Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Slide electric guitar: Ron Wood
Pedal steel guitar: Ron Wood
Lead vocal: Keith Richards
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
 

Worked the bars and sideshows along the twilight zone
Only a crowd can make you feel so alone
And it really hit home

Booze and pills and powders, you've got to choose your medicine
Well it's another goodbye to another good friend

(Well) After all is said and done
I've got to move (while) it's still (I've had my) fun
Well let me (us) (I'm going to) walk before they make me (us) run

Watch my taillights fading, there ain't a dry eye in the house
They're laughing and singing
Well they're dancing and drinking as I left town

I'm going to find my way to heaven 'cause I did my time in hell, oh yeah
I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well

Well after all is said and done
I didn't hide, had my fun
And I will walk before they make me run

So if it's all been said and done
I've got to move, I had my fun
Well let me walk before they make me run

I want to walk before they make me run

Before they make me run
 
 

TrackTalk

Keith's got a strong optimistic streak. His last complete song was Happy. And he wrote nearly all of this one except for one or two Oh yeahs in the middle. It's definitely his song.

I wrote most of Before They Make Me Run, but it was Keith's idea.

Rotten Roll was the working title for Before They Make Me Run.

Keith had a bee in his bonnet about that song. He just wanted to go in and get completely absorbed and lost in it, which he did. He got Dave Jordan in and I remember seeing Dave after five days in the studio working with Keith on that same song. When he went in he looked quite tanned and healthy; when he came out he was a greyer shade of white. He couldn't handle it after that.

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