Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Ron Wood
Electric guitars: Keith Richards (incl. solo) & Ron Wood
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Keyboards: Chuck Leavell
Percussion: Martin Ditcham
 

You're deaf to it, blind to it
Then like a thunder clap
Feel the prickles running up and down your back

Why so divine? The pain of love

You have to work at it, stay with it
Pay for it, bust your ass
Lie for it, cheat for it, forget about your past

You dream of it passionately
You get aroused from it
Feel the hot come dripping on your thigh

Why? Let's simplify the pain of love

You know, sometimes you crave for it, cry for it
Women will die for it
Looking back, cut the crap
Was it really worth the rap?

It's hard to survive the pain of love

Well ain't that right

And I need a time out, time to make my mind up
Substitute a line out, I'll be back next season with a bang

No release from the jail
No parole, no bail
Hard leather, 50 lashes
Heartbreak and money splashes

Well all right

The old maid is rouging up
Applying the final touches
Though she's late for the dance
I'll tell you tonight she's really going to have a ball

She's going to really tie me up

Yeah, the pains of love
Why they say so divine? The pains of love

Don't hurt me...

The pains of love
Yeah, that's what they call it
Baby, tie me up

Tie me up, tie me up, tie me up

Don't abuse it
It's so divine... the pain of love
 
 

TrackTalk

(I)n a way, it's a matter of going back and emphasizing certain things... The Stones really laying it on thick. Yet it's treated in a different way. You can put out Tie You Up, which is kind of funny 'cause of all that shit that went down - some mouthy feminists... It's just a point of view. We only want to highlight it. By highlighting it, we hope that we're gonna make people aware of it. But then you get the very people you're trying to help and they're the first ones who start screaming. Because they take it on that literal level, Oh, "Tie You Up", the Stones just want to enslave you. Most of those chicks probably never had (S&M) anyway.

Pain of Love... is really just a playful song, I think. Just a kind of Lowell Fullsom soul riff with a little smash of S&M... Love is painful sometimes, sex too... or you can make it painful if you want to. Lots of people are fascinated by it because everyone understands the pains of love and parting. And I'm not really an S&M freak or anything. If I were I'd say so... and I'd get a lot of calls (laughs).

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