Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Ron Wood
Electric guitars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (incl. solo) & Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Bernard Fowler
Piano: Chuck Leavell
Organ: Chuck Leavell
Brass: The Kick Horns
Handclaps: ---
 

Fling you out into orbit
No one's going to hear you shout
The fool ain't going to follow
He don't need to sleaze about

Now you're sad, sad, sad
Sad, sad, sad
But you're going to be fine

The elephant's in the bedroom
Throwing all his weight about
And I'm locked in the bathroom
Your screams are going to drown me out, oh yeah

Oh yeah

I get a cold chill
I get a cool thrill
Are you ready for the gilded cage?
Are you ready for the tears of rage?
Come on, baby, don't let them drown you out

Sad, sad, sad
Mad, mad, mad
Sad, sad, sad
But you're going to be fine

You're going to be fine
 
 

TrackTalk

Sad Sad Sad, I think you're probably right, (we used) one of those small amps. Mick's also playing rhythm guitar, so there's a lot of guitars on that - 3 guitars on the actual track before any overdubs. That's Mick (playing the first thing you hear)... Oh yeah, he can do a fairly good imitation of me (laughs). Mind you, we spent a long time working on the sound. I join in at the very end of the riff there (bar 4). (Mick plays the open 5-string tuning.) Oh yeah. After a few years he realized I only had 5 strings (laughs) - no, he knows all my tricks. He's a good rhythm player now.

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