Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Sarah Dash, Lisa Fischer & Bernard
    Fowler
Piano: Chuck Leavell
Organ: Chuck Leavell
Brass: The Kick Horns
Shakers: Mick Jagger
Percussion: Luis Jardim
 

Button your lip, baby, button your coat
Let's go out dancing, go for the throat
Let's bury the hatchet, wipe out the past
Make love together, stay on the path

You're not the only one with mixed emotions
You're not the only ship adrift on this ocean

This coming and going is driving me nuts
This to-ing and fro-ing is hurting my guts
So get off the fence now, you're creasing your butt
Life is a party, let's get out and strut, yes

You're not the only one with mixed emotions
You're not the only ship adrift on this ocean
You're not the only one that's feeling lonesome
You're not the only one with mixed emotions

You're not the only one

Let's grab the world by the scruff of the neck
And drink it down deeply and love it to death
So button your lip, baby, button your coat
Let's go out and dancing, let's rock & roll, yes

Mixed emotions, yeah

You better stick, stick it together, yeah
I want to paddle, yeah (...)
Yeah, fooling around, kicking and dancing
 
 

TrackTalk

I wrote this very early on in the session with Mick in Barbados. People always accuse me of intending some sort of pun here, you know "Mick's demotion", but it isn't true.

I thought about (the lyrics' meaning) afterwards. I was coming back from a session, my old lady, Patti, had just arrived, and I drove over to see her. And I told her how strange it felt, because it suddenly occurred to me that there was infinite room there for subliminal subjection. I realized what we'd laid down there had all the ingredients of an interesting autobiography.

A good song this, but it's very hard to do onstage. You go from the really hard verse to the very melodic chorus, which I like, but you always feel like you're not going to pull it off, like it's speeding up.

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