Album: Emotional Rescue (1980)

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• Well if you call this a life
  Why must I spend mine with you?
  If the show must go on
  Let it go on without you
  So sick and tired hanging around with jerks like you
  
  Who'll tell me those lies
  And let me think they're true? Yeah
  What am I to do
  You want it, I got it too
  
  For the laughs may be cheap
  That's just 'cause the joke's about you
  I'm so sick and tired hanging around with dogs like you
  You're the first to get blamed, always the last bitch to get paid
  
  Oh, tell me those lies
  Let me think they're true yeah
  I heard one or two
  They weren't about me, they weren't about her
  They were all about you
  
  I may miss you
  But missing me just isn't you
  I'm so sick and tired
  Hanging around with dogs
  
  Who told me those lies
  Let me think they're true
  I heard one or two, and they weren't about me, they weren't about her
  They're all about you
  All about you I'm so sick and tired (I'm so sick and tired)
  What should I do
  You want it, want it, want it, you get it, you get it, you get it
  So how come I'm still in love with you? Writer/s: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 11

• Dan from Kansas In Keith's autobiography, "Life", page 432, he says, "There's never one thing a song's about, but in this case if it were about anything, it was probably more about Mick."
• Danny from Your Town, IaIn His Book Keith Says That Despite Rumors, It Is About Mick Jagger.
• Vaughan from Vancouver, CanadaHere'Tis; You can't have a song without a subject and in The Stones case, you can't have a subject without writing Many tunes about the same thing. Speaking of Dylan, yep, Keith sounds like him in this number. But it is The Human Riff himself. I saw him do it in the middle of a Stones show in Van and it was his 50th. Micky J. DID NOT write most of the lyrics to Stones numbers!!! Keith wrote more than his fair share. Angie, (about Anita) is one, Satisfaction is another...etc. (er, Satisfaction was shared Keith started it).
  Now,final note: Mick is the front man, Keith runs the band. Incidently, I saw Keith with the X-pensive Winos and he did 'Gimmie Shelter'.It was good and it was terrifying. To see a man take his song and do it in the spirit of the times...wow
  Keith can hold his own against The Ego, they are partners. They genually put out good stuff and have for decades. Try to have one without the other and you will discover,they are much better together. As Keith said, "He's (Jagger) my wife and he'll say the same. Write On Keith!
• Susan from Toronto, CanadaApparently this song is about Mick. The problems that came to a head in the late 80's were first starting to surface around 1980. Keith told ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE that he had finally kicked heroin around the time of the album "Emotional Rescue," and when he thought Mick would be glad Keith had his strength back and could help run the band, Mick--being a control freak--didn't like having to share the power with the now healthy Keith. Keith wrote some other anti-Mick songs later, but this was one, too. I, personally, love the line, "I may miss you/But missing me just isn't you." That line fits some people I know; people who are kind of emotionless and are incapable of missing anyone.
• Patrick from Greenville, Scthis is one of Keith' worst
• Scott from Ipswich, MaI dunno. This isn't You Don't Move Me, Keef's real F You to Mick, circa 1988. Mick spent the 1970s holding the Stones together, and this was only the second album that Keith was really present for since 1973. I don't think Keith had the reasons to be mad at Mick which he would later have, and share with every interviewer who'd listen.
• Emily from Philadelphia, PaI love Keith: for his dalmation. Yeah, right. The song, I think, is about both Anita and Mick; it was around the time that his relationship with Anita was deteriorating and his frustration with Mick was increasing. Mick, I think, is the "jerk" referenced, where missing someone "just isn't you". The last line I imagine is for Anita, the mother of his two children and common-law wife of ten years.
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaHow would Keith be this mean to his dog? Jeez! It's just your dog!
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaI have a question: How come this sounds like Bob Dylans voice to me?
• Dave from London , CanadaIt's Keith summing up his fractured and ending relationship with Anita.
• Chelsea from Nyc, OrThis tune marked the first in what was to become a trend on future Stonesalbums: Keith doing a ballad to close out the disc.

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