Line-up:

Drums: Ian Thomas
Bass: Phil Spalding
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger & Pete Townshend
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Keyboards: Matt Clifford
Mellotron: Matt Clifford
Drum programming: Matt Clifford & Max Heyes
Percussion: Mick Jagger
Strings and horns (arranged by): Matt Clifford
 

Your friends will say it's self defence
And with no hope of recompense
And anyway it makes no sense
The way you hurt me baby

You always turn the other cheek
Always acted mild and meek
You always played me for a geek
The way you dressed to kill

Why don't just get a gun and shoot (use) it?
Why don't you just get a gun?
Why don't you just get a gun
And shoot it through this heart of mine?
Through this heart of mine

You tried to stretch me on the rack
I saw you laughing when I cracked
You broke my will, you broke my back
On the wheel of uncertainty

You tried to push me to the edge
You wouldn't listen when I begged
Why don't you push me off the ledge?
It's just torture, baby

Why don't you just buy a gun?
Why don't you just buy a gun and shoot it?

Your friends will say it's self defence
They say it's cheap and no expense
 
 

TrackTalk

It started out as a real rock tune. Under My Thumb is almost a soft song compared with this one, which isn't about pistols, but a metaphor.

No, it wasn't really written about (Jerry Hall), you know. That was a really strange song. I'm not someone very violent. I mean, I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport. So you come up with these lines and these melodies that go with them and you think, Where did that come from? Why do I feel so strongly about that? And so you go, Ah well. I'll just carry on writing it and see where I'm going with that, and then you like the result. And you say, Well, that's how I felt that moment. I was angry. That's the way it is. A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day or bad that day.

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