Let Me Go

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: June 1979-January 1980 & April 1980
Recording locations: Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris, France & Electric Lady Studios, New York City
Producers: The Glimmer Twins        Associate producer & chief engineer: Chris Kimsey
Performed onstage: 1981-82

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Pedal steel guitar: Ron Wood
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
Tambourine: Michael Shrieve
 

You're going to get it straight from the shoulder
Can't you see the party's over?
Let me go

Can't you get it through your thick head
This affair is finished, dead?
Please let me go

I've tried giving you the velvet gloves
I've tried giving you the knockout punch
Hey, let me go

Let me go
Let me go
Let me go
Let me go

I find it hard, hard to be cruel
I find it hard, hard to be cruel with a smile
Don't you? You'll never find that perfect love
That you read about, that you dream about

Maybe I'll become a playboy, hang around in gay bars
And move to the west side of town
You're going to get it straight from the shoulder
Can't you see the party's over?
Hey, let me go

Let me go

So you think I'm giving you the brush off
No, I'm just telling you to shove off
Hey, baby won't you let me go?

This ain't the time to waste my breath
I'm going into sudden death
Hey, let me go

Can't you get it through your thick head
This affair is dead as a dodo?
Hey, baby won't you let me go?
 
The bell has rung and I've called time
The chairs is on the table, out the door, baby
Baby, won't you let me go?
 
Let me go
Baby, won't you let me go?
Let me go
Baby, won't you let me go?

Let me go
Let me go
Let me go
Baby, won't you let me go? Baby, baby, ow...

 

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