The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER
(Jagger/Richards)

What a drag it is getting old...
"Kids are different today,"
I hear every mother say.
Mother needs something today to calm her down.
And though she's not really ill,
There's a little yellow pill.
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper...
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day.

"Things are different today,"
I hear every mother say.
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag.
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak.
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper.
And two help her on her way; get her through her busy day...

Doctor please, some more of these!
Outside the door, she took four more.
What a drag it is getting old.

"Men just aren't the same today,"
I hear every mother say.
They just don't appreciate that you get tired!
They're so hard to satisfy; you can tranquilize your mind.
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper.
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight.

Doctor please, some more of these!
Outside the door, she took four more.
What a drag it is getting old.

"Life's just much too hard today,"
I hear every mother say.
The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore.
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose.
No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper.
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day...

[Supposedly the lyrics were written by Brian Jones & Keith Richards, with the music written by
Jones. Jones was never credited.]

(I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

I can't get no satisfaction.
I try and I try and I try.
I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm driving in my car
And that man comes on the radio,
He's telling me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination.
I can't get no, oh no.

I can't get no satisfaction
I try and I try and I try and I try.
I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm watching my TV,
And that man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be.
But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me.
I can't get no, oh no. That's what I say

I can't get no satisfaction
I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm riding round the world
And I'm doing this and I'm signing that.
And I'm trying to make some girl
Who tells me, bab, better come back
Later next week,
'Cause you see I'm on losing streak.
I can't get no, oh no. That's what I say

I can't get no, I can't get no,
I can't get no satisfaction.

LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER
(Jagger/Richards)

My, my.Don't you worry about what's on your mind.
I'm in no hurry, I can take my time.
I'm going red and my tongue's getting tied.
I'm off my head and my mouth's getting dry.
I'm high, but I try, try.

Let's spend the night together.
Now I need you more than ever.
Let's spend the night together now.

I feel so strong that I can't disguise.
Let's spend the night together.
I just can't apologize.
Let's spend the night together.
Don't hang me up and don't let me down.
We could have fun just groovin' around,around.
Let's spend the night together.
Now I need you more than ever.
Let's spend the night together.

You know I'm smiling baby.
You need some guiding baby.
I'm just deciding baby, now,
I need you more than ever.
Let's spend the night together.

This doesn't happen to me everyday.
Let's spend the night together.
No excuses offered anyway.
Let's spend the night together.
I'll satisfy your every need,
And I now know you will satisfy me. Oh my.
Let's spend the night together.
Now I need you more than ever.
Let's spend the night together now.

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long years
Stole many a man's soul and faith

And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me

Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
(who who)
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint

So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down

Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame

BACKSTREET GIRL

(Jagger/Richards)

I don't want you to be high.
I don't want you to be down.
Don't want to tell you no lie.
Just want you to be around.

Please come right up to my ears;
You will be able to hear what I say.
Don't want you out in my world.
Just you be my backstreet girl.

Please don't be part of my life.
Please keep yourself to yourself.
Please don't you bother my wife.
That way you won't get no help.

Don't try to ride on my horse.
You're rather common and coarse anyway.
Don't want you out in my world;
Just you be my backstreet girl.

Please don't you call me at home.
Please don't come knocking at night.
Please never ring on the phone.
Your manners are never quite right.

Please take the favors I grant.
Curtsy and look nonchalant, just for me.
Don't want you part of my world;
Just you be my backstreet girl

GET OFF OF MY CLOUD
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block,
And I sit at home looking out the window,
Imagining the world has stopped.
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up
Like a Union Jack,
And says I've won five pounds
If I have his kind of detergent pack.

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby.

The telephone is ringing.
I say, "Hi, it's me. Who is it there on the line?"
A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you?"
"Well I guess I'm doin' fine"
He says, "It's three a.m., there's too much noise.
Don't you people ever wanna go to bed?
Just 'cause you feel so good, do you haveto drive me
Out of my head?"

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud baby.

I was sick and tired, fed up with this,
And decided to take a drive downtown.
It was so very quiet and peaceful.
There was nobody, not a soul around.
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream.
In the morning the parking tickets
Were just like a flag
Stuck on my window screen.

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud...

BROWN SUGAR
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

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

I bet your mama was a tent show queen,
And all her 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.
Just like a black girl should.

RUBY TUESDAY
(Jagger/Richards)

She would never say where she came from.
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone.
While the sun is bright,
Or in the darkest night,
No one knows.
She comes and goes.

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday.
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day?
Still I'm gonna miss you...

