me feelin' now, brown sugar just like a black girl should
I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And all here boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like
You shoulda heard me just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah
I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
How come you...how come you taste so good?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
Just like a...just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
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Did you ever wake up to find
It's just that demon life has got you in its sway
Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
There must be ways to find out
Hey, hey, hey now
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
It's just that demon life has got me...
Childhood living is easy to do
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Yeah, you got satin shoes
Can't you hear me knockin' on your window
Help me baby, ain't no stranger
Can't you hear me knockin', ahh, are you safe asleep?
Hear me ringing big bell tolls
You gotta move
You may be high
You see that woman
You gotta move
Feeling so tired, can't understand it
I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy
Yeah when you call my name
Yeah, you got to mix it child
Sometimes I'm sexy, move like a stud
Yeah when you call my name
I said hey, yeah I feel alright now
As I stand by your flame
As I sit by the fire
Every night you've been away
In the silk sheet of time
And I've got the blues for you
Here I lie in my hospital bed
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears
Oh, I can't crawl across the floor
Well it just goes to show
Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my head
Well when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair
Take me down little Susie, take me down
Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Take me down little Susie, take me down
Take me down little Susie, take me down
When the wind blows and the rain feels cold
The sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind
Made a rag pile of my shiny clothes
Oh I'm sleeping under strange strange skies
I'm hiding sister and I'm dreaming
Let it go now, come on up babe
Yeah, I'm coming home
Sway
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
A day that broke up your mind
Destroyed your notion of circular time
It's just that demon life has got you in its sway
For all my friends out on the burial ground
Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
Love is the way they say is really strutting out
One day I woke up to find
Right in the bed next to mine
Someone that broke me up with a corner of her smile, yeah
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
It's just that demon life has got me...
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Wild Horses
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day
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Can't You Hear Me Knocking
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Yeah, you got plastic boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed-freak jive
Can't you hear me knockin' on your door
Can't you hear me knockin' down your dirty street, yeah
Help me baby, ain't no stranger
Help me baby, ain't no stranger
Can't you hear me knockin', yeah, down the gas light street, now
Can't you hear me knockin', yeah, throw me down the keys
Alright now
Hear me singing soft and low
I've been begging on my knees
I've been kickin', help me please
Hear me prowlin'
I'm gonna take you down
Hear me growlin'
Yeah, I've got flatted feet now, now, now, now
Hear me howlin'
And all, all around your street now
Hear me knockin'
And all, all around your town
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You Gotta Move
(F. McDowell)
You gotta move
You gotta move, child
You gotta move
Oh, when the Lord gets ready
You gotta move
You may be low
You may be rich, child
You may be poor
But when the Lord gets ready
You gotta move
Who walks the street
You see that police
Upon his beat
But then the Lord gets ready
You gotta move
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Bitch
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Just had a fortnight's sleep
I'm feeling so tired, Ow! so distracted
Ain't touched a thing all week
Ain't touched a drink all night
I'm feeling hungry, can't see the reason
Just ate a horse meat pie
I salivate like a Pavlov dog
Yeah when you lay me out
My heart is beating louder than a big bass drum, alright
You got to fix it must be love
It's a bitch
You got to mix it child
You got to fix it but love
It's a bitch, alright
Kicking the stall all night
Sometimes I'm so shy, got to be worked on
Don't have no bark or bite, alright
I salivate like a Pavlov dog
Yeah when you lay me out
My heart is bumpin' louder than a big bass drum, alright
Got to be a...
Hey, I feel alright now
Hey hey hey
Hey hey yeah...
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I Got the Blues
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
I get burned once again
Feelin' low down, I'm blue
Of your warm desire
I've got the blues for you, yeah
I've sat down and I have prayed
That you're safe in the arms of a guy
Who will bring you alive
Won't drag you down with abuse
I will find peace of mind
Love is a bed full of blues
And I've got the blues for you
And I'll bust my brains out for you
And I'll tear my hair out
I'm gonna tear my hair out just for you
If you don't believe what I'm singing
At three o'clock in the morning, babe, well
I'm singing my song for you
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Sister Morphine
(M. Jagger/K. Richards/M. Faithfull)
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong
Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score
Things are not what they seem
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last
Ah, come on, Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed
'Cause you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah and you can watch all the
Clean white sheets stained red.
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Dead Flowers
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Talkin' to some rich folk that you know
Well I hope you won't see me in my ragged company
Well, you know I could never be alone
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the U.S. Mail
Say it with dead flowers in my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave
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Moonlight Mile
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
With a head full of snow
With a head full of snow
In the window there's a face you know
Don't the nights pass slow
Don't the nights pass slow
Just another mad mad day on the road
I am just living to be lying by your side
But I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road
Gonna warm my bones
Gonna warm my bones
I got silence on my radio
Let the air waves flow
Let the air waves flow
Just another mad mad day on the road
My dreams is fading down the railway line
I'm just about a moonlight mile down the road
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm hiding baby and I'm dreaming
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm riding down you moonlight mile
Yeah, let it go now
Yeah, flow now baby
Yeah move on now yeah
'Cause, I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road
Down the road, down the road
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Lyrics available thanks to the 'Undercover' lyrics project
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