Don't question why she needs to be so free.
She'll tell you it's the only way to be.
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained,
And nothing's lost,
At such a cost.

There's no time to lose, I heard her say;
Catch your dreams before they slip away.
Dying all the time,
Lose your dreams
And you will lose your mind.
Ain't life unkind?

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day?
Still I'm gonna miss you...

PAINT IT BLACK
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

I see a red door and I want it painted black.
No colors anymore; I want them to turn black.
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes.
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes.

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away,
Like a new born baby it just happens every day.

I look inside myself and see my heart is black.
I see my red door and it has been painted black.
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts.
It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black.

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue.
I could not foresee this thing happening to you.
If I look hard enough into the setting sun,
My love will laugh with me before the morning comes.

I see a red door and I want it painted black.
No colors anymore; I want them to turn black.
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes;
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes.

I want to see it painted black.
Black as night, black as coal.
I want to see the sun blotted out from the sky.
I want to see it painted black.

Sitting on a Fence
(Jagger/Richards)
Since I was young I've been very hard to please
And I don't know wrong from right.
But there is one thing I could never understand:
Some of the sick things that a girl does to a man, so
I'm just sittin' on a fence.
You can say I got no sense.
Trying to make up my mind;
Really is too horrifying,
So I'm sitting on a fence.
All of my friends at school grew up and settled down,
And they mortgaged up their lives.
One thing's not said too much, but I think it's true:
They just get married cause there's nothing else to do, so—
I'm just sittin' on a fence.
You can say I got no sense.
Trying to make up my mind;
Really is too horrifying,
So I'm sittin on a fence.
The day can come when you get old
and sick and tired of life.
You just never realize
that maybe the choice you made
wasn't really right.
But you go out and you don't come back at night, so—
I'm just sittin' on a fence.
You can say I got no sense.
Trying to make up my mind;
Really is too horrifying,
So I'm sittin on a fence.

19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
(Jagger/Richards)

You're the kind of person
You meet at certain dismal dull affairs.
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud,
Running up and down the stairs.
Well, it seems to me that you have seen
Too much in too few years.
And though you've tried, you just can't hide
Your eyes are edged with tears.

You better stop, look around...
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes!
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.

When you were a child
You were treated kind.
But you were never brought up right.
You were always spoiled with a thousand toys
But still you cried all night.
Your mother who neglected you
Owes a million dollars tax.
And your father's still perfecting ways of making ceiling wax.

You better stop, look around.
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes!
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.

Oh, who's to blame, that girl's just insane.
Well nothing I do don't seem to work,
It only seems to make matters worse.

You were still in school
When you had that fool
Who really messed your mind.
And after that you turned your back
On treating people kind.
On our first trip
I tried so hard to rearrange your mind.
But after awhile I realized
You were disarranging mine.

You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.

COCKSUCKER BLUES
(Jagger/Richards)

(This song was given to London/Decca Records by the Stones for their final single that they owed
the label. London/Decca refused to release it.)

Well, I'm a lonesome schoolboy,
and I just came into town.
Yeah, I'm a lonesome schoolboy,
and I just came into town.
Well, I heard so much about London,
I decided to check it out.
Well, I wait in Leicester Square
with a come-hither look in my eye.
Yeah, I'm leaning on Nelsons Column,
but all I do is talk to the lime.
Oh where can I get my cock sucked?
Where can I get my ass fucked?
I may have no money,
but I know where to put it every time.
Well, I asked a young policeman
if he'd only lock me up for the night.
Well, I've had pigs in the farmyard,
some of them, some of them, they're alright
Well, he fucked me with his truncheon
and his helmet was way too tight.
Oh where can I get my cock sucked?
Where can I get my ass fucked?
I ain't got no money,
but I know where to put it every time.
I'm a lonesome schoolboy in your town.
I'm a lonesome schoolboy.

UNDER MY THUMB
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)Under my thumb

The girl who once had me down—
Under my thumb.
The girl who once pushed me around—
It's down to me.
The difference in the clothes she wears,
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb.
Ain't it the truth babe?Under my thumb.
The squirmin' dog who's just had her day—
Under my thumb.
A girl who has just changed her ways.
It's down to me, yes it is.
The way she does just what she's told.
Down to me, the change has come.
She's under my thumb.
A siamese cat of a girl—
Under my thumb.
She's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world.
It's down to me, the way she talks when she's spoken to—
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb.
Ah, take it easy babe. It's down to me.
The way she talks when she's spoken to.
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb.
Her eyes are just kept to herself.
Under my thumb. Well I can still look at someone else.
It's down to me, oh that's what I said.
The way she talks when she's spoken to—
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb.